Submitted by Pachamama
President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama

Three out of four of the last presidents of the United States (POTUS) have launched last ditched ‘efforts’ in the dawning years of their tenures in faux attempts to ‘make peace between the Zionist regime and the Palestinians’. Barak Hussain Obama sensing his apogee moment has passed, that the people of the world have seen his actions as opposed to his soaring rhetoric, that the people now know his real interests as oppose to the pretenses, his militaristic nature as opposed to the lies concealed by the marketing of a million dollar smile, his self serving nature as opposed to a ‘plant’ as a community organizer, his absence of care for the least amongst us, his criminal nature as opposed to a practitioner of law, his determination to elevate himself as President as being of utmost importance. Now he looks forward to receiving the hundreds of millions of dollars his corporate sponsors have promised for services rendered and thus the Palestinian issue can be walked on as the signal for an exit, stage right.

Obama has given Black people everywhere a real look into the wickedness that is at the centre of political life in the USA. We were able, for the first time, to interpret Obama non-verbal communication more adroitly than we were ever able to with previous Presidents. This deeper understanding has revealed the true nature of Obama as the Commander-in-Chief of global wickedness. From day one he was more interested in his corporate buddies than the lofty promises made. In fact, after winning the election he quietly gave the Zionists permission to kill hundreds of Palestinian children on the condition that their blood would not stain his inauguration and the Israeli bombings, with depleted munitions supplied by America, could end with precision. This cold-hearted brute saw no contradiction when in a pre-election visit to Israel, to pay homage to APAC, was heard to have said that he would not tolerate rockets from Gaza falling where his children had to sleep, as to burnish his undying support of Israeli war crimes against the half-starved Palestinian people.

Obama has bragged that he is the best friend the Zionist state has had. He has given the Israelis whatever they wanted in spite of media reports that there were always tensions between himself and Netanyahu. But that was never the relationship that mattered. For it is his personal money runnings with mainly Jewish-American robber barons, APAC and the power of the ‘lobby’ that have their finger on the scale of justice to weigh in on the Israeli side. These patently unfair, self-serving negotiations are not about the interests of the Palestinian people, they never were.  Since Oslo, and before and after, negotiations have been used by the criminal Israelis and Americans to change the facts on the ground – to steal more and more Palestinian lands. They were never about any fleeting two-state-solution, an outcome that is now impossible. That Mahmood Abbas/Abu Mazen could agree to this charade reeks of more humiliation for the Palestinian people. A people, though international law is heavily on their side, inspite of more than 60 UN Resolutions in their favor and many more vetoed by Obama wicked hegemonic regime, the expansionist tendencies of the colonial outpost of Empire, the erection of an Apartheid Wall on Palestinian lands and the daily humiliation, murder and imprisonment of Palestinians by an Apartheid state, never seems to be able to receive justice from the hegemonic powers which control the world.

While Obama is busily burnishing his resume for a life after the White House, his performance therein has been abysmal on nearly all issues. So whether we are talking about abortive health care agenda, the protection of the middle classes, the closing of Guantanamo Bay, the withdrawal from Iraq, rapprochement with Iran, immigration justice, and economic management of the Federal budget, reigning in the excesses of the Wall Street oligarchs or increasing livable jobs, Obama has failed comprehensively. However, there have also some things he has been highly successful at. All of these served the furtherance of the quick march on the road to what Sheldon Wolin best describes as an inverted totalitarian regime.  An inversion of totalitarianism means that you pretend to be a ‘democracy’. You pretend to have social and economic freedoms. You pretend to have a free media. You pretend to have all the trappings of regular elections and so forth while at the same time you consolidate the greatest levels of wealth into the hands of the .001 percent, mainly large corporation. While this is happening you also complete the building of a massive surveillance state to monitor all the activities of Americans and you make sure that the same people who control that intelligence network are the same corporations which control the military, which control politics, which control commerce. The wickedly Great Benito Mussolini and his sidekick Adolph Hitler could only dream about these staggering levels of organizational sophistication.

So Obama is starting to raise his gaze to an early retirement. He will be looking forward to a time when he can enjoy the fruits of his labour, in the service of the majors. We estimate that actors from the military-industrial-intelligence-complex, that he has surrendered the American people and other peoples of the world to, will keep their promises and deliver a substantial gratuity. In addition, like Bill Clinton, there will be substantial speaking fees and he like Clinton might even be appointed Viceroy of a country like Haiti. Meanwhile all the people on whose shoulders he climbed to get to the White House will be in substantially worse socio-economic positions. What is this nonsense about, having a so-called Black man in a White House again, tell us! This is the legacy of Obama. A legacy that none of the pressing concerns of the poor, the jobless, the sick and the disfigured by war have a chance to disrupt. We expect that you will be seeking a big propaganda push to protect this ‘legacy’. For it must always be about what is good for Obama before any consideration could be given to any of his supporters, but the few

125 responses to “A Failed Presidency, the Palestinian Issue and the Rise of a Pernicious ‘Inverted Totalitarianism’”


  1. @Georgie Porgie and Zoe
    Suppose the BIBLE is wrong, what then? Of course you will insist that the BIBLE cannot be wrong, but where is the evidence that it is right. Where is the archeological or physical evidence to support your postulations? I am like Thomas “unless I see it with my eyes or touch it I will not believe.” We are told that Thomas was showed the physical evidence, where is yours?


  2. Alvin………….i know, but some will tell you to each his own. What concerns me is that some people will not want to acknowledge United Nations Laws about massive crimes against humanity until it starts applying to them, they figure it does not affect them so they can pretend these laws don’t exist, then when all falls down as will happen very shortly, these same dumb asses will want the UN Laws to rescue them. These will be the same people upfront crying and begging to be rescued, but they are totally unable to see what is right in front of them today. A mess Alvin.


  3. @Alvin It is the very fact that we have the HAMAS-PLO division and which of them is recognized by Israel-US that sight of resolution seems farm off.

    On 6 August 2013 18:00, Barbados Underground


  4. @Georgie Porgie,
    Forgot to remind you that the essence of the discussion is not the religious aspect of the apocrypha, but the present fate of the Palestinian people and their legitimate cries…indeed…pleas… for justice from an uncaring world.

  5. Georgie Porgie Avatar

    Alvin sir!
    Where is the evidence that you have incurred the wrath of people like GP and Zoe. We have just put forward our view.

    Why are you suggesting that we are any more unbiased than you Sir? Why are you suggesting that you give a clearer opinion?
    We have given our Biblical perspective

    If the Bible is wrong- no problem. I would not have lost anything.

    Have you read Unger’s two books on Biblical Archaeology?

    And how can you expect an archaeology on aspects of doctrine of the second coming- EVENTS WHICH ARE YET FUTURE?

    We are told that John was given a clear vision concerning the merging of all the OT PROPHESIS ENTERING FROM THEIR SEVERAL TRIBITUARIES INTO THE FLOWING RIVER OF REVELATION. How can you correctly interpret the flow of the RIVER OF REVELATION, when you have not grasped individually the teachings of the tributaries.

    Please kindly note Sir that neither Zoe or I have quoted NOTHING from the apocrypha,

    Please kindly note too that the present hulabaloo concerning the “Palestinian people” was predicted in the OT Scriptures, that you clearly have not grasped.

    Please kindly note too that the present hulabaloo concerning the “Palestinian people” cannot be divorced from your discussion when you consider who the so called “Palestinian people”

    As I said before, you have your view, we have ours, AND WE WILL EXPRESS THEM.

    FINALLY THE SCRIPTURES TEACH THAT YOU BELIEVE FIRST ……..THEN YOU KNOW.

    AND SO IT IS WITH US SECULARLY WE “KNOW” WHAT WE BELIEVE
    AND SO IT IS WITH YOU SIR YOU “KNOW” WHAT YOU BELIEVE

  6. St George's Dragon Avatar
    St George’s Dragon

    All these posts by Pachamama are the same. An angry off-the-wall analysis of a topic that bears little or no resemblance to what I see happening in my world – the real everyday one – but no suggestions for what should be done.


  7. @Georgie Porgie
    Things written in capitals are written so for emphasis. So if you write in caps than I deduce that you wish to emphasize those points, thus my conclusion. You have based your perspective on the Bible, so if the Bible is wrong your perspective must then be flawed. When John wrote the book of Revelation, he was near the end of his days; after spending many years in the mines, and long periods of incarceration. He was very much at odds with the “new” christian philosophies, and he was subject to periods of hallucinations..thus the book of the Revelations. Interesting philosophical discussion…”do we really “know” what we believe, or do we believe what we know”? How do we get to know? Can we “know” without believing? Can we believe without knowing?
    Please note too that the”hullabaloo” is not new. This “hullabaloo” was raised since the Partition of Palestine in the 1950s, reinforced during the terrorism years pre 1967, and since the occupation of Palestinian lands and has not ceased since. As far as the second coming is concerned, the Jews expected a second coming even prior to Jesus’ preaching. They felt that his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, at the Passover feast” signaled the begining of the end of Roman Rule.Thad did not come to pass, and preachers are still holding this hope before the multitudes that give of their hard earned dollars, as a means of getting into “the promised land”…see the allegory here? Isn’t this where Moses is supposed to hqve led his people…to the promised land?
    @David. The impasse will continue because the PLO is not the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. It is the organization the U>S> and Israel would prefer to represent them but they do not want it. The U.S will never recognize Hamas because they will not recognize and accept the false state of Israel..a creature of a group of politicians and a flawed organization which at the time was dominated by the strength of the U.S. How is it that no Jew, or American has ever been brought before the Gourt at the Hague…while Black leaders and some Europeans have been brought tried and sentenced. Have neither Jews nor Americans committed crimes against humanity? The evidence shows otherwise.

  8. Georgie Porgie Avatar

    ALVIN
    its hopeless discussing Biblical issues with you
    you just dont know what you are talking about
    have not heard or read such rubbish in 40 years studying the WORD

    When John wrote the book of Revelation, he was near the end of his days; after spending many years in the mines, and long periods of incarceration. He was very much at odds with the “new” christian philosophies, and he was subject to periods of hallucinations..thus the book of the Revelations

    hAVE YOU EVER READ OR HEARD OR UNDERSTAND WHAT 2 Peter 1:21 MEANS ?
    For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

    WITH RESPECT TO THE WORD OF GOD
    ” we really “know” what we believe ”?

    How do we get to know? THE SPIRIT OF GOD TEACHES US TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD OF GOD
    Can we “know” without believing? NO
    Can we believe without knowing? YES

    hERE IS MY SUGGESTION.
    YOU GO YOUR WAY LET ME GO MINE THANKS
    YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW AND YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE
    SO DO I AND I HAVE JUST AS GOOD A REASON FOR MY POSITION AS YOU PROBABLY DO FOR YOURS OK?


  9. We live in a world which is going to hell in a hand basket. We continue to see a failure of corporate governance, deficient regulatory systems, continuing unrest in foreign lands and the like. We have someone who is prepared to put another view of the mess on the table and we take delight in crucifying the messenger. It is as if we have become so stereotyped in how we distilled issues.

  10. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ alvin cummins | August 6, 2013 at 3:48 PM |

    Is that you, Alvin?
    Have you had a Damascene moment and saw the bright Light on the road to Truth & Justice?
    Or are you suffering from what you claim afflicted John in his old age of revealing schizophrenic discord of demented proportions?

    Well, if David BU and to a lesser extent the miller have been able to save Alvin Cummins from travelling further down the cul-de-sac of dark dank ignorance on international trade and monetary matters there is every hope Bushie can convert the miller and island girl to believe in his BBE.


  11. I applaud Alvin for peeling off the layers and exposing some of the biblical and political roots stagnating the middle east conflict……. Continue Alvin…….I will read very interesting .


  12. Yagga Rowe you can’t reason with the Taliban in here all they want is to say they are right about the end of the world. You and I know better than that. Imagine so called EDUCATED people in here talking so much stupidity. If that is what religion and the bible does to people I prefer to live without it. Yagga I like your style, keep it up!

    Miller you know that Bushie can never convert you nor me to believe in his BBE even if you all save those arsine fools Alvin and GP. SMH What a lotta shoite dem spewing!


  13. The Anti-Christ … HA HA HA … Well this certainly adds validity to a Christ … So the best thing to do is to ignore the Hype about a Christ and then of course the concept of an Anti-Christ would be moot. I certainly know a thing or two about being labeled Anti- .. HA

    I got a time stamp just like David, so he can be feeling too special

    On 6 August 2013 19:07, Barbados Underground


  14. AC please go over to the Syphilis blog for some great laffs.


  15. Here is an example of why there will always be distrust by players in the ME of the role of the US. Morsi was kicked out of office by the military, the whole world knows it. Yet the US refuses to call it a coup because it means it would have to stop aid to Egypt.

    The Hypocrisy!!!


  16. @David
    Call me a fool BUT I could have sworn that Politics was and is all about Hypocrisy!


  17. Moneybrain said:

    Just his evaluation of BHO’s performance. It is not really his performance because of The Controllers!

    ________________________________________________

    Moneybrain………………….i finally got the who beautifully laid out 40 year plan and i know you know what it is and which particular country it is, the new one and only guv.


  18. Should read:

    the whole

  19. Georgie Porgie Avatar

    BAFFY
    HERE ARE SOME SCRIPTURES THAT IDENTIFY THE ANTICHRIST
    NOTE THAT THE GREEK WORD”ANTI” MEANS AGAINST OR INSTEAD OF
    1 John 2:22
    Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
    2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
    Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
    1 John 4:3
    And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
    Daniel 7:8
    I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
    Daniel 11:21
    In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
    2 John 1:7
    For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
    2 Thessalonians 2:3
    Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
    Matthew 24:24
    For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
    1 John 2:18
    Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
    Daniel 11:37
    He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.
    Revelation 13:1
    And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
    Revelation 13:11
    Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
    Daniel 7:25
    He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
    HIS FATE
    Revelation 19:20
    And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.


  20. MoneyBrain | August 6, 2013 at 5:56 PM |

    “@David
    Call me a fool BUT I could have sworn that Politics was and is all about Hypocrisy!

    You forgot to include religion as well Money Brain


  21. @Miller
    When my book (the third) comes out later;planning a book launch in September or thereabouts, you will be able to judge for yourself. I am what I have been all along. You see I think for myself, form my own opinions and reason. I will not quote Thessolonians etc. as “gospel” because it must be remembered that the Epistle of Paul to the thessolonians is just that…an epistle, or sermon to a group of people and represents Paul’s thoughts at that time. When a priest, reverend or any of these preach a sermon it is an epistle and must be treated as such. Sorry
    Grorgie Porgie, I am not trying to convert you or change you. You are stuck in your opinions because you obviously have complete and undying faith in the literal translation of the Bible. I am not that inclined and therefore I expect your reaction. Answer me one question. “When a person dies and is cremated, if they lived an ungodly life would they : in whatever form(ashes? dust? ethereal or whatever be subject to further hellfire? Would the be brought back t life to be condemned again?Does this seem logical to you?

  22. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Alvin Cummins | August 6, 2013 at 6:28 PM |
    “When a priest, reverend or any of these preach a sermon it is an epistle and must be treated as such. Sorry.”

    Sorry for what? Telling the truth? There is no difference between priest and a politician. Both are allowed to call themselves “Minister” and fool the masses including you with bullshit and lies.

    Unless your book is prepared to expose these con artists and bullshitters then it would be of no linguistic interest to me.


  23. Miller………………….the stuff is coming out in dribs and drabs, i know you are getting your share.


  24. @Miller
    There was a typographical error. I touched the enter button so the sentence did not continue as intended after “sorry” I did not mean that I was sorry for what I said, I meant to say “Sorry Georgie it will ….I agree with you the truth is the truth and when you read my book …as you must… you will see what I am talking about. I wish everyone on this blog would read it when it comes out. It is called “Yeshua A.K.A. The Nazarene. I am sure you will find it entertaining, challenging, and as one reviewer of the manuscript said “make [you] ask questions of [your]christian upbringing. Stand by for the launch and sales.


  25. @Miller, I really have to get a new computer the title should read “Yeshua A.K.A. Jesus the Nazarene” I am sure you will enjoy it. Have any of you looked at the Bible and its stories from a Political perspective? I wonder if Georgie Porgie has really read the book of Joshua and put it in its political, historical, and human perspective. How does he rationalize it in todays attitude toward genocide and ethnic cleansing/

  26. Georgie Porgie Avatar

    ALVIN
    THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THE UNGODLY ARE CONDEMNED ALREADY JOHN 3:36 THE VERB IS IN THE PAST TENSE. INDICATING THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE IN THIS STATE

    THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THE UNGODLY WILL BE JUDGED FOR BOTH THEIR UNGODLY ORAL AND MORAL ACTS [JUDE 14-16′]
    HOW THIS WILL HAPPEN IS NOT MY BUISNESS

    YOU CAN WORK OUT THE LOGIC AND LOGISTICS FOR YOU

    I CANT WORK OUT THE LOGIC OF LOTS THAT I HAVE LEARNED IN SCIENCE. I DONT LOSE ANY SLEEP ABOUT IT EITHER

  27. Georgie Porgie Avatar

    I DONT WANT TO READ YOUR BOOK. THANKS
    I HAVE A LARGE LIBRARY OF COMMENTARIES THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME.
    I CAN FIND BETTER USE FOR MY VALUABLE TIME

  28. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Alvin Cummins | August 6, 2013 at 7:11 PM |

    I promise you to have a look-see. Trust you are not plagiarizing or ‘ideas lifting’ (the literati equivalent of shoplifting) from well documented sources like “The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail”.

    You are allowed to ‘lift’ but only with clear acknowledgement of the origin of these controversial “facts’ about the real Yeshua the prince in exile and pretender to the title “INRI”.

    Here is another book to broaden your knowledge base about the real leader of the Essenes and the myths built around him in the Mysteries schools: “The Secret History Of The World” by Johnathan Black, especially Chapter 15.

    But then you can always dismiss it as a load of bonking bollocks and like me put your faith in rational analysis of “The God Delusion” with Richard Dawkins the eponymous ‘believing’ atheist.


  29. @Georgie Porgie’Judging without the evidence? Didn’t yur “book” also say “Judge not lest ye be judged’? This attitude is typical of many who existed at the time of Jesus, and against whom he railed constantly. Of course you would not want to read anything that is challenging to your beliefs, but as a contributor to this blog you should be prepared to have an open mind and willing to discuss everything.
    @Miller. Don”t worry any “lifting ” will be clearly acknowledged As I say to Georgie Porgie, judge for yourself..


  30. Meanwhile Obama still has a lot to do with regard to the rights of the Palestinians.


  31. kiss obama’s arse do




  32. Georgie Porgie Avatar

    Alvin Cummins | August 6, 2013 at 8:14 PM |
    @Georgie Porgie’Judging without the evidence? Didn’t yur “book” also say “Judge not lest ye be judged’?

    This statement was made by Jesus, as well as the one I quoted.

    For forty years I have read tomes by many of the established and renowned theologians

    I myself earned a doctorate in theology. I have read much here and there that is at variance with what I believe. Why do you think that you have anything that is new to say.

    as a contributor to this blog, I am prepared to read a bundle of thrash, but I close my mind to bovine excrement.

    Alvin Cummins | August 6, 2013 at 8:17 PM |
    Meanwhile Obama still has a lot to do with regard to the rights of the Palestinians.

    this is partially true
    in order for certain prophesies to be fulfilled, the antichrist will broker a FALSE peace between iSRAEL and her enemies round about

    Following this Israel will tear down the defensive walls that they are now erecting, and thus become vulnerable.Israel will then be attacked but will be rescued by the LORD OF HOSTS HIMSELF.

    nOW YOU CAN SCOFF AT THIS IF YOU WISH………BUT THAT IS WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.

    AND IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN SOON


  33. @Miller,History of the World and promise to read it in its entirety when my eyes get better. In the meantime along those lines I would recommend a book called The Field by Lynne McTaggart. quite fascinating. Based on what you are recomending I am sure you will enjoy it. It sets one thinking deeeply.@Island Gal. Your comment is puzzling.
    I had a look at the outline of the Secret


  34. @Island gal, sorry I accused you wrongfully. It was Just asking that I was addressing.


  35. The following are historic FACTS concerning how and when the terms “Palestine” and “Palestinian” were created deviously as HATED for the Jews and their ANCIENT homeland, “Israel” who existed well OVER a THOUSAND years BEFORE their last exile FROM JERUSALEM in 135 A.D. under Emperor Hadrian, who HATED them.

    The History and Meaning of “Palestine” and “Palestinians”

    “There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews . . . . Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us?

    The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation’s supposed ancient name, though they couldn’t even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity.” — Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995

    Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

    Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today . . . No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough. — from “Myths of the Middle East”, Joseph Farah, Arab-American editor and journalist, WorldNetDaily, 11 October 2000

    From the end of the Jewish state in antiquity to the beginning of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries . . . . — Professor Bernard Lewis, Commentary Magazine, January 1975

    Talk and writing about Israel and the Middle East feature the nouns “Palestine” and Palestinian”, and the phrases “Palestinian territory” and even “Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory”. All too often, these terms are used with regard to their historical or geographical meaning, so that the usage creates illusions rather than clarifies reality.

    What Does “Palestine” Mean?

    It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.

    The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection … with Arabia or Arabs.

    The word itself derives from “Peleshet”, a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as “Philistine”. The name began to be used in the Thirteenth Century BCE, for a wave of migrant “Sea Peoples” who came from the area of the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands and settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it “Palastina”.

    The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name “Falastin” that Arabs today use for “Palestine” is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman “Palastina” derived from the Peleshet.

    How Did the Land of Israel Become “Palestine”?

    In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.

    The Romans killed many Jews and sold many more in slavery. Some of those who survived still alive and free left the devastated country, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land. There was never a time when there were not Jews and Jewish communities, though the size and conditions of those communities fluctuated greatly.
    http://www.indaweb.com


  36. “The Romans killed many Jews and sold many more in slavery. Some of those who survived still alive and free left the devastated country, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land. There was never a time when there were not Jews and Jewish communities, though the size and conditions of those communities fluctuated greatly.”

    The History of Palestine

    “Thousands of years before the Romans invented “Palastina” the land had been known as “Canaan”. The Canaanites had many tiny city-states, each one at times independent and at times a vassal of an Egyptian or Hittite king. The Canaanites never united into a state.”

    “After the Exodus from Egypt — probably in the Thirteenth Century BCE but perhaps earlier — the Children of Israel settled in the land of Canaan. There they formed first a tribal confederation, and then the Biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and the post-Biblical kingdom of Judea.”

    “Israel-Judah-Judea has the only united, independent, sovereign nation-state that ever existed in “Palestine” west of the Jordan River.”

    “From the beginning of history to this day, Israel-Judah-Judea has the only united, independent, sovereign nation-state that ever existed in “Palestine” west of the Jordan River. (In Biblical times, Ammon, Moab and Edom as well as Israel had land east of the Jordan, but they disappeared in antiquity and no other nation took their place until the British invented Trans-Jordan in the 1920s.)”

    “After the Roman conquest of Judea, “Palastina” became a province of the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire, and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. In 638 CE, an Arab-Muslim Caliph took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced “Falastin”.

    “In that period, much of the mixed population of Palastina converted to Islam and adopted the Arabic language. They were subjects of a distant Caliph who ruled them from his capital, that was first in Damascus and later in Baghdad. They did not become a nation or an independent state, or develop a distinct society or culture.”

    “In 1099, Christian Crusaders from Europe conquered Palestina-Falastin. After 1099, it was never again under Arab rule. The Christian Crusader kingdom was politically independent, but never developed a national identity. It remained a military outpost of Christian Europe, and lasted less than 100 years. Thereafter, Palestine was joined to Syria as a subject province first of the Mameluks, ethnically mixed slave-warriors whose center was in Egypt, and then of the Ottoman Turks, whose capital was in Istanbul.”

    “During the First World War, the British took Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. At the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and among its subject provinces “Palestine” was assigned to the British, to govern temporarily as a mandate from the League of Nations”
    http://www.indaweb.com


  37. Oh Hell…
    Who resurrected Zoe?


  38. Mr. Cummins, You are IGNORANT (lacking knowledge and understanding) as IS* the majority of the world, re the HISTORIC FACTS and EVIDENCE, of ISRAEL’S over 3,000 years existence as a NATION, which coherently CONFIRMS the Biblical account and narrative of the Jew, ISRAEL. You have been FED a utter LIE, and have bought into it, like most of the worlds people.

    FACTS, Mr. Cummins, become credible FACTS, when they ARE warranted to the relevant degree of CERTAINTY.

    Who Is A Palestinian?

    “During the period of the Mandate, it was the Jewish population that was known as “Palestinians” including those who served in the British Army in World War II.”

    “Jews who might have developed the empty lands of ‘Palestine’ … instead died in the gas chambers of Europe”

    “British policy was to curtail their numbers and progressively limit Jewish immigration. By 1939, the White Paper virtually put an end to admission of Jews to Palestine. This policy was imposed the most stringently at the very time this Home was most desperately needed — after the rise of Nazi power in Europe. Jews who might have developed the empty lands of Palestine and left progeny there, instead died in the gas chambers of Europe or in the seas they were trying to cross to the Promised Land.”

    “At the same time that the British slammed the gates on Jews, they permitted or ignored massive illegal immigration into Western Palestine from Arab countries Jordan, Syria, Egypt, North Africa. In 1939, Winston Churchill noted that “So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied . . . .” Exact population statistics may be problematic, but it seems that by 1947 the number of Arabs west of the Jordan River was approximately triple of what it had been in 1900″.

    “The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in Palestine, until the Jews came and “displaced” them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into Palestine “displaced” the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in Palestine for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a “Palestinian refugees”.

    “Casual use of population statistics for Jews and Arabs in Palestine rarely consider how the proportions came to be. One factor was the British policy of keeping out Jews while bringing in Arabs. Another factor was the violence used to kill or drive out Jews even where they had been long established.”

    “For one example: The Jewish connection with Hebron goes back to Abraham, and there has been an Israelite/Jewish community there since Joshua long before it was King David’s first capital. In 1929, Arab rioters with the passive consent of the British — killed or drove out virtually the entire Jewish community.”

    “It is now often proposed as a principle of international law and morality that all places that the British and the Arabs rendered Judenrein must forever remain so.”

    “For another example: In 1948, Trans-Jordan seized much of Judea and Samaria (which they called The West Bank) and East Jerusalem and the Old City. They killed or drove out every Jew.”

    “It is now often proposed as a principle of international law and morality that all places that the British and the Arabs rendered Judenrein must forever remain so. In contrast, Israel eventually allotted 17 percent of Mandate Palestine has a large and growing population of Arab citizens.”

    From Palestine To Israel

    “What was to become of “Palestine” after the Mandate? This question was taken up by various British and international commissions and other bodies, culminating with the United Nations in 1947. During the various deliberations, Arab officials, spokesmen and writers expressed their views on “Palestine”.

    “There is NO such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it.” — Local Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937

    “There is NO such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not” — Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946″

    “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” — Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956″

    “By 1948, the Arabs had still not yet discovered their ancient nation of Falastin. When they were offered half of Palestine west of the Jordan River for a state, the offer was violently rejected. Six Arab states launched a war of annihilation against the nascent State of Israel. Their purpose was not to establish an independent Falastin. Their aim was to partition western Palestine amongst themselves.”

    “They did not succeed in killing Israel, but Trans-Jordan succeeded in taking Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and East Jerusalem, killing or driving out all the Jews who had lived in those places, and banning Jews of all nations from Jewish holy places. Egypt succeeded in taking the Gaza Strip. These two Arab states held these lands until 1967. Then they launched another war of annihilation against Israel, and in consequence lost the lands they had taken by war in 1948.”

    “During those 19 years, 1948-1967, Jordan and Egypt never offered to surrendar those lands to make up an independent state of Falastin. The “Palestinians” never sought it. Nobody in the world ever suggested it, much less demanded it”.

    “Finally, in 1964, the Palestine Liberation Movement was founded. Ahmed Shukairy, who less than 10 years earlier had denied the existence of Palestine, was its first chairman. Its charter proclaimed its sole purpose to be the destruction of Israel. To that end it helped to precipitate the Arab attack on Israel in 1967.”

    “The outcome of that attack then inspired an alteration in public rhetoric. As propaganda, it sounds better to speak of the liberation of Falastin than of the destruction of Israel. Much of the world, governments and media and public opinion, accept virtually without question of serious analysis the new-sprung myth of an Arab nation of Falastin, whose territory is unlawfully occupied by the Jews.”

    “Since the end of World War I, the Arabs of the Middle East and North Africa have been given independent states in 99.5 percent of the land they claimed. Lord Balfour once expressed his hope that when the Arabs had been given so much, they would “not begrudge” the Jews the “little notch” promised to them.”

    [Note: Some of the material cited above is drawn from the book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters.]
    http://www.indaweb.com


  39. OBAMA: HANDS OFF EGYPT!!!
    We must support the subordination of the military and police to civilian political and economic control and the stripping of the military and police of their stranglehold on the commanding heights of the national economy of Egypt. For a true representative governance to prevail the revolution must aim to free Egypt from military and police stranglehold over every aspect of national life. It is this process for a decisive change that we must all support.

    As it is US arms and money that give sustenance to the army and police, that oxygen must be cut off and this can only be achieved through direct action to educate and stir up the American public to oppose the strangulation of “democracy” in Egypt by their executive. Those who want a new and truly representative order in Egypt must turn directly to the American public as it is the US executive and sections of the US legislature that are the real enemies of a true and representative governance in Egypt. Egyptians must understand that when the American public learned about the true nature of the executive execution of the Vietnam War, this informed American public forced the executive to withdraw from Vietnam. The challenge facing both pro-military and anti-Morsi forces is that of coming together to bring the military and police under civilian control and order, foremost.

    What Egyptians must wake up to is the fact that the teargas, bullets, water cannons, the fighter jets, tanks, attack helicopters and all the weapons of mass intimidation being used against and to threaten them by the military and police have been paid for with American tax-payers’ money. It is therefore the American public and voters that the bullets and canisters collected plus all the evidence of US executive hands, meddling in the internal affairs of Egypt, must be directed at in an organised appeal. Every Egyptian living or sojourning in the US must make it their duty to appeal directly to their congressmen, senators and local executives of both the ruling Democratic Party and the Republican party to press the Obama administration to stop using tax payers’ money to fund the oppression and exploitation of the Egyptian people by the military and police. The American oxygen that keeps the military and police in power in Egypt can only be cut off by direct action of an awakened American public and voters.

    The murderous and meddling hands of Obama must be exposed and to the American public to give peaceful co-existence and a true representative governance a chance in Egypt. The twin purpose of the revolution is to bring the army and police under civilian control and to sever their stranglehold on the national economy in order for true freedom and justice and equal opportunity for all to prevail in Egypt. Such is the path to an inclusive and non-extractive political and economic order.

    The era of military and police domination and expropriation of every aspect of Egyptian socio-economic life is being brought to an end and the end is nigh and yet far away so far as Egyptians allow the security force to hoodwink them in order to keep having their way at the expense of the rest of society. Today in Egypt over 40% of the population is poor and strive to survive on less than two US dollars a day. Many sectors of the economy are restricted, through regulation, to the military-cum-police cabal and their businessmen side-kicks. For example, the media, iron and steel, automotive industry, alcoholic beverages and cement are all the extractive domains of politically connected businessmen and firms. The challenge facing the revolution therefore is the destruction and prevention of the development of these extractive political and economic institutions run by the narrow-minded ruling elite. Without inclusive political and economic institutions “democracy” becomes an illusion and only a counterfeit dollar note thrown into the begging hands of the blind.
    Egypt, please wake up and boldly tell the Obama administration and the voting American public to take back their fighter jets, attack helicopters and weapons of mass intimidation and suppression as without these Egyptians can remove from their backs military and police dictatorship and introduce a new era of political tolerance, pluralism, inclusive economic practice for peaceful co-existence. It is only the Obama administration that is standing in the way of a “people’s victory” over years of military dictatorship.
    OBAMA HANDS OFF EGYPT!!!

    Akyaaba Addai-Sebo
    Independent Consultant on National Interest and Preventive Diplomacy


  40. David

    Nice sentiments … You are evolving, which is a nice thing to see … But then again there are more than one person operating out of the BU household …

    Georgie

    I feel sorry for a whole lot of Jews, Indians, Middle Easterners, Far Easterners and Africans … bro’. Heaven gon’ be packed solid with an awful amount of White people … You and Zoe gon’ be seriously out numbered, like the sprinkling of Blacks in the Blue Box Cart Crop Over band (You would think that by now such a small minority of people would have been interbred by now … Wah wrong wid dis place nah ..?)


  41. BAF, wrote,

    Georgie

    “I feel sorry for a whole lot of Jews, Indians, Middle Easterners, Far Easterners and Africans … bro’. Heaven gon’ be packed solid with an awful amount of White people … You and Zoe gon’ be seriously out numbered, like the sprinkling of Blacks in the Blue Box Cart Crop Over band…”

    No BAF, it ain’t going to be like you think, hear it from God’s Word, in Rev. 7:9.

    “After these things I looked and behold, a GREAT multitude which NO one could NUMBER, of ALL NATIONS, TRIBES, PEOPLES and TONGUES, standing before the THRONE (of Almighty God in Heaven) and before the LAMB (The lord Jesus Christ) clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, (The king of Kings, and LORD of LORDS, The Lord Jesus Christ) Emphasis added.

    “A great multitude…” IS* ALL* the redeemed OUT of ALL people groups throughout all of history, EVERY colour, BLACKS, WHITE, BROWN, from every racial class across the NATIONS of the world.

    And this IS happening in Africa, China, Russia, the Middle East, South America, Asia, et al nations today, Millions are coming to Jesus Christ, finding Salvation in HIM Alone, with the attendant promise of PEACE, JOY, and PURPOSE here and NOW, and the great blessed HOPE of Eternal Rest with HIM, hereafter. Amen and Amen!


  42. The lord of global wickedness just snubbed Putin.

  43. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Zoe | August 7, 2013 at 11:02 AM |
    “After these things I looked and behold, a GREAT multitude which NO one could NUMBER, of ALL NATIONS, TRIBES, PEOPLES and TONGUES, standing before the THRONE (of Almighty God in Heaven) and before the LAMB (The lord Jesus Christ) clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, (The king of Kings, and LORD of LORDS, The Lord Jesus Christ) Emphasis added.
    “A great multitude…” IS* ALL* the redeemed OUT of ALL people groups throughout all of history, EVERY colour, BLACKS, WHITE, BROWN, from every racial class across the NATIONS of the world.”

    Sorry to ‘mimic’ you Zoe in your cutting & pasting pastime. But we are at a loss to establish the truthful consistency between what you wrote above about the all-embracing invitation to Heaven that can be issued only by the Lamb clothed in white and what you wrote so jingoistic about Jews being the only chosen ones of your God’s people to inherit the ‘Promised’ land called Heaven.

    Here is what you wrote earlier about the Jews who don’t give a rat’s ass about sweet Jesus lamb of god and if they had their way would write him out of history or even start a nuclear war before his return to save people like you Zoe, a religious nutter blessed with paranoid schizophrenia.

    “Zoe | August 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM |
    Zechariah 12: 1-9, This passage describes Almighty God’s judgment against the NATIONS, all, that attack Jerusalem, and its coming SOON, Both Jerusalem and Israel represent God’s people, His Covenated people, and ALL the surrounding PEOPLES, Arab, Islamist, Jihadists, et al, ARE the physical and spiritual ENEMIES of the Jews of Jerusalem and Israel. Almighty God’s manner of judgment ( I WILL STRIKE) will take many forms, as exemplified in the totality of biblical history. ARMAGEDDON! Coming SOON! STOP messing with ISRAEL!”

    Now explain yourself, madman!


  44. Show them Miller


  45. millertheanunnaki | August 7, 2013 at 12:13 PM |
    @ Zoe | August 7, 2013 at 11:02 AM |

    ZOE’S THEOLOGY IS SOUND

    HE HAS JUST EXPLAINED HOW ONE OF THE TRIBUTARIES OF OT PROPHESY FITS INTO THE RIVER OF THE NARRATIVE IN REVELATION.

    THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP IN JESUS’S TIME DID NOT CARE ABOUT JESUS WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT HIS AGENDA WAS NOT THEIRS.
    ALSO THEY COULD NOT DISTINGUISH HIM AS COMING AS THE LAMB TO TAKE AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD FROM HIS SOON SECOND ADVENT AS THE LION OF JUDAH.

    IF YOU DONT AGREE WITH US WHY NOT LEAVE US ALONE.

    YOU ARE JUST LIKE THE HOMOSEXUALS, THEY THINK THEY MUST FORCE US TO JOIN THEM

    IF YOU DONT AGREE WITH MY INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE, I DONT CARE, BUT YOUR NASTY REMARKS ABOUT THE LORD ARE RIDICULOUS.

    GO AHEAD YOU CAN CUSS ME TOO NOW

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