Saturday, 22 August 2009

Benhamin Merhav & Family 'legally' tortured by Australian Gestapo

Thursday, August 20, 2009

My final appeal to supporters of the Palestinian cause

http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/

This is the third and last appeal to supporters of the Palestinian cause. The ongoing torture of myself, my daughter and my son has not abated, yet the Palestinian cause supporters have not responded to my previous appeals for solidarity action.

Only one out of hundreds of Palestine supporters who received my messages has expressed solidarity and has taken positive action to help.
This is a disaster for the Palestinian cause, not just for the three of us victims of zionist terrorism.

Why would supporters of the Palestinian cause behave in such a disastrous manner that would benefit only the zionist Gestapo and the zionist apartheid regime of Israel ? I mean even by paying those supporters, namely, by giving them bribes the zionist Gestapo could not hope for a better service !

Let us check the logic of it again.

The zionist Gestapo has subjected Benjamin Merhav to ongoing nightly torture for 9 years, his daughter subjected to psychiatric torture for 31 years, and his son for 19 years, and the shrinks won't let go of them ! This is without precedent not only among Israelis but even amongst Palestinians ! The only exceptions are the Palestinians who actively resist the zionist occupation, therefore considered dangerous by the zionist Gestapo. Moreover, amongst all the Palestinians who live outside occupied Palestine there is not a single one - not even one supporter of the Palestinian cause ! - who has been punished by the zionist Gestapo as myself, my daughter and my son have been !

The logical riddle is,of course, this : do those supporters of the Palestinian
cause wish to help the zionist Gestapo terrorist actions against me, against my daughter and against my son so as to crush us to death by ignoring our plight and by ignoring zionist terrorism ? If so, how can they reconcile such an attitude with their alleged opposition to zionism and to the zionist apartheid state ?

It is not too late to respond to this, my final appeal,
and I therefore call again each one of you, as a group and as individuals, to show your solidarity with us and your outrage at the injustice perpetrated against us by protesting to ICJ Australia, and to ICJ internationally, and in particular to Mr. Raji Sourani, PCHR director.

The list of email addresses to email your protests :


The email address of Michael Kirby : mail@michaelkirby.com.au ;
The email address of Raji Sourani is the PCHR email address :
pchr@pchrgaza.org

The ICJ addresses are :
president@icj-aust.org.au,

evatt@unsw.edu.au,
chair@icj-aust.org.au,
sec-gen@icj-aust.org.au,
info@icj.dk,
info@icj.org




Thanking you in advance, Benjamin Merhav

Monday, August 17, 2009

OPEN LETTER TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE‏‏
Hi,

I type this letter as a last resort, and with a heavy heart. As all of you know, I have been subjected to Zionist Gestapo torture by sleep deprivation every night for some 9 years now, ever since my return from hospital where a cancer tumour had been removed from my colon.

In addition, the Zionist Gestapo has subjected my daughter to psychiatric torture for over 31 years, and my son for over 19 years now. The purpose of turturing the three of us by the Zionist Gestapo is to kill us in the most painful manner.

Although all three of us are innocent of any illegal or any wrong doing, we are punished for my strong opposition to Zionism and to the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel . It has began some 46 years ago in Israel with an article I wrote against WMD race which the Zionist regime has began then by production of nuclear bombs at the Dimona pile ( for more details see the first part of my autobiography : http://theautobiographyofbenjaminmerhav.blogspot.com/ ).

As you would have concluded by now from reading my 76 open letters to the current Attorney-General of Australia, my complaints to him, including the violations of the rule of law by ASIO, have been rejected, while the ongoing torture of all the three of us continues to damage our well being and health and to subject us to the risks of death as a result. Copies of my open letters have been emailed to government ministers, including the PM, as well as to Labor and to Green members of the federal parliament, but they all ignored my complaints.

My 3 appeals to the International Commision of Jurists, and to many prominent jurists in Australia and elsewhere, have been ignored too so far (see my previous post on this blog ).

Amongst those prominent Australian jurists is former High Court judge, former ICJ President, and current Honorary ICJ member , Mr. Michael Kirby. Here is what the international ICJ site says about him :

"Michael D. Kirby, Australia Justice Kirby was elected an Honorary Member in 2002. He served on the Executive Committee from 1992 to 1995 and as President of the ICJ from 1995 to 1998. Justice Kirby was originally elected to the Commission in 1984." I have had no reply from him so far.

Amongst the overseas jurists I appealed to were two current members of the international ICJ Executive Committee: Prof. Robert Goldman, former ICJ President, and Mr. Raji Sourani , Director of PCHR, and ICJ Executive Committee member.

That Prof. Goldman did not reply can be explained by his sympathy with Zionism and with the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel, but why Raji Sourani ? As a Palestinian, particularly as the head of the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), he sure should have demanded the urgent consideration of my appeal by the ICJ ! Instead, he choose to ignore my appeal like Prof. Goldman and the other jurists did !

I therefore ask each one of you, as a group and as individuals, to show your solidarity with us and your outrage at the injustice perpetrated against us by protesting to ICJ Australia, and to ICJ internationally, and in particular to Mr. Raji Sourani, PCHR director.

Thanking you in advance, Benjamin

Thursday, August 13, 2009

MY THIRD APPEAL to the International Commission of Jurists ,TO ALL JURISTS AND TO ALL HONEST DEMOCRATS

Below are copies of my appeals to ICJ Australia functionaries emailed to them 2 weeks ago and one week ago respectively. So far I have had no reply from any of them, despite the urgency of my appeals.

Copies of my appeals had been emailed to various other leading members of ICJ, including Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland,
and current President of the ICJ, Prof. Robert Goldman, and Mr. Raji Sourani , Director of PCHR, both ICJ Executive Committee members. So far I have had no reply from any of them.

My open letters to the Attorney-General of Australia, the first of which was emailed to him more than 8 months ago, regarding zionist terrorism and violations of the rule of law by ASIO, have been rejected, while I have continued
daily to email to him my open letters (my 76th open letter can be located on this blog http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/).

I therefore ask for your urgent intervention in the matter of my complaints so as to defend the rule of law in Australia from zionist terrorism which is aided and abetted by ASIO here in Australia.

Looking forward to your early reply, Benjamin Merhav

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MY SECOND APPEAL to the International Commission of Jurists ,TO ALL JURISTS AND TO ALL HONEST DEMOCRATS.

Dear sir/madam

Shortly after my first letter to ICJ Australia President
the Welcome Page has vanished from ICJ Australia website. Of great importance and of particular relevance is the passage I emphasized in red when quoting that Welcome Page . It reads :

"ICJ Australia calls on all lawyers and other jurists in Australia and around the world to use their specialised knowledge and expertise to forthrightly promote the inalienable rights of all people that can only be truly protected through the rule of law."

This quotation, as well as the rest of the Welcome page, have been the essence of the ICJ formation and the very reason for its continued existence. So why did the leaders of ICJ Australia decide now to delete this Welcome Page from the ICJ website now ? Do they mean to state that they no longer object to violations of the rule of law in Australia , and that victims of such violations are no longer welcome by ICJ Australia ?

It is now more than a week since ICJ Australia President got my first letter to him, but so far I have had no reply from him. Why ? Is he hostile to me for complaing against violations of the rule of law in Australia by ASIO ? If so, why would he not have the courtesy to explain that in a reply to my letter ?

I ask the ICJ Australia leaders to make their position clear to all Australians, and without delay. In my own, my daughter's and my son's cases I wish to remind them that at stake is our very survival which continues to be threatened by zionist terrorism against us !


Benjamin Merhav

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THIS IS AN APPEAL TO ALL JURISTS - IN AUSTRALIA AND INTERNATIONALLY - AND TO ALL HONEST DEMOCRATS. PLEASE CONSIDER IT URGENTLY !


Dear sir/madam,

the quotation below is from the Welcome Page of ICJ Australia which led me to trust what it states there, namely, that "ICJ Australia is the country's pre-eminent legal non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights through the rule of law." On the 30th Jul 2009 I emailed my letter to the president of the ICJ, with copies to the email address of ICJ here and internationally (a copy of the letter follows below the ICJ quotation). So far I have had no reply to my letter from any of them, not even a confirmation of its receipt.

http://www.icj-aust.org.au/

"ICJ Australia - Welcome Page

ICJ Australia is the country's pre-eminent legal non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights through the rule of law. It is Australia's leading human rights NGO and works closely with the ICJ world body in Geneva. ICJ Australia's standing as an impartial, objective, non-political player in the field of human rights gives it unprecedented access to governments and other policy makers, the judiciary, and diplomatic officers from around the region.

"ICJ Australia calls on all lawyers and other jurists in Australia and around the world to use their specialised knowledge and expertise to forthrightly promote the inalienable rights of all people that can only be truly protected through the rule of law."

(emphasis in red added - B.M.)



"Mr. The Hon John Dowd ,AO QC
ICJ Australia president.


Dear sir,

it is now almost 8 months since my first open letter to the Attorney-General of Australia complaining against ASIO collaboration in the torture of myself and my daughter and my son by Israel's clandestine arm (the zionist Gestapo) here in Australia. The letters (all 67 of them) can be
located by scrolling down from the post on my blog
( http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/ ).

Copies of my letters were emailed to the Prime Minister of Australia and to some members of the federal government, as well as to the official ICJ Australia email address. No reply has been received so far from any of them, and it has been a source of deep concern for myself, as this ongoing zionist terrorism against me and against my daughter and my son is a flagrant violation of the rule of law in Australia.

On February 16th 2009 the Eminent Jurists Panel released their report 'Assessing damage, Urging Action' to enable governments "to re-examine laws and ensure that the high standards of Australia's rule of law has not been unnecessarily trampled by the political imperative to be seen to be doing something" (according to your own statement). In my complaint to the Attorney-General I have repeatedly emphasised this aspect of rule of law violations by ASIO, as well as the violation of Australia's
sovereignty by a foreign government with the collaboration od ASIO. Above all for your attention is the contempt of ASIO for the rule of law, and its insolent disregard for my complaints, as if it is above the law and unaccountable.

I therefore ask you to urgently protest these violations of the rule of law by ASIO in Australia, and to make your protest known to the Attorney-General and to the Prime Minister of Australia.

Looking forward to your early reply, Benjamin Merhav"

The zionist terrorism to which myself, my daughter and my son have been subjected to can have only one purpose : to kill us ! Therefore ASIO should have stopped it, but it does the opposite instead. The federal goverment should have ordered ASIO to stop this zionist terrorism, but it refuses to do so, thus giving both the zionist Gestapo and ASIO the green light to go ahead and kill us. The only hope left for us is the protest intervention by ICJ !

ICJ should be reminded of the specific provisions of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, articles 3 and 5 :

"Article 3.

  • Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."

"Article 5.

  • No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

Looking forward to your early relpy,
Benjamin Merhav

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

MY 76th OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA

The Hon. Robert McClelland,MP
Federal Attorney-General
Canberra, ACT


Dear Minister,
Dear Minister,

Re: My complaint against the illegal nightly harassment (torture by sleep deprivation), as well as the insistence on the continued psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son, by Israel's clandestine arm (the zionist Gestapo) here in Australia.

Thank you for your letter of reply, dated 2 July, which I received by mail on the 6th of July.

Your letter concerns only my complaint against ASIO for wiretapping my phone at the behest of the zionist Gestapo, an obviously illegal activity for which I have solid proof. However, trusting your assurance that your department is on guard against such unlawful activity, and that an "investigation into a serious offence" takes place before a warrant ( for the wiretapping) is issued, I thank you for ending that illegal wiretapping of my phone.

There remains the complaint of zionist terrorism against me and against my daughter and my son by the zionist Gestapo here in Melbourne. This remains a very serious complaint, because those terrorist activities are, in fact, attempts on our lives ( see, for example, this medical report regarding the fatal consequences of sleep deprivation : http://18thoutlawpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-on-killing-treatment-of-state.html).

As you conclude your letter by stating that you "cannot assist (me) further with (my) complaint" it comes as a shock to me. Firstly, because those zionist terrorist activities I complain against - terrorist activities with the full knowledge and collaboration of ASIO - are both a violation and subversion of Australia's sovereignty. Secondly, because ASIO which aids and abets this zionist terrorism in Australia, rather than stop it, and does it without being accountable (and with the collusion of the Inspector-General), makes a mockery of the rule of law in Australia, as well as victimising myself , my daughter and my son !


Such a situation is unthinkable in a country where the rule of law prevails, such as this country, Australia. As Australian citizens, myself and my daughter and son are entitled to the protection of the law ! Surely, this federal government would not let a foreign government terrorize Australian citizens here, on Australian soil !

My previous letters to you
can be located by scrolling down from this post on my blog
( http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/ ).

Zionism, being the ideology of the zionist apartheid regime of IsraeI, the regime which is the culprit in this terror case, must be exposed and condemned. Therefore I continue to inform you and the government about the racist, fascist and terrorist history of modern zionism. This information has been hidden from the public, hence unknown to most Australians. The Australian government would do them a great service if it would publicise the historical truth that I am presenting to you.

Here is more on the zionist ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
:

http://countercurrents.org/fleming100809.htm

"The Many Layers Of Nahalat Shimon Beg
The Question: Where's The Money
Coming From?

By Eileen Fleming

10 August, 2009
Countercurrents.org

[Occupied East Jerusalem] Last Sunday morning just before sunrise, Israeli forces evicted seventy more Palestinians from their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which is being taken over by the Nahalat Shimon settlers.

"The events in Sheikh Jarrah garnered international censure from the European Union, the United Nations (UN) and from Britain, which said it was 'appalled' at the move. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday night called the Israeli evictions "deeply regrettable" and she urged "the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions." [1]

Israeli forces also demolished the Al-Kurd family protest tent for the sixth time. The Al-Kurd family was evicted from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood last November, just prior to my first visit and I returned again on June 10, 2009.

Less than a five minute walk from my room at the Ambassador Hotel and less than ten from the Old City of Jerusalem is the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Around the corner from my hotel and up the hill from the Al-Kurd Tent is a newly erected community center with a plaque "Dedicated to the Children of Shimon Hazadik Neighborhood" from a Dr. Rubin Brecher and family of Lawrence, New York.

According to Jewish tradition, Shimon Hazadik (which means 'The righteous') was the High Priest at the time of Alexander the Great. He reminded the people of what's important in the world and he used to say: "On three things the world stands: the Torah, on Service [prayer] and on acts of kindness."[2]

Mrs. Al-Kurd, known as Um Kamal [mother of Kamal] and her now deceased husband Mohammed had lived in the neighborhood from 1956 until the morning of November 9, 2008 when the Israeli police enforced a court order that evicted them.

When I returned to the tent on June 10, 2009 and asked Um Kamal where her calm strength and perpetual smile came from, she gestured to the sky and responded, "Allah: God gives me."

Maher Hannoun interjected, "Um Kamal is a strong woman because she has a strong connection to this land where we both were born! Even for millions of dollars we would never sell our land, our hopes, our dreams! We are here legally and we have a contract that was signed between the government and UNWRRA, but what gives us the real power to fight is seeing all the people who come to be with us here believing in human rights. We need every one to carry our message around the world that this is our home and we will never leave here.

"In Gaza they attacked with F16 tanks. In Jerusalem they attack with evictions and transferring property. More than 500 homes in this neighborhood have already received eviction notices. They are building 200 settler units and an American Israeli company named Nahalat Shimon Builders is behind it."

Nahalat Shimon is also the name of a settler group and a real estate company.

On August 2, 2009, "Israeli riot police wielding clubs kicked out two Palestinian families from their homes in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, defying international protests over Jewish settlement activity in the area. Clashes erupted after police moved in at dawn around the homes in the upmarket Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah following an Israeli court decision ordering the eviction of the 53 Palestinians, including 19 minors.

“I was born in this house and so were my children,” said Maher Hanoun, whose family was evicted along with the neighboring Ghawi household. “Now we are on the streets. We have become refugees.”

"The Supreme Court ordered the evictions following an appeal by the Nahalat Shimon International settler group which claimed Jewish settlers have title deeds for the properties, despite UN and Palestinian denials. Jerusalem authorities have also given permission for the construction of about 20 housing units in Sheikh Jarrah, in defiance of global calls for a halt to all settlement activity in occupied east Jerusalem and the West Bank." [3]

On November 9, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Reverend Richard Toll was awakened in his hotel room in the Ambassador while the Israeli Occupying Forces/IOF broke down the door of the home of the Al Khurd family. Rev. Toll informed me that he was jarred awake by a woman’s pain filled scream that was indescribable.


The Al Khurd family had lived in their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood since the days when east Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. The United Nations upon contract with Jordan allotted them the land after they became refugees when they were expelled from their home in west Jerusalem by Zionists during the 1948 war.

Hasib Nashashibi, of the Ensan Center for Democracy and Human Rights [an NGO coalition of Palestinian Muslim and Christians] explained to me, “When Jordan controlled this land and the UN granted privileges to the Palestinian refugees including those from west Jerusalem, such as education, health care, and relief and development; they also allowed the refugees to give up not all privileges and receive a home and land deed instead. Jordan never fulfilled their obligation to send the written documentation that these west Jerusalem refugees are land owners and not tenants. Now the Israeli’s are trying to make them refugees for the second time!”


Since East Jerusalem’s occupation by Israel in 1967, the Oriental Jews Associations and the Knesseth Yisrael Association have been waging a brutal take over of the Khurds’ home, claiming that the land originally belonged to Jews.

In 1972, they succeeded to register the land in their name with the Israeli Land registrar. In 1999, settlers burst into the home and set up an occupation in a wing of the house that belonged to the couple’s son, Raed. The Khurd family hired lawyers and have spent a fortune in court battles and in 2006, the Israeli court finally revoked the claim of ownership by the settlers. However, on February 25, 2007 the Israeli Supreme Court issued an order to evict the settlers but it was never enforced!

In Israeli law, all of Jerusalem, including the eastern half of the city, is considered to be the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state and religiously fundamentalist settlers have been claiming land all over occupied East Jerusalem based on title deeds that pre-existed 1948.

Since Israel became a state 531 Palestinian villages have been destroyed and 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees in 1948, and Israeli continues to make more!

President George W. Bush became a willing collaborator in this on going injustice in his infamous 2004 exchange of letters with Ariel Sharon. Bush agreed that Israel would not be expected to return to the armistice lines of 1949 and declared that Israel would be able to hold on to its “population centers” in the West Bank. This is nothing more than Orwellian spin that attempts to justify the established settlement blocs for every one of them are illegal under international law.


"Michshol Hafrada" is Hebrew for "The Separation Wall" and separation translates to Apartheid in Afrikaan.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out And to whom I was likely to give offence. Something there is that does not love a wall, That wants it down.-Robert Frost

The Wall has divided Palestinians from Palestinians and has stolen their aquifers, denies them access to their land, jobs, families and holy sites and for every mile it consumes over $1.25 Million USA Tax dollars.

The Wall was deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice but no president has yet demanded Israel to tear down this wall!

The so called Holy Land is a Swiss cheese of land locked enclaves; known as Bantustans in Afrikaan. Jewish only colonies have been implanted to divide the Palestinian neighborhoods throughout occupied territory. Over 100,000 Palestinians are trapped and then daily humiliated and tortured at the over 600 checkpoints that deny them access to their families, land, jobs, resources and holy sites.

Since 1967, over 22,000 dwellings -averaging eleven people per unit- have been bulldozed by Israeli forces usually because they interfere with settlement expansion.

Israel attempts to justify their immoral actions with three distinct categories:

1. Collective Punishment: Homes of suspected terrorists-in reality that is anyone who opposes the occupation- as well as the families of suicide/homicide bombers.

These punitive actions amount to 15% of the over 22,000 homes destroyed since 1967.

2. Administrative demolitions for lack of building permits: Israel refuses to issue any and this accounts for 25%. In occupied east Jerusalem one out of four Palestinian homes have a demolition order.

3. Security: The blanket reason given for all of Israel’s injustices and illegal actions.

On December 20, 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless work confronting and challenging South Africa's Apartheid regime was quoted in The Guardian: "I've been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land. I have seen the humiliation at the checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about…Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice…If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land."

I imagine Shimon Hazadik might remind "the children" who are taking over the neighborhood that,"From Moses to Jeremiah and Isaiah, the Prophets taught...that the Jewish claim on the land of Israel was totally contingent on the moral and spiritual life of the Jews who lived there, and that the land would, as the Torah tells us, 'vomit you out' if people did not live according to the highest moral vision of Torah. Over and over again, the Torah repeated its most frequently stated mitzvah [command]:

"When you enter your land, do not oppress the stranger; the other, the one who is an outsider of your society, the powerless one and then not only 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself' but also 'you shall love the other.'" [4]

I also imagine Shimon Hazadik might be interested- as we all should- in knowing from whom and where the money comes from that equips the Nahalat Shimon settlers.

1. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0804/p06s12-wome.html
2. http://www.chabadonline.com/scripts/tgij/
paper/Articlecm.asp?articleID=1289

3. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?
page=2009\08\03\story_3-8-2009_pg4_6

4. Rabbi Lerner, TIKKUN Magazine, page 35, Sept./Oct. 2007"

I appeal to you again to order the immediate end to the harassment/torture of myself by the zionist Gestapo, and an immediate end to the psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son at the insistence of the zionist Gestapo.

Sincerely, Benjamin Merhav
U3/2 Birdwood Avenue, Dandenong, Vic. 3175

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

MY 75th OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA

The Hon. Robert McClelland,MP
Federal Attorney-General
Canberra, ACT


Dear Minister,
Dear Minister,

Re: My complaint against the illegal nightly harassment (torture by sleep deprivation), as well as the insistence on the continued psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son, by Israel's clandestine arm (the zionist Gestapo) here in Australia.

Thank you for your letter of reply, dated 2 July, which I received by mail on the 6th of July.

Your letter concerns only my complaint against ASIO for wiretapping my phone at the behest of the zionist Gestapo, an obviously illegal activity for which I have solid proof. However, trusting your assurance that your department is on guard against such unlawful activity, and that an "investigation into a serious offence" takes place before a warrant ( for the wiretapping) is issued, I thank you for ending that illegal wiretapping of my phone.

There remains the complaint of zionist terrorism against me and against my daughter and my son by the zionist Gestapo here in Melbourne. This remains a very serious complaint, because those terrorist activities are, in fact, attempts on our lives ( see, for example, this medical report regarding the fatal consequences of sleep deprivation : http://18thoutlawpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-on-killing-treatment-of-state.html).

As you conclude your letter by stating that you "cannot assist (me) further with (my) complaint" it comes as a shock to me. Firstly, because those zionist terrorist activities I complain against - terrorist activities with the full knowledge and collaboration of ASIO - are both a violation and subversion of Australia's sovereignty. Secondly, because ASIO which aids and abets this zionist terrorism in Australia, rather than stop it, and does it without being accountable (and with the collusion of the Inspector-General), makes a mockery of the rule of law in Australia, as well as victimising myself , my daughter and my son !


Such a situation is unthinkable in a country where the rule of law prevails, such as this country, Australia. As Australian citizens, myself and my daughter and son are entitled to the protection of the law ! Surely, this federal government would not let a foreign government terrorize Australian citizens here, on Australian soil !

My previous letters to you
can be located by scrolling down from this post on my blog
( http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/ ).

Zionism, being the ideology of the zionist apartheid regime of IsraeI, the regime which is the culprit in this terror case, must be exposed and condemned. Therefore I continue to inform you and the government about the racist, fascist and terrorist history of modern zionism. This information has been hidden from the public, hence unknown to most Australians. The Australian government would do them a great service if it would publicise the historical truth that I am presenting to you.

Following is a current report about the ongoing zionist ethnic cleansing in occupied Jerusalem.

http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/08/09/ethnic-cleansing-in-jerusalem


"Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem

Kawther Salam

settlers-attack-3.jpg
the settlers used stones, sticks, and chairs in their criminal attack against the Al-Gawi and Hannoun families.


August 9, 2009

(click on pictures to see them bigger)

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Yesterday July 8 2009 at noon, about 40 ultra-orthodox jewish squatters, the Israeli terrorists generally known as "Siknaj", attacked the tent of the Al-Ghawi family and beat and wounded four members of these families, who were forcibly settlers attack (1)expelled from their own house on last 2 August 2009.
The criminal settlers, or "Siknaj", were wearing black talars and hats, and used stones, sticks, and chairs in their criminal attack. The victims were three children aged between 10 – 13 and a woman. One of them was left bleeding in critical condition.

Naser Al-Gawi, one of those robbed of his house by the israeli government, said that a large detachment of Israeli police came to the place of the assault, and that rather than preventing the criminal attacks of the Siknaj, they protected p02them and arrested Khaled Al- Gawi, aged 40, another victim of the israeli theft. Al-Gawi denied that his family had provoked the Siknaj settlers. He said that the settlers wanted to remove their tents, which they set up near their houses, which are now occupied by the siknaj. He confirmed that he will not leave the area until he is able to return to his house.


On August 2 2009, the Israeli criminal forces forcibly terrorized and expelled two Palestinian families, Al-Gawi and Hannoun from their houses in the Sheikh Hannoun (4)Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem after they demolished the gates of the houses (11 houses, eight houses belong to Aberd Al-Fattah Hannoun and his sons, and three houses belong to Maher Hannoun and his brothers), and forced the families to get out under the threat of murdering them. The criminal armed Israeli police pointed their guns at the civilians and denied them the right to take the necessary things for their children, or to remove from their furniture and other belongings.

Few hours after the Palestinian family’s expulsion, a truck of ultra orthodox MMIDEAST-CONFLICT-PALESTINIAN-JERUSALEMjews, Siknaj, came to live in the Palestinian houses. The Siknaj and the criminal forces of Israel threw the furniture of the two families out of their homes and moved their belonging of the Siknaj to the Palestinian houses, while the Israeli police stood to guard to protect them from any attempt from the Palestinian families to recover their property. Before that, on November 2008, the Israeli military border police forcibly expelled Mahmoud Al-Kurd, an old paralyzed man on a wheelchair, his wife Fawzia, Um Kamel, and their five children and their families, from their home in Sheikh Jarrah in the East of Jerusalem.

Mohammed Al-Kurd had lived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood from 1956 Mahmoud Al-Kurd Funeraluntil the morning of November 9, 2008 when the Israeli police enforced a court order that evicted them. Few days after this expulsion, Mahmoud Al-Kurd died of heart attack in his protest tent in the neighborhood of his house. The criminal Israeli Zionist organization police has since then destroyed the tent of the Al-Kurd family several times.

The Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini, had sent a letter for Al-Kurd family after their expulsion from their house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem . She wrote:

Dear all,

you may remember that last Thursday during the Luisa Morgantiniiplenary session we passed a urgency resolution on the expulsion of the Al Kurd family from the house they bought and lived in since 1956 in East Jerusalem. A group of extremist settlers claimed ownership to that house and 26 other houses in the same neighbourhood, on the basis of an Ottoman title deed dating from 1880, the authenticity of which is doubtful and which is also disputed by United States. The project of the Jewish associations is to build 200 hundreds colonial units that will replace the Palestinian homes.

p7150033Mohammed Kamal Al Kurd the husband of Umm Kamal did not survive, yes he was already ill, but the expulsion from the house, and the destruction by the Israeli police of the tents were they were staying after being expelled from their home , has been unbearable to him. He died in the Hospital.
Best regards,

Luisa Morgantini
Vice President of the European Parliament

Currently, a total of around 28 Palestinian families of East Jerusalem face Israeli img_0564expulsion from their homes in Al- Shiekh Jarrah neighborhood. The Palestinian families had lived in their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood since the days when east Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. The United Nations upon contract with Jordan allotted them the land after they became refugees when they were expelled from their homes in west Jerusalem by Zionists during the 1948 war.

Despite the UN and the Palestinian denials, and despite the fact that the lawyer Hannoun (8)of the Sheikh Jarrah families found that there is no evidence in the Turkish archives that the Siknaj are the owners of the land and the houses, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the expulsion of the Palestinian families following an appeal by the Zionists Nahalat Shimon settler group, which claimed that the Siknaj lived in, or bought plots in these areas before the establishment of Israel itself and by the partition resolution of 1948.

Two third of the houses in the West of Jerusalem belong to Palestinian families whose owners are denied the right to retake them. Some of these owners have appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to regain their property, but always this court has always rejected their appeals, thus in fact creating injustice and supporting crimes.

What the Israeli Supreme Court and the Zionists Hannoun (12)organization "State of Israel" must remember and never forget is that we are all the Palestinians will NEVER give up and never forget, and that FOR EVER there are tens of thousands, millions of us who have their land and the homes in occupied Palestine, since 1948 and prior to that, and that we have the documents which prove our ownership.

Over 750.000 of us Palestinians were forcibly expelled in 1948 by the Israeli Zionists, turning us into refugees in Hannoun (16)Arab countries and in the Diaspora, and that also millions of us live in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. We all have the right to return and to ask about our property. The Siknaj will be institutionalized, the whole criminal enterprise called "Israel" will go, and after that ALL jews of the world will be forever held in contempt everywhere, even in countries where today they are highly respected.[Kawther]

There are many houses and land belonging to Palestinians, which since 1948 – and until now, have been stolen and occupied by these European and American jews, which today are occupied by Israeli ministers. One of these thieves is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lives in a house stolen from a Palestinian family in the Al-Talibia Arab district in the west of Jerusalem.

The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem was built by the UN and Jordanian government in 1956 to house Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. Hannoun (7)In 1967 Israel captured and illegally annexed Jerusalem during the six day war. We Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state that includes the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and so it will be with or without the consent of the Siknaj, who better start packing."


I appeal to you again to order the immediate end to the harassment/torture of myself by the zionist Gestapo, and an immediate end to the psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son at the insistence of the zionist Gestapo.

Sincerely, Benjamin Merhav
U3/2 Birdwood Avenue, Dandenong, Vic. 3175
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Monday, 17 August 2009

IAN R. CRANE & CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

Exposing the Agenda of the New World Order

An ex-oilfield executive, Ian now lectures and writes on the geo-political webs that are being spun; with particular focus on US Hegemony and the NWO agenda for control of global resources. Since 2007 Ian has focused his efforts on raising public awareness of the pernicious attack on the global population in the name of corporate globalisation and harmonisation; with particular focus on the excesses of Codex Alimentarius. Ian is an independent researcher; he is completely self-funded. The views expressed in his talks and DVD's are based entirely upon his personal knowledge and research. Prior to his retirement from the corporate arena, Ian enjoyed a career of 25 years in telecommunications and international oilfield services, a career that provided the opportunity to live & work in the U.K., Continental Europe, the Middle East & Houston, Texas.

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As the world continues to descend into the abyss of a contrived economic downturn, fed by falling house prices, increasing unemployment and the planned obliteration of pensions and personal savings, coupled with the forced introduction of GM foods, increasing use of prescription psycho-active pharmaceuticals (including Tamiflu!) and the most outrageous erosion of civil liberties; Ian presents the facts in support of his controversial observation that the passive acquiescence to the increasingly outrageous agenda of the New World Order would perhaps indicate that humanity is ostensibly a 'slave race' - a race which can do little or nothing to halt the socio-psychopathic agenda of the ‘alien force amongst us’ … otherwise known as the ‘Ruling Elite’.

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Friday, 7 August 2009

Blackwater Xe the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army's Crusade to legally murder Muslims.

 BLACKWATER XE

 THE WORLD'S GREATEST AND RICHEST TERRORIST MERCENARY ARMY KILLING MACHINE!

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Blackwater: the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

Privatizing the US Military

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Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill (2008 with 2013 epilogue) is an in-depth examination of the systematic privatization of the US military. In 1988, as Secretary of Defense to Bush senior, Dick Cheney initiated the process of outsourcing military training and security and intelligence roles to private companies. Thanks to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Doctrine, this outsourcing would extend to combat roles during the 2003-2008 occupation of Iraq.

Scahill’s book places special emphasis on the US failure to hold mercenary soldiers accountable for human rights violations. It also highlights the total absence of financial oversight, allowing Blackwater, Halliburton and other private military contractors to bilk taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars. Finally it raises the troubling specter of corporations or even wealthy individuals hiring a standing mercenary army, such as Blackwater, to declare war against sovereign states.

Cheney Downsizes the US Military
Scahill begins by discussing the major downsizing of the US military that began in 1988, even before the fall of the Berlin Wall and break-up of the former Soviet Union. In his first year as Secretary of Defense, Cheney reduced military spending by $10 billion, by canceling expensive weapons systems and decreasing US troop strength from 2.2 to 1.6 million. As the cuts continued, there was a growing tendency to outsource various non-combat functions to private contractors. Clinton continued the trend, when he hired Military Professionals Resources Inc (staffed by retired military officers) to “train” the Croatian military* in their secessionist war against Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.

The Rumsfeld Doctrine
Following George W Bush’s election in 2000, Rumsfeld pursued even more aggressive privatization of the Pentagon bureaucracy. The primary neoconservative rationale for shifting both combat and non-combat duties to private mercenaries was to allow the President to engage in potentially unpopular overseas military interventions.
Other advantages included the ability of private mercenaries to engage in unlawful activities (such as extraordinary rendition**), for which regular forces would be subject to court martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice – and a massive gravy train of unmonitored, no-bid contracts for wealthy Republican donors. In June 2004, after only fifteen months of US occupation, $9 billion of Iraqi reconstruction funds were unaccounted for.
The Blackwater Lodge and Training Center
Blackwater itself was first formed in 1996. It felled a big hole in training capacity, particularly in the Navy, resulting from Cheney’s extensive DOD cuts. Former Navy SEALS Erik Prince and Al Clark initially established the Blackwater Lodge and Training Center in North Carolina to offer private tactical training to Special Forces and local law enforcement personnel. A long time SEAL trainer, Clark supplied the concept. Prince, who came from a wealthy conservative Christian family, bankrolled it.
In 2002, Blackwater branched out into providing personnel as well as training. Their first contract would be to provide twenty security guards for Kabul’s CIA station in Afghanistan. In 2003, the State Department would award their largest documented (non-classified) contract providing security for US officials in Iraq. This included a $27.7 million no-bid contract to protect Paul Bremer. Bremer, who Bush appointed to run Iraq during the US occupation, quickly became the most hated man in Iraq.
Iraqi Resistance to Occupation
The book provides an interesting historical perspective on the rise of the Iraqi resistance movement in reaction to the virtual takeover of Iraq by US corporate interests. Contrary to the US media portrayal of the Iraqi opposition as al Qaeda terrorists, it was a genuine home grown movement which formed in reaction to Bremer’s refusal to allow free elections and his de-Baathification program. The latter instantly plunged the vast majority of Iraqis into abject misery. In addition to decommissioning 350,000 former Iraqi troops, it also threw hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, teachers, government workers out of work (who were required to join the Baath party as a condition of employment). The loss of these front line personnel would result in the total collapse of Iraqi society.
As Scahill carefully documents, the original Iraqi resistance was peaceful and nonviolent until the US military and Blackwater contractors deliberately fired on peaceful civilian protestors.
Blackwater and other mercenaries are typically paid $600-800 a day for mercenaries. This contrasts with an average of $270 a day for active duty GIs.
The Ambush in Fallujah
Blackwater devotes five chapters to the horrific ambush in Fallujah on March 30, 2004, in which a local mob killed, burned and dismembered four Blackwater contractors before hanging them from a bridge. It was this event that would bring Blackwater to world attention, while setting off a chain of events that would compel (due to an overstretched enlisted force) the Pentagon to hire Blackwater and other private security contractors* as mercenary soldiers in Iraq.
At a pay rate of $600-800 a day (in contrast to an average of $270 for active duty GIs), private security companies had no difficulty recruiting mercenaries. In fact, the worse the violence got, the more profits rolled in for Blackwater.
By June 2004, there were 20,000 private mercenaries in Iraq. By the time Rumsfeld resigned in 2006, there was a one to one ratio between troops and mercenary soldiers maintaining the US occupation in Iraq (100,000 mercenaries vs 100,000 troops).
In 2004-2005, the Blackwater role expanded to guarding the US oil industries pipeline in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, to “protecting” FEMA reconstruction contracts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and to providing immigration security at the Mexican border. By 2007, Blackwater had 2300 private soldiers fighting in nine countries, as well as a database of 22,000 former troops, special forces operatives and retired law enforcement officers who could be deployed at short notice.
Immunity from Prosecution
As of 2013, when Scahill published the revised edition, no Blackwater contractors had ever been prosecuted for criminal human rights abuses. Under an edict Bremer enacted in 2004, US mercenaries were immune from prosecution under Iraqi law. Prosecuting them in American courts is extremely difficult owing to the difficulty of transporting foreign witnesses to the US. However in October 2014, a Washington DC federal district court found four of them guilty of murder and manslaughter for the 2007 shooting of seventeen civilians in Baghdad.
Erick Prince sold Blackwater in 2010 and it has since merged with its main rival Triple Canopy to form Academi. Although Blackwater was banned from Iraq in 2009,  Academi still provides security for State Department personnel across many countries.They also continue to receive contracts from the Defense Department and US intelligence agencies.
Links to free epub and kindle versions of Blackwater are available at Blackwater the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

*In the mid-1990s, the Croatian military was dominated by right-wing Nazi sympathizers similar to those in the present Ukrainian government.
** Extraordinary or irregular rendition is the US sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person to countries known to practice torture. It’s also known as torture by proxy.
***Other companies that entered the lucrative mercenary market in 2004 include Control Risks Group, DynCorp, Erinys, Algis, Armor Group, Hart, Kroll and Steele Foundation. British security contractors were also extremely pro-active in Iraq. By October 2006, there were 21,000 British mercenaries in Iraq, in contrast with 7.200 conventional duty troops.

Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

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Her first book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee describes the circumstances that led her to leave the US in 2002. She has also published two young adult novels about political activism: The Battle for Tomorrow: A Fable

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Murder, Inc?

Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims'

By Keith Olberman and Jeremy Scahill

MSNBC Broadcast August 04, 2009 - See Part 2 Below Broadcast August 05, 2009


Transcript For August 04, 2009
OLBERMANN: The slaughter of civilians for sport, weapons smuggling, destruction of evidence, wholesale corruption and finally murder. In our third story on the COUNTDOWN, a full-fledged criminal enterprise executed by the military contractors known formally as Blackwater, according to the sworn testimony of two of its employees. "The Nation's" Jeremy Scahill, who broke the story, joins us in a moment.
The details come straight from two sworn affidavits filed late last night by persons who identities have been sealed to protect their identity, men who have previously cooperated with federal prosecutors in the criminal inquiry into Blackwater. From John Doe number two, a former member of Blackwater's management team, quoting the affidavit, "it appears that Mr. Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder, and his employees murdered or had murdered one or more persons who had provided information or were planning on providing information to the federal authorities about the ongoing criminal conduct. On several occasions after my departure from Mr. Prince's employ, Mr. Prince's management has personally threatened me with death and violence."
John Doe number two also stating that Mr. Prince, pictured here, smuggled unlawful weapons into Iraq, including sawed-off, semi-automatic machine guns with silencers and illegal hand grenades. The affidavit also says that Prince, quote, "views himself as a Christian crusader eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe. To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the crusades. Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game."
Striking similar allegations made in the affidavit of John Doe number one, a former U.S. marine who worked for Blackwater in Iraq. He alleges that incidences of unjustified deadly force were initially videotaped and watched in a session called a Hot Wash. Blackwater, now known as XE Services, spelled XE, maintains that Mr. Prince and the company are innocent of any wrongdoing and performed their duties on behalf of their employer, the State Department.
Joining me now, as promised, the contributor to "The Nation Magazine" and author of "Blackwater, the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," Jeremy Scahill. Good to see you. Thanks for coming in.
JEREMY SCAHILL, "THE NATION": Thanks for having me back, Keith.
OLBERMANN: As horrific as all this sounds, it's just part of what you described in the piece today. Flesh it out for us.
SCAHILL: Obviously to hear the term murder and Blackwater in the same sentence is no great surprise, particularly to people who have been following the history of this company. It's been at the center of some of the worst violence of in Iraq, killing civilians repeatedly. Five of its men are going to be tried on manslaughter charges for the Nisr (ph) Square Massacre in Baghdad in September '07. Another one pled guilty.
The Congress is investigating. The IRS is investigating. This is a scandal-plagued company.
What is explosive about what's happened here-and you just went through some of the most explosive of these details-is that you have two former Blackwater officials. I have learned from sources that's John Doe number two was actually in Blackwater management and was privy to some of the inner workings of the company.
Erik Prince, the owner of Blackwater, remains the sole owner of the company, no matter that he stepped down as CEO and founder of the company. He micro-manages every aspect of Blackwater's operations and that's been well known.
On the Christian supremacist angle, let's remember that Erik Prince viewed Blackwater as a neo-crusader force and has from the beginning. This is a guy who comes from the powerhouse of the radical religious right. His father was a major bank roller and gave the seed money to Gary Bauer to start the Family Research Council, James Dobson, Focus on the Family.
And then we have his force employed in Iraq as part of a war against a Muslim nation that George Bush characterized as a crusade. What we have here, Keith, is a confirmation from insiders at Blackwater that, in fact, Erik Prince did have a neo-crusader agenda, and, most explosively, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were intending to or did cooperate in the federal government's criminal investigation of Blackwater.
This is deadly serious.
OLBERMANN: To the murder in a second. But you mentioned something in here that strikes an obvious question. How could the Bush administration's State Department have missed this crusader element here, or was that what they were looking for?
SCAHILL: Missed it? I think it was considered a plus in the Bush White House. Remember, Keith, what we had here was the Bush administration essentially create a force that acted as an armed wing of the administration, not subject to the military command, not subject to the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, that reported directly to George Bush's secretary of state and then to the president.
These were his men, his private force in Baghdad. And the allegations that they were running around shooting Iraqis as part of a war to eliminate Islam globally, as is actually what one of these individuals said, is extremely disturbing to anyone who believes in any semblance of Constitution, law or human rights.
OLBERMANN: Some specifics, to what you know about them. This is a strong term murder in court documents. This is under oath. This is not somebody throwing something up against a wall to see if it will stick. Are we talking about something related to the 2007 Baghdad Massacre or something here?
SCAHILL: It's unclear but I will tell you what I do know about this, Keith. The fact of the matter is that these individuals, in these sworn depositions, provided those depositions to lawyers, Susan Burke and the Center for Constitution Rights, that are suing Blackwater on behalf of Iraqis killed by Blackwater operatives in Iraq. They are suing them in civil litigation.
What we do know is that these same individuals say that they gave this identical information to the federal government, one of them in Grand Jury testimony, as part of the on-going criminal investigation. When I called the Justice Department and asked specifically, are you investigating Erik Prince on allegations that he was involved with murder, the Justice Department interestingly said that they would not confirm or deny any action that they may or may not be taking against uncharged individuals.
Erik Prince, according to the lawyers suing Blackwater, could be eligible for murder charges in both Virginia and the state of North Carolina under this existing law. That's the argument they're making in their motion that was filed late last night in the Eastern District of Virginia.
OLBERMANN: Jeremy Scahill, who has been the watchdog on Blackwater, now Xe, of "The Nation," who brought this story to everyone's attention today. Great thanks for doing so and great thanks for coming in.
SCAHILL: Thank you, Keith.
Update - MSNBC Broadcast August 05, 2009
Blackwater Founder's Visions of Christian Supremacy in Iraq

By Kevin Gosztola
Open Salon --- Explosive allegations concerning Blackwater have recently become public in a bombshell of a story published by Jeremy Scahill, a man who has been on the Blackwater beat for years now.
Two individuals, a former employee and a Marine who used to work as a security operative, allege that Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, may have murdered or assisted in the murders of individuals who were helping federal authorities investigate his company.
What’s striking isn’t that Blackwater and murder is in the news. Blackwater has a history of being linked to allegations of murder (for example, the Nissour Square killings on September 16, 2007).
The most salient part of this news are the words written in a five page declaration by a former member of Blackwater’s management team, who is being referred to as “John Doe #2” because he fears he may face violent retaliation if his identity is found out.
Doe #2 alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe":
To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.
Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince's executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to "lay Hajiis out on cardboard." Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game. Mr. Prince's employees openly and consistently used racist and derogatory terms for Iraqis and other Arabs, such as "ragheads" or "hajiis."
That Erik Prince may have been involved in murders of people cooperating with investigations of his company isn't as important as the fact that if this is true he murdered because he felt compelled by a higher power to do so.
Jeremy Scahill, a journalist for The Nation and the man who broke this news story yesterday, discussed Prince’s Christian supremacist ideology on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann yesterday night.
“…let`s remember that Erik Prince viewed Blackwater as a neo-crusader force and has from the beginning. This is a guy who comes from the powerhouse of the radical religious right. His father was a major bank roller and gave the seed money to Gary Bauer to start the Family Research Council, James Dobson, Focus on the Family.
And then we have his force employed in Iraq as part of a war against a Muslim nation that George Bush characterized as a crusade. What we have here, Keith, is a confirmation from insiders at Blackwater that, in fact, Erik Prince did have a neo-crusader agenda, and, most explosively, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were intending to or did cooperate in the federal government`s criminal investigation of Blackwater…”
When asked how Bush could have missed the “crusader element,” Scahill rightfully explained that Bush viewed this as a “plus” and did not miss it.
Scahill said, “These were his men, his private force in Baghdad. And the allegations that they were running around shooting Iraqis as part of a war to eliminate Islam globally, as is actually what one of these individuals said, is extremely disturbing to anyone who believes in any semblance of Constitution, law or human rights.
Robert Weitzel, in an article titled, “U.S.’s Military Crusade for Christ,” writes that “Prince envisions an evangelical “end time” role for his warriors, “Everybody carries guns, just like Jeremiah rebuilding the temple in Israel—a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other.””
Prince has served on the board of directors of Christian Freedom International, a “crusading missionary organization operating in the overwhelmingly Islamic countries of Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Prince is and has been one of many leaders who have been using forces and violence because of what they believe. When considering other crusader elements that have played a role in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the entire “war on terror,” it becomes more apparent that the U.S. is waging violence in a calculated manner similar to Islamic jihad and many are doing it for religious reasons like Islamic jihadists, aiming to advance a Christian supremacist agenda.
In 2007, Operation Stand Up planned to send “freedom packages” to soldiers and Marines in Iraq that would have contained Bibles and “the apocalyptic video game, "Left Behind: Eternal Forces,” where “Christians carry on warfare against people of other faiths.” (The Military Religious Freedom Foundation prevented the packages from being sent.)
Campus Crusade for Christ (known as “cru” on college campuses) has been providing weekly “God’s Basic Training” programs to the U.S. Air Force Academy so that “‘government paid missionaries’ can complete their training.”
Televangelist John Hagee, a pastor of a 16,000 member church with millions of viewers a week, preaches “that in order to bring about the Second Coming of Christ and the Rapture of true believers, Islam first has to be destroyed.”

In an interview on NPR, Hagee, who Americans may remember from John McCain’s presidential campaign, said on Fresh Air in September of 2006:
GROSS: Pastor Hagee, if you believe that the Bible takes precedence over Washington, D.C., I would assume maybe you'd think the Bible takes precedence over the Israeli government as well. If you use the Bible as the basis of policy, is there any room for compromise? And if you use the Bible as the basis for policy, then should Muslims be using the Quran as the basis of their policy? And again, what possible room for compromise is there at that point?
HAGEE: There's really no room for compromise between radical Islam and --
GROSS: I'm not talking about radical Islam. I'm just talking about Islam in general.
HAGEE: Well, Islam in general, those who live by the Quran have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews. Now, I had an Islamic on my television show last week. His name was Walid Shoebat. He was raised as a Palestinian terrorist and at one time was -- placed a bomb and was supposed to walk into a bank. And I said, "Walid, I'm trying to understand the definition of what is a radical Islamic person, because I've read many books, many magazines and I can't come up with a good definition of what constitutes a radical Islamic." And he says these words, and I'll quote them, he said, "Anyone who truly believes the Quran is willing to kill Christians or Jews. That's waging jihad." He said, "Now, those people who are willing to go into another country and start a war will only be about 15 to 20 percent of Islam."
There are 1.3 billion people who follow the Islamic faith, so if you're saying there's only 15 percent that want to come to America or invade Israel to crush it, you're only talking about 200 million people. That's far more than Hitler and Japan and Italy and all of the axis powers in World War II had under arms. That is a massive number of people. So while we may define radical Islam as a minority, because there are so many, it is still an overpowering military potential.
Bush once thanked Hagee for “spreading the hope of God's love and the universal gift of freedom."
If you recall, in May, GQ got a hold of “briefing covers” showing that briefings from Rumsfeld and elite Pentagon strategists on progress in Iraq came illustrated by “victorious quotes from the Bible and gung-ho photographs of U.S. troops.”

Major General Glen Shaffer, the director for intelligence serving Mr Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a devout Christian dressed the briefings up with religious themes and Bush read them and accepted that what was happening in Iraq as part of his “mission from God.”

The latest news from Iraq reported by the Jerusalem Post is that Iran’s Fars news agency is claiming the CIA and Mossad have been “actively promoting Christianity in the Kurdish region of Iraq.”
The agency claims Americans and Israelis have been “offering $1,000 to any youngster willing to convert to Christianity.”
To those who have read the opening chapters of Reza Aslan’s How to Win a Cosmic War or for those familiar with the core ideas of his book, you know how dangerous it is that American foreign policy is so entangled with Christian supremacist forces in America.
Aslan argues, for the most part, that the way to win a cosmic war (how he characterizes “the war on terror”) is to not fight it. But, Christian supremacists acting based on what they believe about end times will never choose to not fight.
So long as people like Erik Prince and others with views similar to him influence foreign policy or play a role in carrying out America’s foreign policy goals and objectives, Americans can count on hearing more news of torture and abuse of Muslims, more news of murder and mass killings of Muslims, and more news proselytizing and attempts to convert Muslims.
We can count on a bloody war on Islam to continue under the guise of the "war on terror."

UPDATE 1
For additional reading on how Christian supremacist ideology is transforming the U.S. military, check out Jeff Sharlet's article from Harper's, which was published in May of this year.

Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military