July 14, 2011 journal, rockets hit the green zone in Iraq as Leon Panetta arrived telling us to get out and that message is clear from the Iraqi people. One soldier said they're coming after us and he is right after all the destruction we have brought down on the Iraqi people. During this budget crisis the U.S. is withholding money aid from Pakistan in lieu of better corporation to single out the mysterious enemy which in most cases do not exist anyway. The Zionist cause is war & death first and the protection of false Israel second as motive. The foreign Federal Reserve Bank is synonymous with Wall Street and the corporations. Military hardware producing fat heads are monolithic with the rulers of evil warmongering reptilians that gain full control this country by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 causing the Great Depression in 1929 so they could grab important real-estate from Americans. The American empire as breaking up like Britain did and Rome and Babylon, Assyria! & Deportation of the trouble makers can be applied here because we don't need the banks anyway. Israel is deporting their demonstrators against the mercy ships sailing to Gaza. "Israel Begins Deporting "Fly-In" Activists-Isabel Kershner, The New York Times News Service: "Israel prevented a gathering of foreigners here on Friday by blocking, deterring or deporting hundreds of air travelers who had been invited by Palestinian activists to fly into Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport and then travel to the West Bank for a week of 'fellowship and actions.'" Bethlehem, West Bank - Israel prevented a gathering of foreigners here on Friday by blocking, deterring or deporting hundreds of air travelers who had been invited by Palestinian activists to fly into Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport and then travel to the West Bank for a week of "fellowship and actions." Israel has traditionally been welcoming of foreign tourists, including more than a million Christian pilgrims who visited this Palestinian city of the Nativity last year. But the Israeli authorities prepared for days to head off Friday's planned fly-in. The Israeli news media added to the hype by calling it a "flightilla" - a reference to the flotilla of boats that was supposed to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza last month but has been stymied by Israeli pressure and by the cooperation of the Greek port authorities. As a result, most of the foreigners who planned to fly to Tel Aviv and join the "Welcome to Palestine" initiative were either deterred from trying to come or were prevented from boarding flights to Israel by foreign airlines, on instructions from the Israelis. The Palestinian hosts decried the Israeli measures, but also chalked up a small victory. Fadi Kattan, a Palestinian organizer, said at a news conference in Bethlehem that he was "pleased - sadly pleased" that the episode had exposed what he described as Israel's draconian anti-Palestinian policies. Over the past few days, hundreds of police officers were deployed in and around the airport near Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the base of operations at Ben-Gurion with his internal security minister, the police chief, security branch representatives and immigration officials. There were persistent reports that the foreign visitors would try to create chaos and paralyze the airport, despite strenuous denials from the organizers of the campaign, who advocate nonviolence. They insisted that the foreigners wanted only to transit the airport and "go to Palestine." (The West Bank has no airport of its own.) By Thursday, the Interior Ministry had sent letters to foreign airlines with a list of 342 passengers it described as "pro-Palestinian radicals" planning to "arrive on commercial flights from abroad to disrupt the order and confront security forces at friction points." Israel said people on the list would be refused entry, and it asked the airlines not to allow them to board flights, warning that if the listed passengers arrived at Ben-Gurion, they would be sent back on the same aircraft. Several airlines, including Lufthansa, complied with Israel's request. Several passengers at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris were barred from boarding a Lufthansa flight to Tel Aviv on Friday morning, and staged a protest. About 50 people were turned away, according to Agence France-Presse. There were reports of a similar disturbance at the Geneva airport. "Like any other airline operating internationally, Lufthansa has to comply with the immigration laws and administrative decrees of the country we are flying to," said Martin Riecken, a spokesman for the airline. Such requests by national governments are not altogether uncommon, Mr. Riecken said, noting for example the United States' no-fly list, which includes several thousand names. Malev, the Hungarian airline, denied boarding to about 10 ticket holders in Paris on Friday. The decision to deny passengers the right to board does not indicate that "the airline likes or doesn't like anyone," said Marta Rona, a spokeswoman for the airline. Rather, she said, Israel had made it clear that the return of blacklisted passengers would be the responsibility of the airline. "It's our cost; it's our responsibility; it's our problem," Ms. Rona said. Yigal Palmor, the spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said that the Israeli authorities had followed the activists' plans and compiled the list of undesirables by tracking the Web sites and social networking of the organizations involved. "We did not need the Mossad," Mr. Palmor said, referring to Israel's intelligence agency. "It was all out there in the open." At Ben-Gurion Airport, two American women were deported from Israel early Friday after flying in from Athens. In the afternoon, six Israeli left-wing demonstrators were detained for questioning after shouting pro-Palestinian slogans in the arrivals hall. By early Saturday, 124 foreigners had been refused entry and were awaiting deportation, a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry, Sabine Haddad, said. They had come in on six different flights and included Spanish, French, American, Belgian, Bulgarian and Dutch nationals, she said. Israel's Internal Security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, had branded the potential visitors as "hooligans." Mr. Netanyahu said that every country has the right to block the entry of "provocateurs." Still, Israeli commentators and some politicians have described the Israeli preparations as excessive and bordering on hysterical. "The state of Israel has taken leave of its senses," wrote columnist Eitan Haber on the front page of the popular Yediot Aharonot newspaper on Thursday. "Instead of welcoming these loony visitors, permitting them to sing, whistle and even raise signs, the world is liable to see the 'Zionist storm troopers' in action once again." Brigitte Von Winterfeld, 71, from Germany, was one of a few foreigners who got to Bethlehem to join the campaign. She said she flew in on Tuesday, chose a "smiley" immigration officer at the passport control booths, and told him she was coming to visit friends. Ms. Von Winterfeld said she spent a while here last year with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, a World Council of Churches organization that says it brings people from other countries to the West Bank to experience life under occupation. nThe Palestinian organizers of the week's program include well-known advocates of nonviolent protest like Sami Awad of the Bethlehem-based Holy Land Trust, Mazin Qumsiyeh, a science professor at Bethlehem University. They said they were going ahead with the schedule as planned. The itinerary includes visits to families in Palestinian refugee camps as well as demonstrations at various traditional Israeli-Palestinian flashpoints. Scott Sayare contributed reporting from Paris. (c) 2011 The New York Times Company -Truthout has licensed this content. It may not be reproduced by any other source and is not covered by our Creative Commons license. Whowland-I agree with Lola, Israel has shot itself in the foot. Sugar daddy, the USA is hated by the civilized world and we in the US are sick of our AIPAC owned congress and will throw the bums out. Palestine Forever, never Israel. Lola P-A Ha'aretz poster commented: "No matter what happens from here, Palestinians win. Our spirits are high, we know we have won. The Greek people are behind us, even if their leaders have been bribed by Israel and its sugar daddy in Washington, the U.S. is becoming a laughing stock around the world, and Israel is more hated than ever. Whether or not we reach Gaza we and the Palestinians are victorious. Free Palestine. Free Gaza. " PAUX-In 1920 the mandate for Palestine was given, it was employed in 1923. Between 1920 &1923 annual reports had been issued and published by the Government of Palestine, these reports continued until 1943 when the British discontinued the need for these reports. In 1945 and 1946 the Government of Palestine produced a 2 volume survey and two other volumes presented as an authoritative record of their administration. They did have a working government but the Balfour declaration made the mandate unworkable for two communities in Palestine. It was the illegal arm twisted Balfour Declaration that ignored their rights and sovereignity. They were to allow so many Jewish immigrants but in 1948 the jewish immigrants took over 78% of Palestine, not what the UN had stated in 1947, they expelled 750,00 Palestinians from their home, Palestine. So you see Palestine was and is a country. As for the individuals wanting to go to Palestine for a fellowship meeting...israel long ago took out direct access to Palestine, so now any visitors NEED to go to israel to get to their intended destination. This is just another way of keeping those in your gulag unaccessable to visitors, it is total control and it is wrong. Marty Rajandran-The end of an era is coming....for the Israelis. Hope that the Israeli people will have the courage and grace to allow Palestinians rights denied for decades. nexodus-"Jews are naturally inclined to charity." Other natural inclinations include bloody subjection, arrogance, greed, and buying and selling American politicians. The 2 "likes" are erroneous. PAUX-Build schools and hospitals...for israel to bomb them as they did in "operation cast lead". The israelis handle Palestian money, aid, money made through exports, and believe me they dole it out very slowly if at all. As for the rebuilding only a minute amt. of supplies are allowed in. They have a shortage of medicines, books, building material, and when the children collect rocks and gravel to be made into cement they are shot at, wounded or killed for sport. No, the US needs a new game plan, no more money, aid , no forgiveness of their debts...this all adds up to more than what is stated by our government and any is tooo much. JaiYaiHumYai-Who are these Rothschild Zionists Smithers? Two AIPAC-inspired measures are currently before the-US House and Senate to support a 2-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (it says here!). Only Palestinians pre-approved by the US & Israel need apply (The rest are "terrorists", "militants" & so forth.) You can access these via the congressional internet, www.thomas.gov. Most of the bills' particulars are either false or absurd or both. (Be sure to click NUMBER before entering the number of the bill to search!) Ha'aretz columnist Ari Shavit once wrote a column later "adapted" for the New York Times as follows: ...we believe with absolute certitude that now , with the White House in our hands along with the Pentagon and the New York Times, the lives of [the Arabs] do not count as much as our own. Their blood does not count as much as our blood... when we have the AIPAC lobby...we truly have the right to tell 400,000 people that in eight hours they must flee from their homes [which we will then] treat as military targets. And we have the right to rain 16,000 bombs on their villages, towns and populated areas. That we have the right to kill without any guilt..." (cited in WORLD ORDERS OLD AND NEW by Noam Chomsky, pp. 293-294, footnote 54 (Columbia University Press, New York, 1994,1996). The US and "the west" as defined by the US and Israel?) must be prepared to deal with the sovereign and independent Government of Palestine. Although nothing is a "given", one must presume that HAMAS will play a major role in this government. It is up to the Government of Palestine not the US and Israel how its nation is structured." Congressman Ryan: The Rich Man's Robin Hood Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Newspaper: "Chairman of the House Budget Committee Paul Ryan (R-WI) describes his budget proposal as necessary steps 'to get prosperity back on track' and "help people on welfare get back on their feet'... Critics say Ryan has it backwards. His swipes at programs for the young and old will hurt those barely hanging on in the fragile economy. Thousands more jobs will be lost in every state, further slowing recovery... The plan snips the threads of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that Americans contribute to during their working years and count on for retirement or disability." Read the Article Killer Drones Take the Place of War Doug Noble, Truthout: "What is different about this latest weapon of war that we oppose so strenuously?.. The answer is this: Killer drones are not primarily weapons of war, as usually defined, but instead are automated technologies designed for convenient, targeted killing or assassination outside of war zones. As mentioned, the usual targets are in countries we aren't at war with, far from usual areas of armed conflict".