RR, You're right, I thought one thing, wrote another. They're Sunni. 73 DR On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > DR, > ISIS are not Shiite. They are Sunni, bitter enemies of the Shite. Saudi > Arabia is Sunni, as is Al-Queda and the Syrian rebels that the U.S.supplies > arms to. Sunni's are the one's who cut off thieve's hands and stone > adulterers. Sunni's are the sect that Israel supports. > > I assume you blame the Shites because Iran is Shite. You need to do more > study. > > -RR > > -----Original Message----- > From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." > Sent: Jul 31, 2014 9:10 AM > To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way > Throug h Pa lestine > > I was saying what the Koran says according to the Shia. > > DR > On Jul 31, 2014 10:17 AM, "Ron Ristad" <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> DR, >> You've got it backwards. The Bible prophesies that all nations will >> attack Israel but God will come to their side and make them rulers of the >> earth. *This is the very basis of the Zionist movement.* Many >> Christians also believe this >> >> 1 <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/14-1.htm>Behold, a day is coming for >> the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 >> <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/14-2.htm>For I will gather all the >> nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the >> houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the >> rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 >> <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/14-3.htm>Then the LORD will go forth and >> fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.… >> Zechariah 14:1-3 <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/14-14.htm> >> >> I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of >> Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my >> inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the >> nations and divided up my land. >> Joel 3:2 <http://biblehub.com/joel/3-2.htm> >> >> >> On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, >> I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to >> move it will injure themselves. >> Zechariah 12:3 <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-3.htm> >> >> >> On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack >> Jerusalem. >> Zechariah 12:9 <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-9.htm> >> >> >> http://www.evenatthedoors.com/invasionofisrael.htm >> >> -RR >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." >> Sent: Jul 30, 2014 8:30 PM >> To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way >> Throug h Pa lestine >> >> Get rid of Hamas. The people do not care about Palestine. Israeli >> muslims have a much higher standard of living. >> >> Everyone around the Middle East want Jews dead because of the Koran >> prophecy that all Jews must die before the World is conquered for Islam. >> >> 73 >> >> DR >> On Jul 30, 2014 10:20 PM, "Ron Ristad" <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> JS, >>> I think that you are either prejudiced by propaganda and/or have not >>> studied the situation objectively from all sides. The people of Gaza do not >>> deserve to be locked in a prison. The people of the West Bank do not >>> deserve to have their homes bulldozed so Jews can build houses on their >>> land. 99.9% of Palestinians are good decent people who are just trying to >>> get on with their lives. >>> >>> -RR >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx> >>> >Sent: Jul 30, 2014 7:25 PM >>> >To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way >>> Throug h Pa lestine >>> > >>> >RR >>> > >>> >I grew up in similar circumstances. Went to a public high school with a >>> student body of fortune five hundred kids, gas station attendant's kids, >>> blacks and hispanics. We all got along. So no argument about that. And of >>> course spent years at sea and in foreign countries like you. But my take on >>> Israel has changed since I first studied the Arab Israeli conflict in >>> college. I'm still ambivalent about the original Zionist rationale for >>> taking that land. Even from this vantage point of time, it's hard to make a >>> moral justification for it other than the Holocaust. Especially since >>> Britain offered Uganda to the Jews for a homeland which was refused by the >>> Zionists for ideological reasons. Which brings us to the current situation >>> where I think we part company. I may be wrong but I see Hamas as vicious, >>> cynical Islamic terrorists, willing to sacrifice their own children. That >>> alone eliminates any moral equivalency to a country that is trying to >>> defend itself. So I think that the immediate situation needs to be >>> separated from the historical. Whether the creation of Israel was right or >>> wrong, it exists and it's people (like all others) deserves life, liberty >>> and the pursuit of happiness. You just can't call self defense, murder. Or >>> war either for that matter. >>> > >>> >JS >>> > >>> >---------- Original Message ---------- >>> >From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way >>> Through Pa lestine >>> >Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:27:51 -0400 (EDT) >>> > >>> >JS, >>> >It sure seems like a moral failure to me. It's not the America that I >>> grew up in. I never heard anybody in my family or any of my neighbors ever >>> justify the murder of innocent people for any reason, even in wartime. I >>> grew up in Detroit that has the highest muslim population in the U.S. and >>> they were all friendly even if the women dressed strange. In school the >>> muslims had their own group, as did the blacks and the Jews but I don't >>> remember there being any racial tensions ever. As a seaman I have visited >>> countries of every race and religion and never had a bad experience ever. >>> That kind of hatred only comes from governments and the mainstream media as >>> propaganda. Sadly most people believe anything the government and >>> mainstream media tells them, even to the point of hating people that have >>> never done anything to harm them and they have never even met. >>> > >>> >-RR >>> > >>> >---orginal Message----- >>> >>From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx> >>> >>Sent: Jul 30, 2014 1:12 PM >>> >>To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >>Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way >>> Through Pa lestine >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>Doesn't pass the humor and wit test. Nor a hell of a lot of the "fact" >>> test either. No wonder he didn't want to debate the boys at Oxford. >>> >> >>> >>JS >>> >>---------- Original Message ---------- >>> >>From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>To: undisclosed-recipients:; >>> >>Subject: [sparkscoffee] Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way >>> Through Palestine >>> >>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:58:51 -0600 (GMT-06:00) >>> >> >>> >>The Moral Failure Of The West >>> >> >>> >>By Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury >>> >> >>> >>Readers are asking for my take on the Israel-Gaza situation, and, >>> believe it or not, Oxford University’s famous debating society, the Oxford >>> Union, invited me to debate the issue. >>> >> >>> >>I replied to the Oxford Union that I was unprepared to take >>> responsibility for the Palestinians without undergoing the extensive >>> preparation that an Oxford Union debate deserves and requires. Unless >>> things have changed since my time at Oxford, one prevails in a Union debate >>> by anticipating every argument of one’s opponent and smashing the arguments >>> with humor and wit. Facts seldom, if ever, carry the day, and sometimes not >>> even wit and humor if the audience is already committed to the outcome by >>> the prevailing propaganda. There is no time or energy in my overfull >>> schedule for such preparation plus time away and jet lag. >>> >> >>> >>Moreover, I am not an expert on Israel’s conquest and occupation of >>> Palestine. I know more than most people. I was rescued from Zionist >>> propaganda by Israeli historians, such as Ilan Pappe, by Jewish >>> intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, by documentary >>> film makers, such as John Pilger, by Israeli journalists such as Uri Avnery >>> and the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and by an Israeli houseguest who is an >>> Israeli member of an Israeli peace group that opposes Israeli destruction >>> of Palestinian homes, villages, and orchards in order to build apartment >>> blocks for settlers. >>> >> >>> >>There is only one take on the current Israeli slaughter of >>> Palestinians, which Netanyahu, the demonic Israeli leader, declares will be >>> a “protracted campaign” this time. We are witnessing yet again Israeli war >>> crimes that are supported by the Great Moral West that is so concerned >>> about the deaths of 290 passengers on MH-17 that they are about to drive >>> the world to a major war, while Palestinian casualties pile up so fast that >>> they are out of date by the time you put the numbers in a column. So far >>> more than 1,200 deaths, with injuries to 2,000 children, 1,170 women, and >>> 257 elderly. >>> >> >>> >>Reading the Western Media, watching Western TV, and listening to >>> Western radio, one is left with the propaganda that the Palestinians are to >>> blame for the Israeli attack on Gaza, just as one is left with the >>> propaganda that the Malaysian airliner deaths are Russia’s fault. There is >>> no evidence, but propaganda does not require evidence. Just repetition. >>> >> >>> >>The Gaza strip, a ghetto full of Palestinians evicted from their homes >>> and villages in the West Bank, is one of the most densely populated areas >>> on earth where life with scant resources is difficult. Israel is currently >>> in the process of shrinking Gaza by 44 percent, and Senate Majority Leader >>> Harry Reid, a Democrat, is preparing another “emergency” aid package >>> consisting of US tax dollars to finance Israel’s slaughter and compression >>> of Palestinian lives. (See: >>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/as-israel-enforces-its-buffer-zone-gaza-shrinks-by-40-per-cent.html >>> , http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39255.htm , and >>> http://news.antiwar.com/2014/07/28/senate-leader-israel-may-need-more-us-aid-for-war/print/ >>> ) >>> >> >>> >>One would think that the Great Moral West would be discussing >>> sanctions on Israel and on Washington’s stooge government in Kiev, which is >>> bombing civilian homes, apartment complexes, and infrastructure in >>> provinces where the people object to the Russophobic government installed >>> by Washington in place of the one that they elected. But the Great Moral >>> West only aids the perpetrators of death and destruction, not the victims. >>> >> >>> >>Palestinians are being dispossessed and exterminated exactly as were >>> the native American Indians. On occasion Israeli officials have said that >>> they are only following America’s lead in clearing the land of >>> undesirables. This is my take on what is one of the West’s great moral >>> failings: >>> >> >>> >>Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way Through Palestine >>> >> >>> >>As Zionists have endeavored to teach the world for decades, Israel is >>> not subject to criticism. Only Jew-haters, anti-semites, and people who >>> want to gas Jews and boil them in oil criticize Israel. Israel is above >>> criticism, because Israelis are God’s Chosen People and despite being God’s >>> Chosen People suffered the Holocaust. >>> >> >>> >>This means that the Israeli government, like the one in Washington, >>> can do whatever it wants and remain above criticism. >>> >> >>> >>Since the 1940s Zionists have been stealing Palestine from the >>> Palestinians. The majority of Palestinians have been removed from their >>> homes and their country. They exist in refugee camps in other countries and >>> 1.5 million are concentrated in the Gaza Ghetto, which is blockaded by >>> Israel on one end and by the Washington paid Egyptians on the other. >>> >> >>> >>This makes it convenient for Israel from time to time to attack the >>> civilian population and civilian infrastructure in Gaza with military >>> force. So far in Israel’s latest war crime, Israel has murdered more than >>> 1,200 Palestinians, largely women and children. You will seldom see the >>> photos of the destruction in the American media, but RT provides a few >>> glimpses. http://rt.com/news/175852-gaza-ceasefire-deathtoll-thousand/ >>> >> >>> >>Israel is always the aggressor but always takes the role of the >>> victim. Palestinian women and children are all subhumans–”snakes” as one >>> Israeli politician put it–who sneak into Israel through secret tunnels >>> (whose existence is akin to Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction) >>> wearing suicide bomb belts and blow up innocent Israelis along with >>> themselves while Israelis sit in cafes peacefully discussing philosophical >>> issues and the latest news. To stop this slaughter of innocent Israelis, >>> Israel has to blow up Palestinian hospitals, schools, and civilian homes >>> and apartment blocks. >>> >> >>> >>These unmistakable war crimes, these crimes against humanity are all >>> ignored by the great moral arbiters of the world–the Governments of the >>> West who are shaking their fingers not at Israel but their fists at Russia. >>> >> >>> >>Western governments ignore Israel’s war crimes but not all Western >>> peoples comply with this neglect. Many thousands of demonstrators against >>> Israel have been in the streets in South America, London, Paris, Germany, >>> Dublin, and Israel’s own Tel Aviv. >>> http://rt.com/news/175860-london-gaza-protest-march/ But don’t look for >>> much reporting of these demonstrations in the American presstitute media. >>> >> >>> >>The American presstitute media is focused on those who died in the >>> downing of the Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, in order to blame >>> those 290 deaths on Russia. As far as the American presstitute media is >>> concerned, the murder of 1,200 Palestinian deaths is not happening or if it >>> is, the Palestinians deserve it for responding to Israel’s oppression by >>> firing in frustration primitive rockets that seldom, if ever, hit their >>> targets. >>> >> >>> >>What is another 1,200 murdered Palestinians? Who cares? Not Washington >>> or the British PM in Whitehall and certainly not the Israelis. As far as >>> Israel and the Great Moral West is concerned, 1,200 murdered Palestinians >>> amount to nothing. They are not even chafe in the wind. >>> >> >>> >>The last time Israel attacked the civilians in Gaza, a distinguished >>> Israeli jurist, himself a Zionist, prepared a case for the UN that Israel >>> had committed war crimes. On Israel’s orders the craven but very obedient >>> US Congress passed a resolution denouncing the distinguished jurist for >>> defaming the pure and innocent Israeli government. The pressure from >>> Washington and Israel on the jurist broke his commitment to truth, and he >>> retracted his findings. >>> >> >>> >>This is what the Israel Lobby and the craven American presstitute >>> media do to everyone who criticizes Israel’s crimes against humanity and >>> Washington’s protection of Israel’s crimes. Anytime you see a person >>> attacked by the Israel Lobby, you know for certain that the person under >>> attack is the salt of the earth. The distinctive mark of a moral human >>> being is to be attacked by the Israel Lobby and the presstitute American >>> media. >>> >> >>> >>While Israel murders Palestinians in Gaza with attacks on hospitals, >>> schools, and civilian apartment blocks, Washington and its puppets in Kiev >>> attack civilians in apartment blocks in the former Russian provinces of >>> Ukraine who object to Washington’s overthrow of the democratically elected >>> government in Ukraine and Washington’s installation of a Russophobic >>> Russian-hating government in its place. >>> >> >>> >>Washington has declared those in Ukraine who object to Washington’s >>> takeover of their country to be “terrorists” and is seeking legislation >>> that will permit US troops legally to enter Ukraine to suppress the >>> “terrorists.” >>> >> >>> >>David Ward, a member of the British Parliament, who has the right as a >>> British citizen and member of Parliament to express his opinion, said that >>> if he lived in Gaza under Israeli oppression, he would likely fire a rocket >>> into Israel. >>> >> >>> >>The British media and government is yet to criticize Israel for its >>> crimes, but instantly attacked Ward for his “vile comments.” A Conservative >>> member of Parliament, Nadhim Zahawi wrote the Metropolitan Police demanding >>> an investigation into Ward’s statement “as a matter of urgency.” The >>> Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps declared Ward’s statement to be an >>> “incitement to violence,” a felony. The craven Labour Party declared Ward’s >>> opinion to be “so vile and irresponsible” that “it defied belief.” >>> http://rt.com/uk/174920-david-ward-israel-tweet/ >>> >> >>> >>The Liberal Democrats of which Ward is a member “utterly condemned” >>> Ward’s remarks and declared that Ward would be subject to disciplinary >>> hearings and may permanently be expelled from the party. >>> >> >>> >>There you have it. A member of Parliament in the country that invented >>> freedom of speech expresses an honest opinion, and he is dead meat. Ward’s >>> harmless remarks killed no one. The Israelis with weapons supplied by >>> Washington have, at this time of writing murdered more than 1,200 people. >>> But it is Ward who must be restrained, not Israel. Ward’s remarks are >>> declared “vile and irresponsible” but not Israel’s murder of 1,200 people. >>> >> >>> >>The US and UK pretend to be countries that are not afraid of the >>> truth, where there is free inquiry and freedom to express one’s views, but >>> it is all a great lie. >>> >> >>> >>The US and UK are the two greatest threats to free speech on the face >>> of the earth. In the UK no truth contrary to the line is permissible. In >>> the US people who speaks the truth is put on the Watch List. >>> >> >>> >>How much longer will the governments of the rest of the world regard >>> the US and UK as homes of free speech and uplifting Western morality? >>> >> >>> >>In America the success of Israeli propaganda, never challenged of >>> course by the US media, exceeds the success of Washington’s own propaganda. >>> Most Americans believe that Palestinian women and children are outfitted >>> with explosive suicide belts and that “the snakes,” as they are described >>> by Israeli politicians, walk into Israeli cafes and blow everyone up >>> including themselves. >>> >> >>> >>The fact of the matter is that Palestinians cannot get into Israel. >>> Gaza is blockaded as are the few remaining Palestinian settlements in the >>> West Bank. Israel has stolen almost all of Palestine. The few Palestinian >>> settlements still permitted to exist are cut off by a massive wall from >>> Israel and from each other by barbed wire and check points, cut off from >>> hospitals and schools, from water, and from their fields and olive groves, >>> which are being destroyed to make room for settlers‘ apartment blocks. >>> >> >>> >>People this hemmed in are helpless, and the extreme right-wing Israeli >>> settlers are moving into the few remaining Palestinian settlements evicting >>> the Palestinians from their properties with the aid of US-provided >>> Caterpillar tractors especially designed for uprooting Palestinian olive >>> groves and demolishing Palestinian houses, just like the Caterpillar >>> tractor that the Israelis ran over US citizen Rachel Corrie, murdering this >>> protesting US citizen in cold blood. Yes, you are correct, the Great Moral >>> US government did nothing about it. Israel learned when it murdered the >>> crew of the USS Liberty in 1967 that Israel had carte blanche from >>> Washington to murder US citizens. >>> >> >>> >>When you view the photos of Palestinians who have undergone an Israeli >>> attack, what do you see? You see unarmed people crying, hugging dead >>> children in their arms and one another. You never see a resolute armed >>> people prepared to repel the next Israeli attack. You see devastated >>> hospitals, schools, and apartment complexes and Palestinians in tears and >>> no weapons. >>> >> >>> >>What is striking about the success of Israeli propaganda is its >>> success when all evidence is that Palestinians are pacifists, incapable of >>> resistance. The bulk of the people in Gaza are refugees from the West Bank >>> where their land and homes were stolen by the Great Democratic State of >>> Israel. The Israeli destruction of Palestine has been going on for almost >>> seven decades. And still Palestinians are not armed and have no effective >>> military units. >>> >> >>> >>After seven decades the Palestinian people remain unarmed. Hamas has a >>> few ineffective weapons, but the people themselves are unarmed. Their >>> response to the Israeli murders of their children, wives, husbands, >>> brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, and friends is to cry. This is not the >>> response of a warlike people. >>> >> >>> >>In contrast, there are reports that Israeli civilians sit atop the >>> hill overlooking Gaza on sofas that they bring along with their drinks and >>> food and watch in glee, clapping and cheering as Israeli bombs destroy >>> Palestinians in their homes, children in their schools, and the ill in >>> hospitals. If this is the true face of “the only democracy in the Middle >>> East,” it is the face of evil. >>> >> >>> >>The view brainwashed into the West that Palestinians are a threat to >>> Israel is absurd. If Palestinians are a threat and a danger to Israel, how >>> is it possible that Palestinians are locked away into sealed ghettos in the >>> remnants of their own country or into refugee camps in foreign countries? >>> >> >>> >>As Israel’s most distinguished historian, Ilan Pappe, has related, the >>> story of Israel is the story of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” This >>> story has been hidden by Western “moral” governments and by a corrupt >>> Western media and “Christian” priests from Western populations that, >>> possibly, would have objected, but who are now too brainwashed and >>> disinformed to know. >>> >> >>> >>-RR >>> >>____________________________________________________________ >>> >>NEVER eat this fish >>> >>Also discover 15 foods that DAMAGE your heart health >>> >>http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/53d943bedfad543be61dbst01vuc >>> >> >>> > >>> >>> >>>