Friday, December 15, 2023
Thursday, December 14, 2023
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Talk of Genocide
I often tell people that since the inception of the Israeli state, even before that, Zionist leaders of Israel have openly declared that their intentions are to launch and continue a campaign of genocide against the people of the Nation of Palestine; to exterminate or drive out all Arabs from Palestine so they can take the land for themselves. Here are several quotes to illustrate this:
Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, said in 1895, “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly”
Chaim Weizmann, a Zionist leader, the President of the Zionist Organization and the President of Israel from 1949-1952, said in 1920, “We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.”
The Israeli Prime Minster Levi Eshkol said this about Gaza in 1967, “I want them all to go, even if they go to the moon. We’ll deprive Gaza of water, and the Arabs will leave.”
Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir said in 1969, "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people. It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist. How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.”
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said in 1982, "[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."
Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, said in 1989, "Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon said in 1998, "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. Everybody has to move, run and grab as many Palestinian hilltops as they can to enlarge the Jewish settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them.”
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said in 1937, “We must expel the Arabs and take their place and if we have to use force, to guarantee our own right to settle in those places – then we have force at our disposal.” and again in 1948, he said, “We must expel Arabs and take their places. We must do everything to insure they never do return.”
Defense Minister of Israel Moshe Dayan said in 1969, “We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village”
The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces Raphael Eitan said 1983, “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” He also said in 1983, “We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Israel. Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.”
The Speaker of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin said in 2014, “What is required now is that we internalize the fact that Oslo [Accord] is finished, that this is our country - our country exclusively, including Gaza. There are no two states, and there are no two peoples. There is only one state for one people.” In 2016, he also said, “After the IDF completes the ‘softening’ of the targets with its fire-power, the IDF will conquer the entire Gaza, using all the means necessary to minimize any harm to our soldiers, with no other considerations… Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever. Subsequent to the elimination of terror from Gaza, it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel. The coastal train line will be extended, as soon as possible, to reach the entire length of Gaza.”
Israel Koenig, the author of “The Koenig Memorandum" that called for the Judaization of the Galilee, or Northern Israel, said in 1977, “We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (referring to getting rid of Palestinian Israelis) said in 2015, “Anyone who’s with us should be given everything – up to half the kingdom. Anyone who’s against us, there’s nothing to do – we should raise an axe and cut off his head.”
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said in 1920, “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail”
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin when he was a General in the IDF said in 1948, “We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters”
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said in 2014, “The entire Palestinian people is the enemy. Destroy Palestine, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure. Kill Palestinian mothers of little snakes.”
Prime Minister of Israel Moshe Sharett said in 1955, “This state of Israel has no international obligations, no economic problems, the question of peace is non-existent. It must calculate its steps narrow-mindedly and live by the sword .... It must invent non-existent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and retaliation.”
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in 2001, “Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
"Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University said in 2004, “The great American democracy could not have been achieved without the extermination of the Indians. There are cases in which the general and final good justifies difficult and cruel deeds that are carried out in the course of history."
Sprawling new developments obliterate the revival of Florida panthers
One development is an entire new city called “Kingston,” whose owner wants to build 10,000 homes, a hotel, and other businesses in a section of Lee County that’s supposed to be kept at a low density for groundwater recharge. Hey, it’s just our source of clean drinking water — it’s not like it’s something people really NEED.
The other, known as Bellmar, is one part of a new city, a village that will plop 8,600 new residents on land that’s virtually next door to the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Proposed Florida House bill may punish lawmakers who vote to remove historical monuments
FDOT to divvy up Hillsborough transportation sales tax fund
Gov. Ron DeSantis is pointing to the Florida Department of Transportation to divvy out the $570 million collected through the Hillsborough Transportation Sales Tax back in 2019 to 2021.....Read More
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Picadillo
With Black Beans and Rice
Huracan Supermarket
Sligh and Central, Tampa
Republican governors should end racial preferences at the state level
GOP governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Alabama’s Kay Ivey have been making splashy headlines for attacking diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards at companies like BlackRock and Disney. But the laws of their own states allow racial preferences in education, employment and public contracting. Before telling private companies how to do business, governors should get their own houses in order by working with their respective legislatures to end racial preferences and ensure equal treatment for all citizens.
In Florida, DeSantis’s home state, any county, municipality, community college or district school board can legally set aside up to 10 percent or more of its budget for goods and services only for minority-owned businesses. Other companies are forbidden from even bidding on those contracts — simply because of the business owner’s race.
Trial Starts In Battle Over Transgender Treatments In Florida
With the mother of a transgender girl testifying that it would be “devastating” if the child could not get treatment, a federal judge Wednesday began a trial in a constitutional challenge to Florida restrictions on such things as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender people.....Read More
Ten Rooms Ybor will be the new shopping and dining destination in the heart of the city
Located at 1536 E 7th Ave, Ten Rooms is described as a creative food/retail hub offering a thoughtful mix of art, dining experiences, shopping, small bites, and private event spaces, attentively bridging elements from Centro Ybor’s past, present, and future. Their Google listing currently indicates a December 28 opening; however nothing has been fully confirmed. Owners confirmed they were close to opening in a Facebook response back in November.....Read More
Tampa's new water tech removes "forever chemicals"
Tampa will be the first U.S. city to use new technology to eliminate dangerous chemicals in its water filtration process, officials announced Monday.....Read More
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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United Nations General Assembly passes resolution calling for Gaza cease-fire
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, where Israel is waging a war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas that has left more than 10,000 dead.....Read More
Netanyahu vows to block Palestinian Authority from Gaza rule
The Israeli prime minister has shot down ideas backed by the U.S. to install the Palestinian Authority in Gaza once the war with Hamas is over, but his Tuesday comments are the most forceful to date.
Netanyahu has also promised to exert security control over Gaza after the war, another point of contention with the U.S., which has warned against occupying the territory.
Be wary before scanning QR codes
As more people begin using QR codes, thieves looking to steal your money and other information are creating harmful links embedded into the code.
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), people are reporting that fraudsters are covering up legitimate QR codes with their own or sending texts and emails with fake QR codes.
The fake QR code could take you to a spoofed site that looks real. After you log in, your information could be stolen or malware could be installed.
In BDS win, PUMA forced to drop sponsorship of Israel Football Association
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding part of the BDS movement, welcomes the news that PUMA won’t be renewing its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA).....Read More
Freewheeling Whinge! Festival ready to launch in Ybor
Around the globe, fringe festivals have a reputation as freewheeling, anything-goes events where acts get the freedom to perform without a net. The annual Tampa International Fringe Festival is no different. The newly launched Whinge! Festival takes that unconstrained vibe to another level.
The new festival from the co-founders of the Tampa Fringe hits the Fringe Theatre and other venues inside the historic Ybor Kress Building on December 16th and 17th. There are only two rules. First, the acts have to be from the area. Roughly half are from Hillsborough. The rest are from Pinellas, Pasco, Sarasota and Orange counties.
Tickets and more info HERE
Monday, December 11, 2023
There’s Good in Ybor: Monday night gathering tries to grow unity in Ybor City after deadly shooting
When Jay Coachman grabbed his sticks of charcoal to start sketching out his latest painting Monday night, he had just four words in mind: Love is the answer.
And in just hours, he delivered a vibrant acrylic painting that personified that message. He painted the face of a woman — superimposed above the Tampa skyline — announcing those four words for all below to hear.
Hundreds gather in downtown Tampa to support immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Hundreds of people attended a rally Monday at City Hall in Tampa to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“We have over 20,000 eulogies to write, we have over 20,000 lives to grieve, but we also have over 2 million lives that we need to save,” community organizer Leali Shalabi said.
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Jerk Chicken
Rice and Cabbage
$6.49 Lunch Special
Hines Caribbean Cuisine
3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights
Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!
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