A senior official in Jerusalem said that the reason that the
minister's visa request was turned down was because he intended to pass
through Ben-Gurion International Airport for the purposes of visiting
the Palestinian Authority, rather than visiting Israel.
Another reason, the official said, was Nzimande's radically anti-Israel stance.
Nzimande is a communist who serves in the South
African parliament as a member of the ANC coalition. In the past he has
supported an academic boycott against Israel and on one occasion he
demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Pretoria.
Nzimande was invited to Ramallah by his Palestinian
counterpart to promote research collaboration between the University of
Johannesburg and Palestinian institutions in Palestine. He was due to
be there from April 25 – 29.
The minister responded harshly to the decision not
to give him a visa. "The Israeli government is trying to use all the
means at its disposal to hide its atrocities against the Palestinians
and to ensure that only the smallest number of people see what is really
happening in the land under its control," he told the South African
media.
Nzimande added that he would call on all higher
education institutions in his country to immediately freeze their
contacts with Israeli universities.
At this stage, Nzimande has not received the
support of South African President Jacob Zuma or that country's foreign
ministry. Until now, no government minister has come to his defense.
But the South African Communist party came to Nzimande's defense and that drew a strong reaction from Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman.
“The wild attacks by the South African Community Party against Israel
following our refusal to allow the higher education minister to pass
through Israel en route to the Palestinian Authority is hypocrisy,”
Liberman said.
“It was only a few days ago that a violent, racist
attack was perpetrated against foreigners in Johannesburg,” the foreign
minister said. “There was also vandalism and destruction of property.
The end result was many deaths and wounded.”
“As part of the
rioting, South African police fired rubber-coated bullets and stun
grenades at other migrants from neighboring African countries,” Liberman
said. “These events and others prove once again that South Africa
remains a country with serious problems of racism and violence.”
“That’s
why it would behoove the South African government and the Communist
Party to stop preaching morality and attacking Israel, which is a great
democracy that is exceptionally coping with threats and terrorist
elements while making maximal effort to preserve human rights and
international norms of behavior.”
If South Africa was forced to
contend with Israel’s security predicament, “blood would be awash in the
streets there,” Liberman said.
“In this light, it’s no surprise
that the Communist Party prefers the Palestinians over Israel,” he
said. “It is a case of like attracting like.”
I can think of some other politicians who think the same way as Nzimande. One of them is the President of the United States. But as I have said many times, no country is obligated to allow unfettered access to its borders. Certainly not Israel.
After Obama was elected in his first
term as president the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave
a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January
of 2009. Ignored by the West as usual, Putin gave insightful and helpful
advice to help the world economy and saying the world should avoid the
Soviet mistake.
Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a
2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies
of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love
in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria.
He plans his next war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals
who get in the way.
Putin said regarding the military,
"...instead of solving the
problem, militarization pushes it to a deeper level. It draws away from
the economy immense financial and material resources, which could have
been used much more efficiently elsewhere."
Well, any normal individual understands that as true but liberalism is a psychosis
. O'bomber even keeps the war going along the Mexican border with
projects like "fast and furious" and there is still no sign of ending
it. He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist
Manifesto without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult
of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance.
They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin
and Stalin in Russia. Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same
drink of illusion.
Reading Putin's speech without knowing
the author, one would think it was written by Reagan or another
conservative in America. The speech promotes smaller government and less
taxes. It comes as no surprise to those who know Putin as a
conservative. Vladimir Putin went on to say:
"...we are reducing taxes on production, investing money in the economy. We are optimizing state expenses.
The second possible mistake
would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country
and the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
There are no grounds to suggest that by putting the responsibility over to the state, one can achieve better results.
Unreasonable expansion of the
budget deficit, accumulation of the national debt - are as destructive
as an adventurous stock market game.
During the time of the Soviet
Union the role of the state in economy was made absolute, which
eventually lead to the total non-competitiveness of the economy. That
lesson cost us very dearly. I am sure no one would want history to
repeat itself."
President Vladimir Putin could never
have imagined anyone so ignorant or so willing to destroy their people
like Obama much less seeing millions vote for someone like Obama. They
read history in America don't they? Alas, the schools in the U.S. were
conquered by the Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving
the way for their Communist presidents. Obama has bailed out those
businesses that voted for him and increased the debt to over 16 trillion
with an ever increasing unemployment rate especially among blacks and
other minorities. All the while promoting his agenda.
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Friday that the United States has lost track of 'some' Syrian chemical weapons. How many? They're not saying. And no one knows whether the weapons are in the control of Syrian rebels, Iranians in the country helping the pro-Assad forces or someone else (Hat Tip: Sunlight).
“There has been intelligence that there have been some moves that have
taken place. Where exactly that’s taken place, we don’t know.” Panetta
said, in a Pentagon press briefing.
Panetta said that the “main sites” in Syria storing chemical weapons
with which the Pentagon is most concerned remain secured by the Syrian
military. But there is “some intelligence” that “limited” movements of
weapons from other sites have occurred, he said, “for the Syrians to
better secure what they – the chemicals.”
“But with regards to the movement of some of this and whether or not
they’ve been able to locate some of it,” he said of U.S. intelligence,
“we just don’t know.”
Following the briefing, Pentagon officials sought to clarify the extent of their grasp
on the status of Syria's stockpiles. "We've never had perfect visibility into
the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile, but we have excellent information
that accounts for most of it," said a senior defense offiical,
speaking on background. "We've seen it move, and we've been able
to make an assessment as to why it's been moved. This is a highly
distributed network of chemical weapons sites, and we have a good grasp
of what's going on inside that network."
What could go wrong? Well, that's not the end of it. It seems there's a lot about Mr. Panetta that we didn't know. Until now.
Here's Trevor Loudon addressing an enthusiastic crowd at the 2012 Gathering of
the Eagles crowd event in Turner, OR. Trevor is a libertarian activist
and political researcher from Christchurch, New Zealand and is founder
and editor of KeyWiki.org, a rapidly growing website with the goal of
unlocking the covert side of U.S. and Global politics. He is the author
of "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within". "Trevor Loudon does the job
that few in the media ever even attempt. This eye-opening book is proof
that one person really can make a difference, especially when they have
no agenda other than finding the truth." ~ Glenn Beck, #1 New York Times
Bestselling Author and Founder of GBTV.
Trevor Loudon has an awful lot to tell us about Leon Panetta, Barack Obama and the Communist party.
The group appears to be a new coalition, made of up “realists” like the anti-Israel duo, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer- both of whom will speak at their conference, and those who are old style anti-American activists from the 60’s joined by old Communists and their fellow-traveling allies from the heyday of the Soviet Union’s existence. The group endorses and supports the BDS movement, and favors working to restore the influence of the Goldstone Report, which has lost some of its momentum due to Judge Goldstone’s recent repudiation of it. Its last event will be what it calls a “creative action” outside of the AIPAC gala dinner, at which Netanyahu will be speaking. (I will be covering this for PJM, and will report on it that evening.)
Now let us take a look at the group’s sponsors and few listed members. Their list includes The International Solidarity Movement- the backers of Hamas, The US Boat to Gaza, CODEPINK, the old pacifist left-wing group Fellowship of Reconciliation, and seemingly hundreds of anti-Zionist, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian entities, many of which may be inflated names with few actual members. Two groups that stands out, however, are The US Peace Council and The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. The latter was founded in 1915 by old Progressives and peace activists. Its US branch gradually morphed into a front for the American Communist Party, whose activists enrolled in it for their “mass work” and effectively took control of it in the 1950’s and after. Its US branch today heralds its support for what it calls its “Cuba and Bolivarian Alliance Committee,” a program meant to gather American support for the Castro regime in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. You will find little on it about peace and freedom, and a great deal about their proud pro-Castro work.
The U.S. Peace Council, founded in 1948 as the American branch of the Soviet based World Peace Council, was the pre-eminent front group of the CPUSA, meant to gather backers in support of pro-Soviet foreign policy positions, whether it was gathering signatures in the early 50’s for the “Stockholm Peace Petition,” which sought unilateral US atomic disarmament so the Soviets could forge ahead with their stockpile while the US destroyed the one it had, or whether it was calling for an end to US atomic testing in the 60’s while supporting Soviet atomic tests.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its bloc in Eastern Europe, its remnant too now devotes itself to pro-Cuban and pro-Venezuelan political support. Its website calls for an end to “an end to the imperialist war of aggression against Libya.” It favors opposing what it calls Israel’s desire for a “total war” on Lebanon and Gaza, and of course, it still opposes NATO, as it did in the old days of the existence of what it saw as the bloc created by the international forces of peace led by the socialist bloc and the Soviet Union.
It must be costing George Soros a lot of money to fly all those hippies from Berkley to Washington. Heh.
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