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As Israeli Forces Open Fire on Unarmed Palestinians, Jimmy Panetta Helps "Congratulate" Israel

by Santa Cruz News
Congressman Jimmy Panetta, who represents California's central coast, was a member of a Democratic congressional delegation that visited Israel on March 26 to congratulate the nation on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of its government. “Our delegation is pleased to be able to extend the congratulations of the American people to the people of Israel as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Jewish state this spring,” Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the delegation stated ahead of the March 26 visit. “There is no greater political accomplishment in the 20th Century than the establishment of the State of Israel,” she stated on behalf of the Democrats. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that he had an "excellent meeting" in Jerusalem with the congressional delegation, and included a picture of himself with Panetta and the other delegation members.
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As Panetta was meeting with Israeli officials, that country's defense forces were planning to shoot Palestinians in Gaza during the Land Day demonstration planned later that week to coincide with Israel's founding, which Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or "catastrophe". In 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland in to make way for the establishment of the state of Israel.

As reported on Mondoweiss.net, Israel's army announced on March 26 that “dozens of snipers" would be deployed at the demonstration in Gaza, a decision that eventually lead to a bloody massacre against unarmed Palestinians on March 30, leaving 17 demonstrators dead and at least 1,416 Palestinians wounded. 758 were shot by live ammunition, 148 were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets, and others were injured by tear gas, concussion grenades, and other "less lethal" weapons.

On the same day as the massacre, March 30, Panetta released a public statement on his congressional website, and through social media, describing his visit to Israel with the delegation. Panetta's statements omitted any reference to the bloodshed in Gaza. He instead posted a benign photo of the delegation and him meeting with "Palestinian youth in Jerusalem".

The congressional delegation also visited Afghanistan and Jordan, and Panetta's public statements following the visit focus on the regional military security of the United States in the Middle East.

“Congress has an important oversight role for our national security, including our counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East, and needs to ensure that our policies and resources are in place to keep our nation safe,” Panetta said in a public press release.

Panetta's press release continues to seemingly justify the length of the war in Afghanistan, the longest war waged by the United States.

“Having served in Afghanistan, this trip was a great opportunity to return, see, and assess the current conditions on the ground as well as the needs associated with Operation Resolute Support. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee and co-chair of the National Security Task Force, it was an important visit to evaluate our near and long-term strategy in the region. Our trip provided my fellow Members of Congress and me with the first-hand experience and understanding that we need to work on smart, strategic, and strong national security policies regarding the Middle East," Panetta's March 30 press release states.

Panetta served as an officer in the military and was stationed in Afghanistan in 2007. According to his congressional biography, he was assigned to a "special operations task force" as an intelligence officer responsible for "finding high value enemy targets".

Panetta represents California's 20th congressional district, which includes all of Monterey and San Benito Counties, and parts of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties. The voting population that voted him in is largely anti-war.

On their website, the Monterey Peace & Justice Center is encouraging the public to speak out against the massacre that occurred during the Land Day demonstrations, and is urging community members to contact Panetta, who they say has been "supporting Israel".

In addition to meeting with Netanyahu. the congressional delegation met with Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who told them the nation of Iran poses the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Lieberman also thanked the US Congress for its long-term support of Israel, and for approving this year more than $700 million for the Israeli anti-missile defense system.

The Israel Trip highlights Panetta's expertise at creating public statements that pivot from a strong advocacy for "national security" positions, and are tempered by softer, more vague statements in support of "peace".

The Land Day protests in Palestine will continue until May 15, and in the last twelve hours at least seven more Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army, and hundreds more have been wounded by Israeli gunfire.

Jimmy Panetta remains silent.


Photo: Jimmy Panetta and the Democratic congressional delegation meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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by Register Peace & Freedom or Green
There is absolutely no difference between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to supporting the war machine, including but not limited to Nazi Israel, and supporting the Nazi gang known as the CIA. James Panetta, Democrat, a former killer of Afghan people for Nazi USA, is the son of Leon Panetta, Democrat, War Secretary and CIA Director. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Panetta
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta
The CIA was created by 350 German Nazi spies paid the by Rockefeller and Mellon interests. See https://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html#GN
They have been busy torturing and murdering labor organizers and all other progressive activists around the world on behalf of the profits of the US capitalist class.

As to Afghanistan, it is a mineral rich country and a pathway for a Caspian Sea oil pipeline. The United States illegally invaded and occupied Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 using the 9/11 Inside Job as a pretext for finding their old CIA agent, then sick with kidney disease, Osama bin Laden, who was the prearranged fall guy for the 9/11 Inside Job. Bin Laden died in December 2001 of kidney disease and Marfan's syndrome, and the US remains in Afghanistan, killing the people of Afghanistan, promoting a torture camp, harvesting opium and stealing Afghanistan's mineral wealth. For more on the US in Afghanistan, see
https://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Afghanistan&x=8&y=9
For information on Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, see: “The War is Worth Waging: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas” by Michel Chossudovsky, 8/22/17 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-is-worth-waging-afghanistan-s-vast-reserves-of-minerals-and-natural-gas/19769

Democrats are just robot voters, the same as the Republicans. So long as the warmonger is a member of their own party, they vote for him or her.

Nazi Israel has been perpetrating atrocities since its inception 70 years ago, with the proud approval of the entire Democratic and Republican Party at every level of office.

If you want peace, the end of US aid to Nazi Israel, the end of the torture machine known as the CIA, free socialized medicine for all who live here from cradle to grave, from education to all from preschool through university, and free housing for all, you have to vote Peace & Freedom or Green. We cannot have guns and butter. Both Peace & Freedom and the Green Party need your votes and registration in this governor's election year in California.

You can register online at https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
Peace & Freedom Party’s candidate for governor is Gloria LaRiva. For more on her and other P&F candidates, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/national/election-2018/candidates-2018
http://www.lariva2018.com/lariva_news
The Green Party candidate for governor is Josh Jones. See:
http://www.josh4gov.org/
There are other Green Party candidates. See http://www.gp.org/2018_candidates
For more information, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org
by Stop US Aid to Israel
The subject of the main article is the latest pro-Israel Democrat, James Panetta, being selected for office, while his constituents claim to be anti-war. His own record of killing Afghans for oil and munitions profits, the only reason the military exists, defined him as a war criminal, but the robot Democratic Party voters ignored that and voted for him because he was a Democrat.

As to the current site of genocide, Gaza, it has gas offshore, so Nazi Israel is trying to clear Gaza of Palestinians to have free access to the gas. See Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680

Arabs are Semites. This writer happens to be of Jewish descent and supports organizations filled with Jews which have been banned from Nazi Israel because they refuse to support genocide of Palestinians, torture of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land.

The Zionists drag in some religious nut to claim that condemning anyone for supporting Nazi Israel is anti-Semitism. Let's start from the beginning: Religion is superstition; science means knowledge; evolution is a fact, abortion is a right, gay marriage is a civil right and there is no supreme being as labor creates all wealth.

Here is what religion does in Nazi Israel, a theocratic, anti-women, racist, US military base and American police training ground:
“Israeli airport rejects ad urging women not to give up seats to ultra-Orthodox men” 4/2/18
https://www.rt.com/news/422993-israeli-airport-haredi-women/

The Zionists are loosing the demographic war to promote an exclusive Jews-only, openly racist state which is why they are currently engaged in open slaughter of unarmed Palestinians before the world's eyes, all ILLEGAL, while the world does nothing, when they should arrest the entire Israeli political and military leadership for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

We, the American taxpayers, are paying $4 billion a year above the table to Nazi Israel to be an American military base to protect US oil profits in the Middle East and all other profits around the world, and to be US police training ground. For more, see:

“US and Israeli-Made Weapons in Hands of ISIS Terrorists. Discovered by Syrian Government Forces” by Samer Hussein, 5/26/17 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-and-israeli-made-weapons-in-hands-of-isis-terrorists-discovered-by-syrian-government-forces/5591949

Israel Assisted in US attack on Syria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9QnbcUOwWA

Meyer Lansky, a Jewish gangster, was a proud Zionist and contributed money and guns to the founding of Israel. See:
Cuba Pre-1959: The Rise and Fall of a U.S. Backed Dictator with Links to the Mob by Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 23, 2015 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-pre-1959-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-u-s-backed-dictator-with-links-to-the-mob/5464738

“Israel Aiding Mexico’s Development With More Arms, Drones and Spy Software” by Whitney Webb, 9/19/17 at
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-aids-mexico-development-with-arms-drones-and-spy-software/232080/

END THE DEADLY EXCHANGE: http://deadlyexchange.org/updates/
Zionists in New York City on June 4, 2017 celebrating 50 year illegal invasion and occupation of West Bank and Gaza, as well as celebrating the 69 year occupation of Historic Palestine, now temporarily called Israel, met with 100 anti-Zionist LGBT Jewish community, chanting, singing, playing musical instruments and No Pride in Apartheid signs with the rainbow colors. Some 7 who tried to walk in the parade with anti-Zionist signs were attacked by the Zionists and arrested by the police. The deadly exchange is the cooperation between US and Israeli military and police. See a good movie showing this ridiculous, nationalist, provincial parade and the glorious parade dissenters, who did get to sit down in a line for a while, plus the costumed, musical instrument performing, dancing protesters, who only needed more people for their milestone protest, unthinkable not so long ago, at:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40870-no-apartheid-in-our-name-lgbt-jewish-groups-block-celebrate-israel-parade

US Police train in Israel:

“Atlanta mayor rejects demand to end Israel police training” by Rania Khalek, 7/21/16 at
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/atlanta-mayor-rejects-demand-end-israel-police-training

“Israel-trained police “occupy” Missouri after killing of black youth” by Rania Khalek, 8/15/14 at https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-trained-police-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth

http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html: Linked to US police & soldiers train in Israel: “The Ferguson/Palestine Connection” by Kristian Davis Bailey, 8/19/14 at:
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/the-fergusonpalestine-connection-403#axzz3hxNNSlLi

“Israel Security Forces Are Training American Cops Despite History of Rights Abuses” by Alice Speri, 9/15/17 at:
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/15/police-israel-cops-training-adl-human-rights-abuses-dc-washington/

Israel’s profiteering in supplying spy tools and weapons, as well as training American police:
https://indypendent.org/2017/06/the-spoils-of-war/

The torture perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians with US tax dollars in its efforts to steal Palestinian land was described with illustrations in Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein (2005) University of California Press, particularly in the chapter, Chapter 6, Israel’s Abu Ghraib.

Anti-Defamation League, a staunch Zionist organization, Supports Racist Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri and New York Police who choked Eric Garner to death after he protested 11 times that he can’t breathe. See
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PgWafnuqHRYkwN-y0h22g4PDCiyNrNUWbdOm36dDwYg/viewform?c=0&w=1


The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)

Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $4 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).

The Israeli Military State starts in childhood at:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/indoctrinating-israeli-youths-to-be.html

The recent history of Nazi Israel supporting open Nazis is here:

"Ukraine: Israeli Special Forces Unit under Neo-Nazi Command Involved in Maidan Riots" by Michel Chossudovsky, 3/3/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-israeli-special-forces-unit-under-neo-nazi-command-involved-in-maidan-riots/5371725

Zionist Supporters of “Good Night Left Side” European fascists at:
"Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch" by David Sheen, 7/15/14 at
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-calls-palestinian-blood-ring-fever-pitch/13578
The screenshot enlarges the whole short video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzd4pytX7bg

“How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis” by Max Blumenthal, 11/18/14 at
http://www.alternet.org/world/how-israel-lobby-protected-ukrainian-neo-nazis

“Why Has Israel Banned Jewish Leftists But Not Members Of Nazi-linked Groups?” by Natasha Roth, 1/9/18 at
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/09/why-has-israel-banned-jewish-leftists-not-members-nazi-linked-groups
Members of fascist organizations are welcomed to Israel.

“Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer says he turns to Israel “for guidance”” by Ali Abunimah, 10/20/17 at
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/neo-nazi-richard-spencer-says-he-turns-israel-guidance

Nazi Israel was founded by Pro-Nazi Germany terrorists and is today lead by terrorists supported by Nazi USA, also a settler colony, founded on killing its native inhabitants, as Nazi Israel is doing. Here is the history of Nazi Germany's links to the founders of Nazi Israel.

Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
https://archive.org/details/ZionismInTheAgeOfTheDictators

The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/index.htm

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1

The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7
http://www.transferagreement.com/

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3

December 4, 1948 letter to New York Times from Albert Einstein and others condemning Zionist terrorist Menachem Begin and the massacre at Deir Yassin:
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Albert%20Einstein%201948%20Letter%20New%20York%20Times%20Nakba.htm

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