UNMIA

On this Santa Cruz, California TV Show, Becky Johnson and Lee Caplan examine the videos and other evidence of Rachel Corrie’s death, including IDF footage of the incident. The myths created about her death by those who sent her to her death, the International Solidarity Movement, are dispelled.

Video by Llanushkah

By Robert Kellner

My grandfather, August Friedrich Kellner, was a local court official in Germany during WWII. He was the chief justice inspector in the district court in Laubach, a small town in the Vogelsberg mountains north of Frankfurt. He spoke out against the Nazis and in March 1940 was called to account for his statements and almost sent to a concentration camp. After that harrowing experience he confined himself to writing down his thoughts in a diary that he titled “Mein Widerstand” (which can mean both “My Resistance” and “My Opposition”). His writings do not deal with the mundane daily events of life, but rather challenge the falsehoods of Nazi propaganda and record the inhuman atrocities committed by the Nazis. The entries in the diary read like today’s headlines, and Friedrich Kellner’s solution for the terrorism of his own time may be the answer for the terrorism confronting our generation.

Some of the diary entries refer to the murder of Russian prisoners of war, and to the execution of civilians as reprisals for resistance to German occupation. There are also entries verifying the deliberate genocide of the Jews and the Poles, …

Article from Ami Isseroff

Jews dancing in the streets on November 29, 1947 to celebrate the Palestine Partition Decision

This letter by Zipporah Porath, from her book, “Letters from Jerusalem 1947-1948,” was written the morning after the United Nations voted to approve the Partition of Palestine into two states, paving the way for the establishment of the State of Israel.

The decision of the United Nations to partition Palestine embodied in UN General Assembly Resolution 181 was greeted by Jewish Palestinians with both joy and foreboding. The joy was expressed in the spontaneous celebrations that broke out on the evening of November 29, 1947 throughout Mandatory Palestine. The foreboding was expressed by Jewish leaders, who understood that the partition decision would almost inevitably lead to war. Chaim Weizmann remarked in December that the state would not be handed to the Jewish people on a silver platter. Soon after, the poet Natan Alterman wrote the poem, The Silver Platter, about the heroism of the young people who would be called upon to defend their new country. About 6,000 Israelis were killed in the 1948 Israel War of Independence. (First Arab-Israeli war). But these thoughts were far from the …

The American Jewish Congress made a video commemorating the 60th anniversary of the UN approval of the partition, Resolution 181, that launched the State of Israel.