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Hundreds Rally in Sacramento to Save Darfur

by Gaia Prato
An estimated 200-300 people rallied Sunday April 29 at the West steps of the Capitol in Sacramento for a Save Darfur rally.
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An estimated 200-300 people rallied Sunday April 29 at the West steps of the Capitol in Sacramento for a Save Darfur rally. The event was organized by the African Peace and Conflict Center at CSUS, Sacramento Committee on Conscience and Sacramento City College Honors Program.
400,000 photos meant to represent those who have died since the start of the current conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan lined the sidewalks as a reminder of the suffering these people have endured.
Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have been killed in the Darfur region of the African country of Sudan by Sudanese government’s regular armed forces and the government-backed Janjaweed. Millions of innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has described the situation in Sudan and Chad as “the largest and most complex humanitarian problem on the globe.”
Member of the Sacramento Committee On Conscience Ian Lobel, 26, Sacramento, stressed the importance of community awareness when it comes to Sudan.
“You can still go up to most people and say the word 'Darfur' and they don't know what you are talking about,” Lobel said, “Anytime that there are more people who know about it then when it [the event] started, then that's a great event,” Lobel said.
Much like Adam Block, 27, Sacramento, who said that he attended the rally to learn more about the Darfur Conflict and how he could get involved.
“I believe that silence is complicity,” Block said. Block plans to research the conflict further and do what he can to help.
A fiery speech by Rabbi Rueven Taff urged the crowd to do everything they could to not allow the genocide to continue.
“We were silent in Bosnia, we were silent in Rawanda, we cannot be silent in Darfur,” Taff said.
After the speeches, a small crowd gathered around Rueven Taff, Dr. Albaqir Mukhtar El-Afifi, once an insider in the Sudanese government and a former fellow at the Institute of Peace in Washington, and Chris Opper to further discuss the genocide and possible solutions.
§Save Darfur Rally in Sacramento
by Gaia Prato
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by JA
I smell a ZIONIST rat!

As you may know, there is a "Global Day for Darfur Rally" on Sunday, April 29, at 4:00pm, at the San Francisco Civic Center, a charade set for Darfur rallies in cities across the country.

Reference KALW's "Your Call Radio" program on Darfur, Thursday, April 26 (What's Next in Darfur? [04.26.07], archived online).

This campaign against Sudan by certain white-American liberals reeks of HYPOCRISY and lack of genuine concern for the people of Darfur". It also reeks of STENCH from the Zionists and Israel lobby.

Zionists - who don't give a damn about black people or, quite apparently, anyone else - have a long history of trying to exploit blacks and black suffering, 'positively' or negatively, for the Zionists' own manipulative purposes. (Also see online, "Fraud Fit for a King", by Tim Wise.) And now they're manipulating *YOU*.

In addition, there is NO PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCE between the the government officials of Sudan, and the so-called Janjaweed, and the so-called "Arabs" and the black Africans: they are ALL BLACK and AFRICAN. This is why on American TV you never see video tape of the Janjaweed and the Sudanese government officials - because you could readily see that they are ALL black. In addition, Sudan is predominantly a Muslim country. This includes MOST of the black Africans in Sudan. In the Sudan "Arab" is as much a POLITICAL identity as anything else.

Just briefly Yahoo-search the names of the white guys on the KALW "Your Call Radio" interview and on KPFA "The Morning Show", April 27, in the 7:00am segment. On KALW it was Brian Steidle (a former U.S. Marine captain, and author of "The Devil Came on Horseback"), and on KPFA it was Nikki Serapio (coordinator for the S.F. Bay Area Darfur Coalition).

They're both HEAVILY promoted by seemingly every pro-Israel/Zionist institution across the country on their nationwide interview/speaking and/or rally tour. The other guy who appears with them, al-Taib Ibrahim (a.k.a. Al Taib/Tayyib Ibrahim Mohammed Khair??), who says he's originally from Darfur from the Khartoum area, said he was an advisor to the U.S. military!

The pro-Israel/Zionist and pro-Israel/Zionist front organizations (just the few that you can came across) specifically include, "The Jewish Council of Public Affairs", "The Jewish Community Relations Councils", "The Greater Washington Jewish Task Force on Darfur", The American Jewish World Services", "The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum" and, of course, "The Save Darfur Coalition"; lots of mainstream pro-Israel/Zionist Jewish-American rabbis support these guys; and Elie Wiesel (a virulent anti-Palestinian/anti-Arab racist) supports these guys. And these guys work very closely with pro-Israel/Zionist Jews who are members/associated with Zionist organizations.

Noticed that Steidle OPPOSED any sanctions against Israel. He expressed concern about the Darfur villages wiped out by the Janjaweed, but not about the some 400 Palestinian villages wiped out by the Israelis -- and who have been destroying Palestinian villages/neighborhoods to this day. Steidle says he believes in 'never again', but evidently not 'never again' for all oppressed genocidal or ethnic cleansing victims. If all these pro-Israel/Zionist organizations cared so much about black Africans, then why did they let Israel support apartheid South Africa for many years without the former's opposition?

This is all supposed to make Arabs look like ethnic oppressors, to deflect attention from the Israeli oppression of Palestinians, and to try to divide Arabs, Muslims and Blacks all over the world.

Go to any of these Darfur Coalition people and say that we should have and LINK sanctions, divestment and boycotts against BOTH oppressor governments to help BOTH oppressed peoples and see what the Darfur Coalition people say. That's how you smoke 'em out as hypocritical ZIONISTS!

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For further information see:

"Tragedy in Darfur: On understanding and ending the horror"
- by Alex de Waal

http://bostonreview.net/BR29.5/dewaal.html
by RWF (restes60 [at] earthlink.net)
. . . Rabbi Teuf can remain silent about Iraq

why is that?
by JA
I couldn't find Rabbi Teuf's name in the articles (I'll yahoo/google "Teuf": maybe you posted the wrong URL?), but I did find this interesting paragraph:

"With the Russian frontier of ruthless neoliberalism now closed, it was necessary to find a new opportunity for exploitation: Iraq and, by extension, the entire Middle East. But Iraq serves another purpose as well. Just as Yeltsin and his entourage used Chechnya to loot the Russian economy, the neoconservatives are using Iraq to win a much greater prize: the looting of the US economy, a story that to this day goes woefully underreported as a series of piecemeal, seemingly unrelated scandals. The ambitions of the neoconservatives are global, including the US, and Yeltsin should be remembered as one of the architects of their grandiose strategy."

Yes, of course, the Bush administration and his capitalist cronies doesn't just want to loot Iraq!
by yo Jew-hater
It's not just "white-American liberals" or Jewish people in this country who are appalled by, or profess to be appalled by, the slaughters going on in Darfur. I won't even waste my time creating a list of people who don't fit those profiles for you.

Take off your Jew-colored glasses for a second, take a deep breath, and step back from your reactionary positions. What's going on in Darfur is fucked up, independent of who's saying it, be they Jewish, "white", or whatever.

Now, go ahead and incorrectly call me a Jew or whatever your worst taunt is. Ignore that innocent people in Darfur are being raped and killed because you can't see beyond your hate of Israel.
by people are being used but...
The liberal white elite in the US is being used when it comes to Darfur but it doesnt have much to do with Israel.

One reason Darfur is a focus is thats it is safe and seems PC at first sight. If you are a celebrity why not focus on Darfur since there doesnt seem to be a huge down side. Its a bit like focusing on Tibet in the US but being able to do it internationally since Sudan has a lot less power than China. Plus there is the white attack on black thing which make liberal whites feel good about themselves and the NGO aid thing (since its such a poor country) which lets you hob nob with people like Bono and go on safari like vacations to see the poor people you think your helping.

Another reason Darfur is being focused on is that since there doesnt seem to be anyone defending the government of Sudan it can be used to sell war to liberals as was done in Bosnia and Kosovo. With the loss in Iraq Sudan can be sold by NeoCons as a reason for the US to have a strong military. Even the private army people are getting in on the game, hoping that governments wont send troops but liberals will be willing to fund private sector soldiers to go in and "save" people.

And of course Darfur is being falsely sold as something bad "Arabs" are doing so hyping the suffering there allows racists to either use it to justify Israel or US actions in Iraq.

None of these things that are behind why Darfur is so hip right now have much to do with what is actually going on in Darfur.

Is it genocide? It seems like people are selling it as a fight between unarmed black Africans and evil Nomadic nonblack Arabs, but this is just flat out false. In Darfur some of those carrying out massacres are now identifying as Arabs and identifying those they are killing as nonArabs but the ethnic groups involved look the same and the idenities are more a result of the US war on terror than anything else (both the US and the government of Sudan having an interest in propating the myth due to racist views on Arabs in the US and a view that the US is attacking Arabs among many in the region).

How bad is the killing? The number killed in the past few years is high but is it really higher than in other areas currently at war. The number killed daily is definitely lower than in Iraq and is probably on par with parts of Afghanistan and maybe Somalia. Rwanda had as many people killed in a week as have died in the past 5 years in Darfur and wars a few years ago in the DRC also killed far more .

Is the war one sided? Not as much as one would think. There are actually rebel armies in Darfur fighting against the government and the Janjaweed and one such group is the group that was tied to Bin Laden when he lived in Sudan. The fighting is fairly one sided but if you listen to NPR debates on Darfur one could see things turning in the opposite direction and the demonization of the Janjaweed being used to justify massacres of civlian members of the Baggara ethnic group.


War crimes are going on in Darfur and it is not all bad there is focus on it, but its mainly because it seems safe as a pet cause for celebrities and doesnt require the political risk one would run into for bringing up Somalia, Sri Lanka, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, or other places where change could come about just by having major powers stop the killing (the US can pull out of Iraq but solving Darur would require getting more involved). I think there is also a unconcious view that things wont get resolved in Darfur so like Tibet its a cause one can cling to and form NGOs around and not have to worry about a sudden cutoff in funding if the conflict were to actually get resolved.
But we sure as hell don't need to hear *HYPOCRITICAL ZIONISTS* saying it -- for their own manipulative purposes.

Yo, "by yo Jew-hater" (Thursday May 3rd, 2007 5:51 PM)!: do *YOU* support sanctions, boycotts and divestment against Israel too? *Hmm...???*
just by having the U.S. (our tax billions each and every year) to stop funding it.
The occupation if Palestine is a major racist attrocity but for those in the US it is a bit indirect compared to the other attrocities the US is more directly enagaged in.

Darfur is a country that the US has little influence over that is carrying out an attrocity. No amount of protests in the US will change whats happening over there since IUS involvement would likely make things worse (and it can get worse) and the liberal NGO stuff hasnt made a huge difference.

The Palestinians are being oppressed by Israel with probably more a racist attitude from the oppressors than in Darfur but with a lot less actual killing. Israel gets money from the US. Protests in the US could change funding which then would cause turmoil in Israel and eventually could force change. Israel inst completely dependent on the US economically and actually makes some military equipment itself so reducing US military funding would mainly result in less killing indirectly due to the economic consequences of Israel actually having to pay for more of their weapons themselves.

Somalia is also a US proxy war but its an actual war with dozens of civlians killed daily by shootings and probably hundreds if not thousands due to disease resulting from the conflict. Ethipia gets US backing like Isreal but the US has also engaged in bombing of Somlia itself in the past few months. Protests in the US resulting in a shirt in US policy might not stop things at once (since Ethiopia has its own interests) but it could result in many more saved lives quicker than protests over Darfur or Israel.

Iraq is a US war. The US kills hundreds of people a day and if the US pulled troops out not only would US killings reduce but the civil war in the country could also come to an end since Sunni insugent groups attacking Shias get some of their support due to opposition to US occupation. Most of the US public wants the war to end and one doesnt have to educate the public as much about the war since its been in the US longer. Many people who protest Israel and Darfur also protest Iraq but there are strangely fewer groups as focused on Iraq as on Israel and Darfur (there are quite a few groups focused on "the war" but the amount of focus on the Iraqi people's oppression is strangely lacking by activist liberals, on college campuses and on radio talk shows (when compared to Darfur or even the Palestinians).
we would know what the KKK was really up to.

(Btw, this is just a hypothetical example.)
Both sides are dark skinned, both sides are Muslim and the more fundamentalist Muslim militia in the country, the Justice and Equality Movement, headed by Hassan al-Turabi (who was close to Bin Laden) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Turabi ) supports the Darfuri refugees and is fighting the government of Sudan.

Sudan is very complicated and I really doubt any side in the conflict is friendly towards Israel (except maybe the Christian groups in the South who dont seem to care much about Darfur either way right now)
by Darfur
"There are various estimates as to how many deaths have occurred. However they all concur that the range is within the hundreds of thousands. The UN estimates that the conflict has left as many as 450,000 dead from violence and disease.[3] Most NGOs (non-governmental organizations) use 200,000 to over 400,000, a figure from the Coalition for International Justice that has since been cited by the United Nations. Sudan's government claims that 9,000 people have been killed, however this figure is seen as counterfactual.[4] [5] As many as 2.5 million are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict

So thats between 200,000-500,000 dead total over 3 years.

In 2003-4 alone "About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death toll from Iraqi and US public health experts."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
By 2006 the number of dead was 600,000+
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/

So using the 500,000 number for Darfur we get almost the same number of deaths in Iraq and Darfur at about the same rate (but the Darfur number includes nonviolent deaths while the Iraq number from Lancet didnt count the increased death rate due to disease).

Iraq is larger than Darfur but the deaths in Iraq between 2003 and 2006 were mostly concentrated in the central Sunni section of the country.

Sone other parts of the world have had worse death rates in recent years:

"The Second Congo War was a conflict that took place largely in the territory of Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). The war began in 1998 and officially ended in 2003 when a Transitional Government took power. The widest interstate war in modern African history, it directly involved eight African nations, as well as about 25 armed groups, and earned the epithet of "Africa's World War" and the "Great War of Africa." An estimated 3.8 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease brought about by one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War

When people go on and on about genocide in Darfur I wonder where they were 3 years ago and if they even knew about the war in the Congo that killed millions. While people rightly talk about remembering Rwanda and not wanting that to happen again, the genocide and killing in the region didnt really stop and the war in the DRC was directly related to what happened in Rwanda... but nobody seemed to care about it.

So .... why Darfur?

I think a normal answer on the Left is a conspiratorial one about oil or hatred for Muslims but the unfortunately more likely one is that hip caring about world conflicts isnt rational and the Save Darfur movement draws on support more similar to the Save Ethiopia movement of the 1980s (that largely ignored the war at the time that caused the famine) than to other antiwar movements. Making Poverty History and Saving Darfur are somewhat hollow slogans that wont result in any aid to those it claims to be about and does much more to exploit the poverished and oppressed than it really does to help them. Part of this is because simplified views of the world with "good guys" and evil "bad guys" never lines up with reality but its also due to the dynamic of large corporate like NGOs where the marketing department has to come up with the next cause with commerical tie-ins (like the Red Campaign selling IPods and GAP clothes) to mainly raise money for the NGO's activities; hands across America and giant aid concerts are more for those participating than for the causes they claim to be about.

Of course Darfur isnt completely random its an actual war with thousands daying but if you thinks from an advertising perspective:
-A Darfur campaign wont alienate any group that donates money to NGOs
-Christian Conservatives already care about the South of Sudan due to the conflict there in the 80s and 90s and many will rally around Darfur since they wont realize there isnt much relation (although the Sudan goevrnment playing the role of the bad guys does help)
-The US is unlikely to engage in a large war in the Sudan so calling for the US to intervene wont result in a backlash (since a US military intervention would make things worse). Its much safer to ask for something that wont happen than one that might because then you have to take resposibility for the disaster you helped cause.
-The images from Darfur are sad but not bloody. Unliike Iraq and Afghanistan where one has beheadings, bodies run over by tanks etc.. Darfur pictures look much more like Ethiopia in the 80s (something NGO marketing depts have a lot of experience with) and sending middle-class Americans glossy ads with photos of refugee camps and starving Darfuris works much better than pics of people killed by car bombs.
-Rwanda makes Clinton era liberals feel guilts so Darfur can be sold as not allowing the same thing to happen again (even though Rwanda was pretty different and resulted in many more deaths in a few weeks than have happened during the past few years in Darfur)
by i smell a rat too
except: "Sudan is very complicated and I really doubt any side in the conflict is friendly towards Israel"

Let me make this clearer. If the KKK (here, the Zionists & Israel lobby) were sponsoring rallies against black Senegalese (here, the "Arabs") oppressing Arab nomads (here, "the black Africans"), we would know what the KKK (here, the Zionists & Israel lobby) was really up to.

The Zionists are hypocritically exploiting the tragedy in Sudan for their own diversionary PR purposes and "Arab" vilification (as though Sudanese "Arabs" would have any more connection to Palestinians than do Irish Europeans to Italian Europeans). This is because at last, after over half a century, Israel is increasingly being much more widely recognized for the brutally oppressive racist state (with its wantonly indiscriminate blitzkrieg bombing tactics in Lebanon) that it is. This is in spite of Israel's and the Israel lobby's own Goebbels-like propaganda machine (in Israel & the U.S.) against its own despised and unwanted Semitic population (the Palestinians).

Otherwise, I agree with you.
"The Palestinians are being oppressed by Israel with probably more a racist attitude from the oppressors than in Darfur but with a lot less actual killing. Israel gets money from the US. Protests in the US could change funding which then would cause turmoil in Israel and eventually could force change. Israel inst completely dependent on the US economically and actually makes some military equipment itself so reducing US military funding would mainly result in less killing indirectly due to the economic consequences of Israel actually having to pay for more of their weapons themselves."


The Palestinian crisis represents the longest ongoing human rights catastrophe in the 20th & 21st century invovling millions more oppressed and displaced people over the past 65+ years, refugees and exiles. In addition, Isreal has killed some 20,000+ mostly civilians in Lebanon alone.

The U.S. has sent naval task forces to the region numerous times in behalf of Israel (and Israel attacked one of those ships in 1967). Israel has exposed us, as Americans, to danger far more often for far longer than U.S. involvement in any other country. At the time of Palestine's partition and Israel's founding, British and American foreign policy heads *WARNED* that if Britain or the U.S. supported such a settler-colonial state as Israel, that we would create problems for ourselves (which the U.S. took on from the British) "for the next 50 years" -- they underestimated. Since apartheid has fallen in South Africa, Israel is the *ONLY* state of its kind left in the entire world -- where a European/European-identified settler-colonial people has been brutally oppressing millions of other native people in their own homeland in the non-European world.

Israel absolutely *FLOATS* on a sea of American money -- not only BILLIONS in DIRECT AID, but billions in LOAN GUARANTEES & FORGIVENESS, and billions in INDIRECT AID, billions in TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, aside from the billions that Israel has cost us in MAJOR U.S. MILITARY SUPPORT OPERATIONS. In addition, Israel still sends its rich Uncle (Sam) THE BILL for almost everything else, like funding HOUSING PROJECTS (everything from housing divisions, to small towns, to small cities for importing more Jews from Brooklyn to Russia to even Peru!) in the Occupied Territories; Israel sends us INVASION BILLS everytime it invades another country (it has pretexturally invaded ALL its neighbors -- except once in 1973, when Egypt tried to get back land stolen by Israel in 1967); Israel even sends us NONINVASION BILLS when it *doesn't* go to war (like in the first Iraq war, i.e., "Gulf War", that the U.S. baited Iraq into). I'm telling ya, Israel is BEYOND CHUTZPAH!

The U.S. supporting a European Jewish-founded Zionist state in the middle of the Middle East is one of those history-altering decisions -- like overthrowing the democratic government in Iran and installing a dictator, the Shah; dividing, installing and supporting a dictator in South Korea, which led to a grinding war with North Korea and the Chinese military; supporting the French re-colonization of Vietnam after WWII and then taking the war over ourselves, using the Gulf of Tonkin lie as a pretext; starting/baiting a war with the Soviets in Afghanistan (where the U.S. was *happy* to support and arm Islamic fundamentalism, which gave the Soviets its Vietnam, but then gave us 9-11 and a still on-going war in Afghanistan); going in to colonize, plunder and privitize Iraq at the point of a gun, using the WMD lie as a pretext, in a war that will be a cross between our 'Soviet Afghanistan', 'Algeria', and 'Vietnam lite' (also, in major part, a Jewish neocon and Israel's proxy war using the U.S. again for the sake of Israel's hegemony in the Middle East). And, as always, its we ordinary people who pay the physical and economic costs (including what we end up going without, for our govt to pay for such military misadventures).

In the process American society will have turned into *ISRAEL* -- turning into a militarist state, yet now scared of every sudden noise, with now the U.S. directly persecuting its own growing Arab & Muslim population). The U.S. involvement in ISRAEL, AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ have brought the West "suicide bombers" and the constant fear of "terrorism".

The Middle East wars (whether instigated by Israel or the U.S.) have created a *new* kind of danger to the people -- certainly not the "leaders" -- in Western Europe and the U.S.: the fearlessness of people who have known nothing but our wars DIRECTLY THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. We have created a new kind of weapon: THE FEARLESSNESS OF WAR-TORN PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD *ENOUGH* AND WHO WOULD *WILLINGLY* GIVE THEIR VERY LIVES.


"there are strangely fewer groups as focused on Iraq as on Israel"

At this time there are *FAR* more American groups protesting the war in Iraq (of course moreso because of *American* casualties: thousands dead and several tens of thousands of virtually invisible maimed/wounded) -- though relatively little suffering, though we'll just keep bleeding a little dead and wounded every day for year after year after year until we finally decide we've had enough, compared to the exponentially more Iraqi deaths & other casualties -- than are protesting Israel's 65+ YEARS oppression of the Palestinian people.


BUT, AS AN ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-COLONIALIST, ANTI-IMPERIALIST PERSON OF COLOR, I ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN *&* LEBANESE *&* IRAQI *ARMED* RESISTANCE AGAINST ISRAEL AND THE U.S.!

ISRAEL DOESN'T DESERVE SECURITY -- BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN AND IS MASS OPPRESSING OTHERS.

I'M *SERIOUS* ABOUT LIBERATION -- BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
My point was people protest the war without actually focusing in on Iraqis. A lot of the focus in the US is to bring the US troops home so the US troops dont die. Palestine has more of a human interest focus with less focus on individual attrocities and more on human suffering told through individual stories. Thats partly because the NGOs focused on Palestine have been around longer and have more access to interviews with Palestinians. Darfur is strangely all human interest with coverage almost always being in teh abstract rather than about specific attrocities.

In terms of the Israel-Palestinian confoict being central to a lot of things I would say thats only been true since 9/11 and only if you assume that Bush's war on terror is driven from the outside rather than by US interests. The US will never "win hearts and minds" in the Muslims world as longs as the US keeps supporting Israel and Israel keeps oppressing Palestinians, but I personally dont think US policy is that driven by the hearts and minds of peopel in the Muslims world and think geopolitical, ideological and economic interests play a much larger role in Bush's wars.

In terms of human suffering and the amount of time that the coflict is going on there are a lot of places comparible to what is happening to Palestinians. One has the Chechens who have faces occupation and ethnic cleansing since 1800. Indigenous groups in the Americas who have faced various forms of oppression since the 1500s. Tibet which has faced occupation and oppression since the 1950s. Xinjiang which has faced racist occupation and opression since the late 1700s etc...
Chechnya and Xinjiang like Palestine have resistance movements and recent crackdowns in both places by the government have been justfiied by Bush's war on terror (and interestingly Chechnya's rebel leader until a few years ago was a Jordanian probably of Palestinian background).
Chechnya has had more people killed by Russian troops a year than have been killed in Palestine.

It makes more sense to protest Israel in teh US than occupations by governments where we can have little impact. Protesting Tibet or Chechnya here is more about feeling good and showing support than really helping since nothing we can do here will likely improve things there.

Israel is different since US support helps keep the occupatioin going but I do have some serious questions about how people focus on it. Israel is largely protected in its actions by the taboo surrounding criticism of Israel. That taboo is probably made worse by overly obessive people who bring up Israel all of the time in other contexts and use worlds like Zionist that comes off to bystanders as conspiratorial. If Palestine and Israel coudl be discussed ina less heated format its is likely that US policy could be changed but as long as those opposing Palestine sound a bit crazed it is easy for most of the public to choose to opt out of the argument (since they want to avoid all of the hatred on both sides) and that ultimately helps keeps the occupation going. Focusing on a conflict or focusing on it heatedly is very different from helping those suffering. Yellings about Palestine doesnt help Palestinians. Sounding really militant and talking about how much you support resistance doesnt equal actually supporting the resistance and if its hurts the ability for people to organize around Palestine, actually hurts Palestinians (just as Darfur rallies and Tibet rallies dont clearly do anything to help those in Darfur or Tibet).

when they are so brazen as to market their cause with references to RWANDA and BOSNIA, while hundreds of thousands have died in Iraq as a consequence of US military intervention, and they act as if it never happened???

it is this sort of hypocrisy which makes it difficult to take them seriously

and, of course, JA has already addressed the fact that many of the groups who care about the brutalities inflicted upon people in Darfur have no problem with the perpetual occupation of Palestine and an emerging system of segregation that recalls the early stages of apartheid in South Africa


--Richard Estes





by argh
What makes you so sure that they didn't say anything about Iraq? What makes you so sure that they aren't against that occupation? Why does the honesty of these peoples convictions have to be based upon their religion? Have any of you ever met Rabbi Reuven Taff?
by anti war
Stop the U.S. and Zionist War Against Sudan - David Rolde
http://www.green-rainbow.org/Newsletters/election06/articles/sudan.html

Sara Flounders "The U.S. role in Darfur, Sudan"
http://www.iacenter.org/Africa/dafur-sf06032006.htm

Boston area Zionists organizing for war against Sudan - David Rolde http://bridgenews.org/news/052006/sudan

George W. Bush, executive order ""... due to the threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the pervasive role played by the Government of Sudan in the petroleum and petrochemical industries in Sudan, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 1997. Accordingly, I hereby order:",
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061013-14.html

Project for the New American Century (PNAC)'s statement from 2004: whoever wins the election, Bush or Kerry, will eventually lead a coalition of the willing into Sudan.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/darfur-20040922.htm

Why Sudan rejects UN troops - by Sara Flounders
http://www.workers.org/2006/world/sudan-0914/index.html

United States Terrorism in the Sudan - by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Has very good background info about US intervention in Sudan in the 90s
http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq16.html

Imperial designs behind the struggle in Darfur Sudan - WMassIAC http://bazabaza.blogspot.com/2006/09/defend-sudan-links.html

Hear forum audio at Traprock Peace: Darfur: an open discussion on intervention, regime change & the politics of genocide; this was a good forum on Sudan at Smith College, July 2006.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/darfur_intervention_070606.html

See this article summarizing the forum.
http://www.workers.org/2006/world/darfur-0720/index.html

Sudan: Save Dafur? - by Keith Harmon Snow
http://www.allthingspass.com/journalism.php?catid=24

Assessments of Allegations - at ESPAC (the European Sudanese Public Affairs Council)
http://www.espac.org/darfur/

What Concerned Citizens Should Know about the Crisis in Darfur - by El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan of The Peace and Justice Foundation, A Muslim American anti-war organization
http://www.peacethrujustice.org/home.htm

Target Sudan: What's Really Behind the Crisis in Dafur? and lots more at this site
http://www.peacethrujustice.org/sudan.htm

Green-Rainbow Party Statement on U.S. Imperialism and Sudan, November 2004
http://www.green-rainbow.org/Statements/sudan.html

Darfur, imperialist intervention and anti-Arab hysteria - by Eugene Puryear
(for more at this site, search for Sudan or Darfur)
http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=628

US imperialists increase efforts to recolonize Sudan - by Natividad Carrera
(quotes George Bush as saying The pervasive role played by the government of Sudan in Sudan's petroleum and petrochemical industries threatens U.S. national security and foreign policy interests)
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=9xv3titsf2.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=5949&news_iv_ctrl=1782

US/UN Hands off Sudan! All Foreign Troops Out of Somalia! http://www.mawovancouver.org/sudansomalia.htm

Hands off Sudan! Forum Video:
http://www.pasifikost.ca/?q=node/81

" the current anti-intervention movement that is sweeping Sudan, as the best example for what peace-loving people around the world should support: self-determination for Sudan! http://www.mawovancouver.org/070203-05report.html

" Natasha took on the so-called "Save Darfur" campaign, which is calling for UN military intervention into Africa. She challenged that today's calls for troops to Africa, are merely a reiteration of the same colonial policies that have plundered and murdered African nations for decades."
http://www.mawovancouver.org/070216report.html

Canada/US/UN/EU/NATO Hands Off Sudan! No to Invasion of Sudan! - MAWO http://www.mawovancouver.org/articles/statements/061129sudan.html

The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency - by Mahmood Mamdani
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/mamd01_.html

U.S. steps up Sudan intervention, sends 'observers' to border: By Natividad Carrera http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=1782&page=NewsArticle&id=6429

Video: Darfur, Sudan: Seeking The Truth - with Louis Farrakhan
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7388395984333813644&sourceid=zeitgeist

Myths About the Arab Slave Trade - by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah
http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/arabslavetrade.htm#MYTHS

Darfur Truth Report - at Africanholocaust.net
"Who is behind the campaign and what actions are they calling for?
Even a cursory look at the supporters of the campaign shows the prominent role of right-wing evangelical Christians and major Zionist groups to “Save Darfur.”
http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/darfur%20report.html

The Executive Committee of SAVE DARFUR: scroll down the page to see list

An Interview with Sudanese Compatriot Ismail Kamal - at IndyMedia, May, 2006 http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/839852.shtml
In Harlem, a discussion on the Sudan
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/printer_1636.shtml

Just Saying No to Imperialist Intervention in Sudan- Gary Leuppo
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May06/Leupp01.htm

No imperialist intervention in Sudan! " The “fig leaf” of the UN is in reality a blood soaked whip. Several murderous campaigns – from Korea to Haiti – have been carried out under what revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara called “the discredited flag of the United Nations.” http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=65858

Hands Off Sudan! "We must realize the implications of urging the President to commit the United States to intervene in an ongoing civil war in a foreign land thousands of miles away." - Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul195.html

the Al Shifa plant, known as the "pride of Africa," supplied the most basic medical and veterinary needs for Sudan and other African countries and was not a weapons factory. http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/sudan.htm

Sudan's president against Israel: "This is a camouflage for what is happening in Iraq, in Palestine, in Afghanistan." http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1162378504117

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html#top

A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005345.html

Sudan-Numeri-Sharon-Saudi-Iran Contra-butions:

In May 1982, a clandestine gathering brought Mr. Schwimmer, Mr. Nimrodi, Foreign Ministry Director-General David Kimche (late of the Mossad), Mr. Sharon (who had replaced Mr. Weizman as defense minister) and his wife Lily, together with Sudanese President Gaafar Numeiri at a Kenyan safari resort owned by Mr. Khashoggi.

Mr. Schwimmer said the Israelis won Numeiri's agreement to allow Ethiopian Jews safe passage through Sudan on their way to the Jewish state. In return, he said, Israel would later spirit Numeiri out of the country when his regime was toppled. "Otherwise his opponents would have killed him."

Mr. Melman said that for Mr. Khashoggi, and for Mr. Sharon and Mr. Kimche as well, much more was at stake. "They proposed to Numeiri that the Sudan become a gigantic arms cache for weapons either produced or captured by Israel. Saudi Arabia was to finance the project, aimed largely at selling weapons to exiled Iranian generals for a major coup attempt.

In the end, the Mossad foiled the plan, going behind Mr. Sharon's back to persuade the late shah's son, then in Morocco, to veto it.

Three years later, Mr. Schwimmer, now an adviser to then-Prime Minister Peres, became a principal player in the Iran-contra affair, an undercover operation disclosed in 1986, in which money from covert U.S. arms sales to Iran was to be used to finance anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua. Subsequent joint House-Senate hearings focused for a time on the role of Mr. Schwimmer.

In a 1987 hearing, ex-U.S. Air Force Gen. Richard Secord, one of many Iran-contra go-betweens, testified that Mr. Schwimmer paid $1 million in November 1995 to finance shipment of five loads of HAWK anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Gen. Secord said that only one shipment was made, at a cost of about $200,000, and that Mr. Schwimmer never asked for the balance to be refunded.

Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a former National Security Council aide, then decided to spend the money to aid the financially-strapped contras, Gen. Secord continued, quipping, to the panel's surprise, "So Mr. Schwimmer made a 'Contra-bution.'"
http://www.jewoftheday.com/categories/zionism/Schwimmer%20Al.htm

Darfur, the new American-French Protectorate
http://www.freearabvoice.org/articles/DarfurTheNewAmericanFrenchProtectorate.htm

U.S. Air Force Team Deploys to Prepare for Sudan Airlift Mission
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=25019

U.S. air strikes in Somalia 'kill many'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6243459.stm

USAF delivers 350 African Union troops to Darfur Sudan
http://www.eucom.mil/english/FullStory.asp?art=724

Darfur: About the Israeli Presence
http://www.sudanvisiondaily.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7407

Sudanese soldiers had been battling more than 5,000 "Eritrean invaders led by white foreigners, including some Israelis "
http://web.peacelink.it/africa/scio/month_12.html

Malcolm X on Zionism: Zionist Logic and Africa
http://bazabaza.blogspot.com/2007/02/malcolm-x.html

President Bush Meets with "Save Darfur" Advocates
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060428-5.html

Israel's hand in Sudan's past and future
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=184

The Zionist plan for the Middle East
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=24396&s2=06

Without the waters of the Nile River, Egypt would cease to exist – quickly
http://francona.blogspot.com/2005/03/east-and-west-oil-and-water.html

US Jews leading Darfur rally planning
http://ww4report.com/node/2582

The Importance of Darfur to the Jewish Community - by Joachim Martillo
http://www.rule19.org/resources/sudan-joachim.htm

The Coming U.S. War on Sudan
http://www.blacksandjews.com/War.on.Sudan.html

Israel's hand in Sudan's past and future
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=119467

Zionism and Slavery in Sudan
http://www.psreview.org/content/view/43/99/

Jews Try "Anti-Slavery"
http://www.blacksandjews.com/Current_Events.html
"UN troops would get large resistance"
http://66.218.71.231/language/translation/translatedPage.php?lp=de_en&text=http%3a%2f%2fhttp://www.uni-kassel.de%2ffb5%2ffrieden%2fregionen%2fSudan%2fWelcome.html

Sudan needs help, not sanctions - A report from Darfur Sudan, By Dora Muhammad http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1581.shtml

UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism - by Steve Lendman
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-peacekeeping-paramilitarism.html
US State Intervention Will Not Solve Sudan's Problems
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=6885

Sudan, Oil, and the Darfur Crisis. Are the U.S. and Britain seeking a pretext for intervention in order to take advantage of Sudan's oil? by Enver Masud http://www.twf.org/News/Y2004/0807-Darfur.html
(Many good links)

Zionism and Slavery in Sudan
http://www.psreview.org/cntent/view/43/99/

Zionists lie about Sudan at Rally for war against Sudan
http://boston.indymedia.org

Darfur: damned by pity. There is no civil war so bad that it cannot be made worse by the intervention of Western liberals.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1687

"kNOw Genocide" - Stop the zionist attacks on Sudan http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/63290/index.php

Jewish groups find going tough as they work to attack Sudan
http://www.peacethrujustice.org/jewishLobbySudan.htm

Blair stuns defence chiefs with Sudan troops invasion plan
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1488692006

The liberal position is hardly distinguishable from the Bush administration's position on Darfur, and the Clinton administration's position on Kosovo.
http://www.counterpunch.org/estabrook09232006.html

THE U.S./ZIONIST PROPAGANDA WAR, ITS LEADERS AND ITS VICTIMS
http://www.freearabvoice.org/articles/TheTruthWillSetYouFree.htm

Stop the War Against Sudan
http://bridgenews.org/documents/roldesudan/view

"genocide," was a conversion "dictated by domestic considerations." http://blog.zmag.org/ee_links/sudan2

Sudan rejects 'colonial' troops, BBC, June 20 at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5097868.stm

Khartoum accuses UN of giving cover to rebel leader,
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=12729

"Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Establishment Jews
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/furuhashi280406.html

Sudan's Bashir rules out UN force in Darfur,
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=16438

"Jihad, Jihad, Jihad" hand-in-hand with the Zionist State in destabilizing Sudan's Muslim government.
http://www.coastalpost.com/98/10/6.htm

U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has blocked a UN envoy from briefing the Security Council on Darfur,
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=19227

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about the urgent need for action in Darfur.
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/index.php?content=details.php?content=2006-02-28&menupage=Sudan
Video of Bush calling for Acts of War:
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details.php?content=2007-04-18&menupage=Sudan

AU & the New Imperialism, Daily Observer (Banjul), June 27
http://allafrica.com/stories/200606270610.html

Why Is West Showing So Much Interest in Darfur Sudan? Continued foreign intervention threatens Sudan’s unity and stability and the future of its people who should be allowed to live as an ethnically and culturally diverse nation. Foreign powers must take their hands off Sudan. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=64806&d=3&m=6&y=2005&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion

Darfur: The scramble for Africa's oil: However, as in other African countries, it turns out that the discovery of oil was not a blessing but a curse, a curse because it has attracted the attention of various imperialist powers seeking to amass all oil resources under their exclusive control and to retain the lion's share of the profits for themselves rather than dissipate them on development for the benefit of local people."
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=17

US opens new war front in North Africa"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF14Aa01.html

"While World Capitalists Spend Trillions of Dollars on their Wanton Wars, Hunger Kills 18,000 Children Each Day" by Hassan El-Najjar can be found at
http://www.doublestandards.org/el-najjar1.html

"From Yugoslavia to Iraq to Sudan"
http://www.workers.org/2007/editorials/yugoslavia-0405/

US Based Mercenaries in Darfur:

"Darfur Diplomacy: Enter the Contractors" by Pratap Chatterjee
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11598

"SUDAN: U.S. Contractors to Support African Forces" by Nick Simeone
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11587

Human Rights was nothing more than a propaganda slogan
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor2.htm

Protest against US Congressman James McGovern, who is an advocate of US war against Sudan and who will be giving a pro-war speech. http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/peace-announce/Week-of-Mon-20060529/001027.html

Sudan Supports Liberation:

Saving sudan from slavery is a novel idea since they were the first successful rebellion movement of the third world against western colonialism in the Rebellion of the Mahdi from 1881 to 1898

Sudan calls for Intifada volunteers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1916066.stm

Zionist rain of death on Sudan
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/05/zionist-rain-of-death-on-sudan.html

Intervention in Sudan?
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/11/intervention-in-sudan.html

Mounting evidence of US destabilisation of Sudan
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/sudn-n19.shtml

Aid workers charge political motives in US claim of “genocide” in Darfur http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/sud-o16.shtml

Sudan: why Powell calls Darfur violence “genocide” http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/sep2004/sudn-s20.shtml

Humanitarian crisis in Sudan used as cover for neo-colonial ambitions http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/dafu-j28.shtml

What are the real reasons for the US missile strikes (On Sudan)? http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/bomb-a26.shtml

In light of yesterday's bombing attacks on the Sudan: The press and US militarism -- a lesson from history
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/main-a21.shtml

Sudan Links
http://www.rule19.org/resources/sudan.htm

Speak Out Against The US Zionist UN, War on Sudan
http://www.rule19.org/resources/sudan-aa-070329.htm

Sudan is a country with a per capita GDP of less that $2500 per year whose people have already been hurt by US sanctions and boycotts. The US has starved Sudan with sanctions, instigated the civil wars in Sudan, armed the rebels, and then blamed the Sudanese government for all the deaths (whether by violence or famine or disease) and called it genocide.

The Anti-Sudan propaganda campaign that is primarily organized and funded by zionist groups (especially the JCRC / CJP) is incredibly offensive. They are demonizing the government and people of the largest country in Africa. The US has starved Sudan with sanctions, instigated the civil wars in Sudan, armed the rebels, and then blamed the Sudanese government for all the deaths (whether by violence or famine or disease) and called it genocide. Meanwhile the US has sponsored a war in Congo in which millions of people have died, and no one is talking about that - there are no Muslims to demonize and falsely blame in Congo. The US has definitely committed genocide in Iraq, and is supporting a genocidal colonial settler regime in Palestine. The Sudanese government opposes the US war against Iraq and the US/Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. A Sudan divestment campaign is aimed primarily at the Chinese oil company trying to stop China from obtaining oil from Sudan. The US already cut China off from Iraqi oil by invading Iraq.


What Zionists Really think about Sudan:

“israel’s moral obligation to the people of Darfur”
http://www.stateofjudea.com/?p=106

"Bring the kingdom of God to an area of Sudan where the light of Jesus rarely shines."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR2006042602182.html

Israel jails hundreds of Sudanese refugees, breaks their bones
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29542/edition_id/557/format/html/displaystory.html

"Save Darfur" spokesman:
"...the greatest Presidents of this greatest nation, Ronald Reagan. He had a vision for Sudan, we need him..."
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/003988.shtml

"Take up the White Man's burden/ The savage wars of peace/ Fill full the mouth of famine /And bid the sickness cease;/ And when your goal is nearest/ The end for others sought,/ Watch Sloth and heathen Folly/ Bring all your hope to nought." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/07/20/do2002.xml

Regarding ISRAEL and Black Americans:
"Israel and New Sudan should form an alliance against the Arab world... I see the Arab man as our rapist and white supremacist. He is our greatest enemy."
http://poetwomen.50megs.com/custom4.html

"This grave situation forces the refugees to make the terrible choice of remaining out of jail and without medical insurance or giving up their freedom just so that they can obtain medical care," "The insufferable medical condition of the few Sudanese refugees residing in Israel is a blot on the health system."
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1408


"This disturbing omission calls into question the coalition's true agenda at the rally."
http://www.counterpunch.org/youmans05082006.html

The Dangers of Misunderstanding Sudan.
http://www.zatoun.com/about_olive_trees.htm

Strategy for Conquest: The Hidden History of Zionism
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/ch12.htm

the Islamization of banking has been completed the bank of Sudan has got rid of the treasury bills and government bonds instruments on which interest rates were applied
http://www.bankofsudan.org/english/ide.htm

There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4276

"To suggest that this is some sort of a U.S.-Israel conspiracy is ludicrous and insane,"
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0604154248174033.htm

The Ethics of American Military Policy in Africa: "...seeing all the dead and wounded, he just felt used and stupid."
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Lutz00.html

Save Darfur… from Bush. Exposing the Darfur Deception
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/133608/index.php

CAMERA Never Lies
http://twains_ghost.typepad.com/my_blog/2006/01/the_camera_neve.html

Apocalypse of Coercion “That’s just like hypnotizing chickens.” Iggy Pop
http://mujca.com/apocalypse.htm

Project for the New American Century PNAC list of members
http://www.reprogrammingthedesensitised.com/PNAC_02.htm


What an Odd Bird that Elie Wiesel is!

“Although the Nobel committee extolled him as a 'messenger to mankind' it is difficult to find examples of Wiesel sending any message on behalf of those victimized by the policies of the United States, and virtually impossible when it comes to victims of Israel.”
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/67472/index.php

"We had fed the heart on fantasies. The heart's grown brutal from the fare." W. B. Yeats
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/mort/zuckerman_new_anti_sem.php3
Out of Iraq... Into Darfur?
"Darfur: I’ve sensed for awhile that some forces are using the alleged "genocide" in that region to divert attention from the ongoing slaughter in Iraq (and ongoing brutalization of the Palestinians by Israel), and to depict another targeted Arab regime as so villainous as to require what the neocons call "regime change."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May06/Leupp01.htm

I found it bizarre: what happened at that Darfur rally .
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m22975&hd=0&size=1&l=e

The Darfur crisis is following a pattern which is so well-worn now that it has almost become routine.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8922

Christian Solidarity International, according to We Hold These Truths, is "a pseudo-Christian Front for an offshore corporation which generates and disseminates largely untrue or unproved statements of Christian persecution primarily aimed at countries that are unfriendly to the state of Israel, such as Sudan.
http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/SudanSanctions.html

The Prophecy of Oded Yinon, Is the US Waging Israel's Wars?
http://www.counterpunch.org/heard04252006.html

Somali Leader Says U.S. Backs Warlords
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_re_af/somalia_us_warlords

The Break up of Arab states:

"The Arab world, together with the Arab League, was late in supporting Sudan against this aggressive onslaught at a time when the Zionist groups and their influential centres and organizations in the world worked hard to achieve their strategic aims over the years. Africa has recently become aware of the aims of this scheme, which adversely affects regional security. It adopted decisions which made the restoration of security and stability in Darfur an African responsibility. It decided that the issue of Darfur should be dealt with through African mechanisms and within an African framework.
But the influential international forces employed large pressures on Africa and took the initiative away from it. They considered themselves the only side to diagnose the ailment and prescribe the medicine."


"The organizations are managed by Zionist circles that want to penetrate into Sudan through the Darfur gate after failing to do so through Southern Sudan. Those Zionist Israeli organizations found fertile soils for their objectives in the Darfur rebels. Israel had therefore entered Darfur and provided training for rebels and supported them through armament and finance to execute its policy in the Horn of Africa."

"It appears that the latest UN Security Council resolutions have placed Darfur entirely under international tutelage, whether the Sudanese parties like it or not. Darfur is on the verge of becoming an American-French protectorate – run from behind the scenes by the hidden hands of "“Israel,"” which has opened offices for itself in the refugee camps in Chad, and whose cabinet held a special session solely to deal with a discussion of the Darfur crisis. All this is going on at a time when many people in the Arab world are just now wondering, "where is that Darfur place, anyway?"”

"People who are skeptical about zionist regional designs should read the extensive literature written by Israeli generals and political leaders. A good place to start is Oded Yinon's "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties." It sketches out a plan for breaking up "the Arab Moslem world" into small ethnic states that will be weak and therefore incapable of resisting Israel and Israeli regional dominance."

"Searching on the Darfur charade and found this on the Jewish Defamation Agency ADL terrorist organization'’s website under "“anti-Semitic" news:
"…Men and women from the Darfur area participated in these demonstrations (against UN resolution 1593). They announced that the attack against them came by incitement of America and participation of Israel, which granted weapons and financial support to men who came from outside Sudan's land to attack the Darfur area, in order to accomplish two goals: the first is to steal the abundant uranium in Darfur by America, and the second is to split up Sudan so this will be the beginning of the road towards making the Arab countries minimal for Israel's interest, whom America endeavors to make gigantic in preparation for its role in the area of the big Middle East…"

"Further east, the USA, supported by the German marines, have already planted themselves in Djibouti. Eritrea is also considered pro-American and, still further, an Israeli base on the continent. Israel is, for obvious reasons, always ready when it's a question of destabilizing an Arab country. The relationships between the USA and the regimes in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad and also Egypt are quite close. All that's missing in making the chain complete from the Atlantic to the Red Sea or Indian Ocean is Sudan."

"According to a book published by the Dayan Institute for Middle East and Africa Studies called "Israel and the Sudanese Liberation Movement", Israel adopted a strategy which they called 'pulling the limbs then cutting them off'. What this policy entailed was the building of bridges with minority groups, pulling them out of the nationalist context and then 'encouraging'
them to separate.

"Tel Aviv hoped that this strategy would inevitably weaken the Arab world, break it down and threaten its interests at the same time. In order for this strategy to work, Mossad agents opened lines of communication and connections with the Kurds in Iraq, Maronites in
Lebanon and Southerners in Sudan."

What better way to break up arab states than by turning off their water because
"Without the waters of the Nile River, Egypt would cease to exist"

So no big suprise Donald Rumsfeilds old firm ABB is contracting on a dam in Sudan.

"The Sudan commitment of the ABB is guessed/advised also by five US-American pension funds, which hold ABB shares, under pressure: They do not want to be brought with activities or violations of human rights of terror in connection. The institutional investors, under it the largest public US-American pension fund Calpers, announced, to repel their participation should ABB further in the Sudan remain active. According to ABB speaker tungsten Eberhard has the enterprise thereupon Amnesty international contacted and the advice gotten to remain in the country to be careful and the dialogue with local groups of interests search. The representatives of IRN and Eawag do not want to exclude that depending upon situation also large-scale projects can be meaningful. "one must prevent however in any case to repeat old errors and in Africa there is unfortunately more failed than successful dam projects", says Bernhard Wehrli. "important would be to clarify first together with the local concerning which for a project is meaningful. But actually it runs at present in such a way that large-scale projects are from the outset set and are realized by governments and investors nearly at any price."


Energy: Oil and uranium

"So why has Colin Powell and George Bush heightened the anti-Sudan and anti-Islam rhetoric at a time when there seems to be a marked improvement? One need only scratch the surface of Sudan to find out why Powell was sent over to Africa to "care" about her. The same BBC reported that the unrest in Sudan is entirely due to the vast oil deposits in that country's southern region and that the race to extract it is driving all of Sudan's conflicts. Correspondent Andrew Harding reported that "48 villages were burned in just one new oil concession last year."

Land:

"In the post office-colonial state the Sudan changed this relationship however fundamentally. In particular of the NIF controlled government in Khartum weakened the traditional master leaders purposefully and gave parts of their Laendereien to Arab Nomadenstaemme. The traditional competition of farmers and cattle breeders around the soil had been intensified clearly in the region in the course of the Sahel sahel-Duerre and progressing of the Sahara to the south for the 70's."

Anti zionism and Old history:

Both the lebanese resistance movement hezbolla and the Hamas islamic resistance movement are said to have found support from the Sudanese. Also zionists wont forget that during the jewish terror gangs rampages in palestine in 1948, Sudanese fighters came to the aid of the local population. The SLA is believed to have trained along with Israeli forces at otis airforce base in Massachussests USA

Hoax Humanitarianism:

"I want to make clear that behind this information war are two resource wars. The first, smaller war is the war for good pasture and farmland in drought-prone Darfur. Actors in the larger war exploit the smaller war in a scramble for competitive oil prices and related profits – by means of weapons dealing and oil extraction from the Muglad Basin which extends across Sudan, under Darfur, to join the Doba basin of Chad. "

"The actors in the information war and the oil war defer most of the cost of their war onto the farmers and animal herders of Sudan, at the same time as they silence the voices of these poor people through controlling the stories of the conflict. The Government of Sudan justified each historic incident as a response to an insurgency, or what first-world countries call terrorism. Darfur fits the pattern, with limited rebel attacks on government installations in 2003 preceding the brutal land-clearing. "

"The US is no stranger to this divide and displace strategy, having funded and armed similar land-clearing and market-protection offenses in Columbia and Nigeria for oil, in the West Bank in Palestine for water and farmland, and over the last 500 years in North America for control of coal, gold, uranium, real estate value, and farmland."


anti slavery:

"Jews Try "Anti-Slavery", A Jewish group calling itself the American Anti-Slavery Group has focussed its attention on an alleged trade in Black slaves in Africa. Better late than never, even if they are tardy by a century-and-a-half. This Massachusetts-based "organization," consisting of one Charles Jacobs, a stack of stationery, a fax machine, and the combined power of the Jewish press, call themselves "new abolitionists." While their efforts have freed not a single "slave," they still have time to perform their true function"

also see

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/14531.htm
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051117/2005111732.html
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/headlines/us_and_un_plans_for_sudan_appear_aimed_at_ensuring_its_break_up
http://www.newamericancentury.org/darfur-20040922.htm
http://www.knowgenocide.org/
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/005075.shtmhttp://www.house.gov/capuano/news/2005/prMiddleEast.shtml
Sudan’s Oil Industry Sanctioned by Bush - by Ruxandra Adam


"We called it a genocide and then we wine and dine the architects of the conflict,,,"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101752_2.html

Rev. Sharpton reportedly marched against the Iraq war in New York on Saturday, then marched in Washington on Sunday for more intervention in Sudan.
http://www.nysun.com/article/31898

anti-American rally following Thursday's US cruise missile strike on Sudan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/156393.stm

Good Zionist archive of pro war politician quoyes
http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/1990/01/darfur.html

" Could it be that our commitment to Darfur is somehow viewed with suspicion when The Jews are calling for yet another intervention against Islamic aggression? "
http://jewschool.com/?p=10451

The David Project, the "American Anti-Slavery Group” and Charles Jacobs http://semitism.net/?p=51
Ariel Sharon, the foreign minister, caused a sensation by saying that "Israel should not legitimise Nato’s aggression, led by the United States … Israel could be the next victim of the sort of action now going on in Kosovo … Imagine what would happen if one fine day the Arabs declared autonomy for the Galilee and links with the Palestinian Authority" (
http://mondediplo.com/1999/05/10isbox

"...in The Jewish Advocate, the Executive Director of the JCRC, Nancy Kaufman, was quoted as saying that she thought that it was “outrageous” that Jews should protest other Jews just before Pesach WHEN THE JCRC HAS BEEN WORKING TO STOP THE GENOCIDE IN DARFUR”. She didn’t say that she did or did not agree with the message on Israel/Palestine, but tried to use Darfur to deflect from the issue. ... To try to point to Darfur to deflect criticism on another topic is a manipulation of this crisis and calls into account the JCRC’s motives."
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/61239

Black Americans:

Janjaweed = rebel forces, Sudan conflict brings tears. Black Press delegation visits war-torn region
http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/articlelive/articles/37586/1/Sudan-conflict-brings-tears/Page1.html

CFR, Council On foriegn Relations: Giving Meaning to 'Never Again' http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=7402

IASPS, The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies “African Oil: A Priority for U. S. National Security and African Development” http://www.iasps.org/strategic/africatranscript.pdf

IASPS "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000."
A Clean Break:A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm
HRW, Human Rights Watch "Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights"
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/

Ambassador Josette Sheeran: (Now head of World Food Program)
Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs., a member of the Council for Foreign Relations for more than a decade, She represents the United States at a wide variety of high-level bilateral and multilateral meetings including serving as Alternative Governor for the World Bank; the Inter-American Development Bank; the African Development Bank; the Asian Development Bank; and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Congress also confirms her as a Member of the Board of Directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. managing director of Starpoint Solutions, a leading Wall Street technology firm, also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Empower America, one of Washington's 100 Most Powerful Women http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/51686.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Sheeran_Shiner
Former editor of the Moonie owned Washington Times. http://www.innercitypress.com/wfp110606.html

URI LUBRANI
http://www.namebase.org/main4/Uri-Lubrani.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Uri+Lubrani+sudan&btnG=Search

USAF Biblography on Sudan
http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/africa06/afr08.htm#sud

INTERVIEW WITH SUDAN'S UNDER-SECRETARY FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS

... about a meeting that took place between the residents of Darfur, the so-called the Arabs and the Non-Arabs. It so happened that the representative of the Fur tribe was a fair-skinned person, while the representative of the so-called Arabs was black. So who is who? It is all invented.
http://www.peacethrujustice.org/sudanInterview.htm

As prominent Jewish organizations, and nationally renowned Jewish "leaders" - such as the Nobel Peace Prize winning hypocrite, Elie Wiesel - assemble their compliant forces for their "Genocide in Darfur" assemblies on Sunday, let us NOT FORGET the GENOCIDE that the Israeli Government - with the slavish support of Zionist Jews, Zionist Christians, and a spineless political establishment in the United States of Amnesia - have been committing against the PALESTINIAN PEOPLE!
http://www.peacethrujustice.org/israeldarfur.htm

Regarding Sanctions, Divestment, and Military Intervention against, Sanctions have repeatedly proven to have far greater impact on the innocent populations of targeted countries. Case in point: Iraq. It is our sincere belief that an Iraq (or even Kosova) styled military intervention would be catastrophic for that entire region of Africa.(1) Nearly everyone is Muslim; (2) Everyone is black; (3) It’s all about politics; (4) This conflict is international; (5) The “genocide” label made it worse.
http://www.peacethrujustice.org/darfurposition.htm

UN troops should stay out of Sudan and all (of) Africa



… First, first of all … the solution is not us. The solution is themselves. Secondly, who provides the money? Where the money flowing? Who provides the weapons? Who provides the ideology? And is more intervention the solutions for the past interventions which led to the situation we have now? http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000574.php

Sudan Government and southern rebels sign peace pledge, Video
"...of 48 years since Sudan won independence 39 have witnessed war..." http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1639.shtml

Save Sudan: The Zionist Lobby and Coordinated Media
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/27268.php

Sudan's Bashir Says US Dominated By 'Zionists'
http://www.rense.com/political/sudan.htm

Operation Moses,
The United States' role in Operation Sheba was significant in more ways than one. First, the operation was organized, conducted, and to some extent financed by the State Department, the CIA, and the air force. The CIA carried out this humanitarian mission with precision and in the clandestine fashion in which it normally operates. The US. government clearly risked security concerns for a purely humanitarian gesture. Despite the fall of Numeiry, U.S. interests in the Sudan have not been seriously hurt; moreover, the rescue operation was a stunning success,

Operation Sheba

Bush met with Weaver and the CIA station chief in Khartoum to discuss means for carrying out the president's order to rescue the Ethiopian Jews remaining in Sudan. To avoid the possibility of disclosure, Reagan wanted the operation carried out within three to four days. Weaver took an embassy plane to check out the runway of a remote airstrip near Gedaref, midway between the camps where most of the Ethiopian Jews were living, and found that it would be acceptable for the operation.

On March 28, 1985, the operation, codenamed “Sheba,” began with Ethiopian Jews from Israel working for the Mossad identifying the Ethiopian Jews in the camps and taking them by truck to the airstrip. The airstrip itself was eight miles outside of Gedaref, just far enough so that it would be difficult to spot the planes from the town.

Planes designed to hold ninety passengers each were prepared at the American base near Frankfurt, West Germany. Planes filled with food, water, and medical supplies ( AND TONS OF WEAPONS? ) were flown from an Israeli military base near Eilat to the airstrip in Sudan. These camouflaged U.S. Hercules transports landed at twenty-minute intervals to pick up their passengers. Sudanese security officers cordoned off the area and, by 9:00 a.m., all of the Ethiopian Jews were evacuated. Instead of going to an intermediate destination, the planes flew directly to an Israeli air force base outside Eilat where the passengers were greeted by Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The organizers had prepared to airlift as many as two thousand Ethiopian Jews from the camps, but they found only 494, so three planes returned from Sudan empty.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/ejus.html

CIA-Mossad Kidnapped Ethopian Jews

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia's government demanded yesterday that Israel return thousands of abducted Ethiopian black Jews who were airlifted to Israel, and likened the operation to the slave trade. In a broadcast on Addis Ababa radio, monitored in London, Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam said

"this tragic act resembled the slave trade"

and accused Sudan of collaborating in airlifting the Falashas to Israel.
Mengistu made his appeal in messages to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India, who is current chairman of the nonaligned movement, and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, the chairman of the Organization of African Unity.
He urged the three leaders to look for ways in which the Ethiopian citizens could be returned.

"The Ethiopian government . . . calls on the international community to prevail on Israel to respond favorably to Ethiopia's demand for the orderly and immediate repatriation of the abducted citizens," the ministry statement said.

In one of its strongest attacks yet on the secret Israeli airlift, Ethiopia charged that thousands of Falashas were kidnaped with the connivance of neighboring Sudan, which it said received $1000 dollars for each person airlifted to the Jewish state.

"The entire operation conjures up the revival of the slave trade," the statement said.

Israel announced in January it had carried out a secret airlift, by way of Europe and Sudan, to transport about 10,000 Ethiopian Jews from the province of Gondar, in northern Ethiopia, to Israel "It is a serious affront to the sensibilities of world public opinion that the current drought and famine in Ethiopia should be invoked as an excuse for the Israeli-engineered, and Sudanese- assisted massive kidnaping of the Falashas," said the statement.

http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=40865&sid=d1e4271983f26e5612e5a4b39c2a262f

"From Al-Aqsa to Darfour," Sudan is Being Attacked and Divided… to Besiege Egypt

"The third piece is the cruel attack on the Sudan because of the events in Darfour. During this time, we are hearing and reading about the demand from outside Sudan to try those involved [in the events in Darfour], and about the threat of sanctions on Sudan, based on Chapter Seven of the charter of the U.N. Security Council. What is strange is that Washington is leading this act, while it refuses to implement the same law and the same criteria for itself, its citizens, or its soldiers everywhere in the world! And this is while Israel does as it wishes without any accountability, and the American officers and soldiers still do as they wish in Iraq, with no oversight!

"The [actual] aim is to attack and divide the Sudan, because it is considered the Arab heart in Africa and the African heart in the Arab nation, and in order to besiege Egypt – the base of the [Arab] nation from the south – and to tighten the noose around it, as Israel is situated northwest of it!"
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP91405

US 'hyping' Darfur genocide fears
"Concern about USAID's role as an honest broker in Darfur have been mounting for months, with diplomats as well as aid workers puzzled over its pronouncements and one European diplomat accusing it of...

'plucking figures from the air'.

Under the Bush administration, the work of USAID has become increasingly politicised. But over Sudan, in particular, two of its most senior officials have long held strong personal views. Both Natsios, a former vice-president of the Christian charity World Vision, and Winter have long been hostile to the Sudanese government."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1318643,00.html

Really, why should the rebels accept any peace deal, when Washington, given an excuse by the pro-war rally organized by an odd alliance of evangelicals and establishment Jews,1 is pushing for NATO interventions just at this moment? "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region was not strong enough and that NATO should take on a larger role there" (Reuters, "Rice Urges Expanded NATO Role in Darfur," 30 April 2006). The rebels would naturally think: "Why don't we wait till Washington sends us NATO or UN or US troops to weaken the government's hands, so we can get a better deal?"

Sudan killings in Darfur not "genocide", says UN report
A United Nations investigation into killings in Sudan's Darfur region has ruled that Khartoum did not pursue a policy of "genocide",
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f5db7b76-73e8-11d9-b705-00000e2511c8.html

The plant in Khartoum
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/SUDAN/sudan.html

Who Unmuzzled the Rifle?
Let peace prevail,
Cleanse your conscience, keep prosperity alive,
The Moura Hill now wears a green shawl,
Pick your sickles, drop your weapons, bow;
Our Sudan is happy with her faithful youth.

The rifle began to speak in Darfur only after the Libya-Chad war in the late 1980s, and the Chadian civil war that followed. Robbers have been called janjewid only after Chadian tribes immigrated to Darfur. The term janjewid, originally borrowed from Chad, consists of three syllables: jan means “man”; je means “G-3 machine gun,” very popular in Darfur; wid means “horse.” The whole word therefore means “the man who rides a horse and carries a G-3 machine gun.” The Chadian tribes that had immigrated to Darfur changed the Darfuris’ code of conduct and brought new behavior like armed robbery, plundering, and carrying heavy arms into the region. The original native Darfuri was armed simply with the old Enfield rifle, which was used to drive the wolves away from his sheep.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/ArtCulture/2004/08/article06.shtml

THINK ABOUT YOUR ACTIONS
"Slave Redemption" was a fraudulent campaign, designed to defraud people of their money. A segment on CBS’s Sixty Minutes, hosted by Dan Rather, interviewed that movement’s co-founder, Jim Jacobson, who said "it is a hoax, a staged story and a circus.” The Reverend Mario Riva, an Italian Priest who lived in Southern Sudan for decades said "most of the time slave redemption was a trick."

The Slave Redemption industry became defunct soon thereafter. The Sudan Coalition, a "bipartisan entity" as its members strive to describe it, deserves credit for prolonging the miseries of all Sudanese throughout the civil war by pressuring the Clinton Administration to pursue an irrational policy toward Sudan. In April 2001 former President Carter said “the people in Sudan want to resolve the conflict. The biggest obstacle is the U.S. government policy. Any sort of peace effort is aborted basically by policies of the United States. Instead of working for peace in Sudan, the U.S. government has basically promoted a continuation of war."

The manipulation of good hearted people who care deeply about Sudan, through the use of disinformation about Slave Redemption, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and other false allegations, is wrong and counterproductive. It was wrongheaded years ago and remains the same today.
http://www.sudanembassy.org/default.asp?page=viewstory&id=459

Oil is behind struggle in Darfur
http://www.workers.org/2006/world/darfur-0504/

While Dr. Eric Reeves has written about the Central Intelligence Agency with his recent focus on Darfur, at least, he has in the past taken the position that there is no CIA connection to Sudan or its internal affairs. In a personal communication in 2001 Dr. Eric Reeves said: "I don’t know that there’s any significant CIA role in Sudan…No, the CIA is not involved there."

However, ties to U.S. intelligence predate the current Islamic regime. From 1964 to 1984 Sudan was run by the corrupt U.S. client dictatorship of Col. Jaafar Nimeiri. Within three days of the March 4, 1984 visit by former CIA Director and then Vice-President George H.W. Bush—which came under the U.S. propaganda banner of food AID for starving millions—Nimeiri instituted a purge against Islamic society, including mass arrests, executions and torture. Draconian IMF and World Bank "reforms" led to starvation, unemployment, mass riots and state repression. As Nimeiri stood arm-in-arm with Ronald Reagan for a New York Times piece in April, the U.S. quickly sent $64 million of a $181 million aid package to Khartoum in an unsuccessful attempt to crush the insurrection which soon toppled "old friend" Nimeiri.

In September of 1983, to gain support from the increasingly important Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, President Nimeiri introduced the so-called Islamic law system of Sharia for all of the country, even the southern Christian and animist regions. Thus we can say that Christians in Sudan—and their brothers and sisters abroad—who are complaining about Sharia law and religious intolerance coming out of Khartoum today should trace their complaints about Sharia (Islamic Fundamentalist Law) back to the Central Intelligence Agency and their man Nimeiri.

In an interview with Howard French, former Africa bureau chief of the New York Times now based in Shanghai, French responded incredulously to the suggestion that the CIA was not involved in Sudan.

" Sudan has been an area of deep CIA involvement for many, many years. [To say that the CIA is not involved there] is just nonsense. Anyone who says that the CIA is not involved in Sudan, you know, is either willfully ignoring the truth…or just…stupid. It’s just not plausible. First of all [Colonel Jaafar Mohammed Al-Nimeiri], the former Sudanese President, was a CIA operative."

Is there oil in Darfur?

"In fact, a huge strategic game is taking place in central Africa for control of black gold," wrote Africa Research Bulletin. Indeed, Darfur proves a pivotal geographic prize: who ever controls Darfur not only controls Darfur’s oil but also has potential to control the oil in Chad:

"While financing the [Darfur] rebels, Beijing apparently has its attention focused on Chadian oil (200,000 barrels a day) extracted in the south of the country through a US-Malaysian consortium and conveyed to the United States via Cameroon ports and the Gulf of Guinea. A more favorably disposed government in N’Djamena [the capital of Chad] could grant oil permits and authorize an oil pipeline joining southern Chad and Sudan in order to reverse the flow of black gold. China apparently also has an interest in the sub soil of Darfur, which might harbor fossil fuels. So it seems that the war between Washington and Beijing has already begun, amid the sands of Africa."

When the conflict in Darfur spread to Chad and Central Africa Republic the Western media echoed the constant "genocide" refrain. With the above we find that the reality is a little more deeply submerged beneath the headlines. It appears that Chad is a pivotal element in the disastrous "Save Darfur!" equation. However in an international debate published by the BBC on 27 October 2007, Dr. Eric Reeves stated: "" Chad tells us nothing about Darfur."
On the contrary, the evidence suggests that Dr. Eric Reeves tells us nothing about Darfur.

If we were to distill it all down into the most simple analyses we might say this: What Exxon-Mobil and other more U.S.-based companies control in Chad, China wants; and what the Chinese National Petroleum Company and TotalFinaElf have in South Sudan, the US companies want. Darfur is right in the middle. :


http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:y3dZKDhxOS0J:acir.yale.edu/YaleLowensteinSudanReport.pdf+Friedhelm+Eronat+jewish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us&client=firefox-a


A Warning to Africa: The New U.S. Imperial Grand Strategy http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2006/266/71.shtml

The Logic of "Humanitarian Intervention" Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests

"As former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says, "The people in Sudan want to resolve the conflict. The biggest obstacle is US government policy. The US is committed to overthrowing the government in Khartoum. Any sort of peace effort is aborted, basically by policies of the United States...Instead of working for peace in Sudan, the US government has basically promoted a continuation of the war." In 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives’ “Sudan Peace Act,” provided ten million dollars in assistance to the National Democratic Alliance, described by U.S. Sudan special Stephen Morrison, the head of the Sudan project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington-DC, as essentially a Darfuri rebel front group. Further support for Carter’s claims comes from Enver Masud, who refers to a Washington Post article investigating how in 1996, the U.S. sent nearly $20 million in surplus U.S. military equipment to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda to topple the government of Sudan.[6] The U.S. under Bill Clinton even bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, claiming it was used to produce WMDs, when it was later revealed that U.S. missiles had actually been launched at the largest producer of anti-malarial medicines in Africa.

The U.S. has funded insurgencies in Sudan ever since the country moved away from the control of Western powers in the late 1970s, especially the rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement and Army [SPLM/A]. The leader of the SPLA, John Garang, allied himself with the most reactionary wing of the U.S. ruling class: the Christian right were his principal ideological associates. Republican-right leader Senator Bill Frith once entered disputed South Sudan and was photographed with Garang. The U.S. Christian right is using the alleged oppression of Christians in the predominantly-Muslim south to justify a nineteenth-century style colonial intervention.

In negotiations with the Sudanese government, Garang managed to secure Kosovo-style autonomy for areas of southern Sudan. As part of a U.S. plan for balkanization, Sudan now has been strong-armed into accepting the unusual arrangement of a vice-president from Darfur and a vice-president from Southern Sudan. Garang’s wife is now meeting with U.S. leaders, including Frist, for further independence negotiations.[7]

To keep Sudan in a perpetual state of war, the U.S. makes sure at least one rebel group is on the move while another is engaged in peace talks. The recent round of “Save Darfur” demonstrations have taken place during a time of negotiations between government and rebel groups, and are designed to further destabilize the country. Yoshie Furuhashi explains, “The timing of the [April 30] rally was perfect, designed to coincide -- and scuttle -- the Abuja peace negotiations between the rebels and Khartoum brokered by the African Union, whose deadline is midnight today. And sure enough, the rebels rejected the peace deal.”[8] The U.S. needs rebel groups to win bigger victories, if it is to reverse China’s current advantageous position in Sudan.

In order to gain support for a U.S. military intervention, including NATO intervention as suggested by President Bush, the corporate media downplays the violence of and refusal to sign peace accords among the rebel insurgency, and instead covers Sudan’s civil war as if it is a one-sided human-rights crisis, with the Sudanese government as the “bad guys.” Far-worse conflicts in Africa, such as the nightmare in the Congo where millions have been killed, are ignored in favour of Darfur. As in Kosovo, all this coverage is designed to make us Canadians think that by putting Western boots on the ground, we can avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

What CNN, the state department, and the Western religious organizations aren’t telling us is that millions of Palestinians are on the verge of starvation because of entirely preventable actions by our governments. With the full support of “the West” and the “international community,” Canada, Israel, and other countries have cancelled essential food donations and aid critical to the survival of Palestinians, because we do not like the government they have elected. (Bringing democracy to the Middle East, indeed!) So, on the one hand, we are told to use military force to intervene in an “Arab” African conflict where we have no business, and on the other, are told to ignore a human rights catastrophe in Israel in which our own governments are complicit. How do our governments get away with this?"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=STO20060513&articleId=2436


Strategic victimhood in Sudan

Darfur was never the simplistic morality tale purveyed by the news media and humanitarian organizations. The region's blacks, painted as long-suffering victims, actually were the oppressors less than two decades ago - denying Arab nomads access to grazing areas essential to their survival. Violence was initiated not by Arab militias but by the black rebels who in 2003 attacked police and military installations.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/31/opinion/edkuper.php

Tribal Leaders Reject U.N. Force in Darfur,

"The root causes of the Darfur conflict are the doing of the Jewish organizations who financed this armed rebellion," Jalaladin said. "We don't want the Security Council to be an instrument of the ugly undertakings of the United States of America."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901825.html

If so, how can you imagine that deploying thousands, or more likely tens of thousands, of foreign soldiers in Darfur, a Sudanese province bigger than Iraq, is all it would take to stop the massacre there? When we went to Darfur in March, we were as desperate as anybody about the killings — and we still are. But what we learned in Sudan makes us wary of do-gooders in body armor — and of the double-think of balkanized minds branding as disaster in Iraq what they recommend for Darfur's salvation. We ought to have serious doubts about this new mission to civilize, done up in the latest colors.

When asked if the United States and its allies are trying to impose democracy in Sudan, the defence minister said democracy was not the issue, the issue is the resources. The other thing is the interest of the Israelis and the Zionists.

"They have an interest in South Sudan. Their interest is water and South Sudan has the potential to increase the water flow in the river Nile. We have five schemes in the south which can increase the water level.

"One of the states is Jungli - it alone can generate around 4 billion cubic metres of water. That is why the Jewish state wants an independent south so that the water from the south can flow through the river Nile and into Israel and so forth," Hussain said.

He added that Sudan is aware of the Jewish conspiracy since 1955 when the first rebellion took place in the south and the group of rebels was trained in Israel under the supervision of the Mossad.

"Have they found those weapons and what have they done to Iraq now?"
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article21496

Canadian ex-Mossad agent recalls his career as a ‘combatant’
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=11689

"...fugitive financier Marc Rich helped Mossad in its activities in Yemen and the Sudan... The ex-spy chief did not spell out the details... but most Israelis are aware that Mossad had been active in those countries in the '80s...And black Jews from Ethiopia arrived in the Sudan and, from there, were secretly transported to Israel on military aircraft or naval vessels. Shavit, himself, was involved in the operations. As a cover for its agents in the Sudan, Mossad created a resort near the Red Sea."

Billioniare Marc Rich Was Spy For Israel, He used what one of his former lawyers called a "mammoth information-gathering operation" to gain entree to governments and to support his businesses."He was one of the biggest commodities traders in the world and had offices and active operations in all sorts of countries. He had friends in all sorts of places - high and low - and he certainly was in a position to provide sensitive information from a number of places,"
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2001/020501.htm

Tactical Use of Genocide in Sudan and the Five Lakes Region

In southern Sudan the war that John Garang provoked and fought killed more people than the Rwandan ‘genocide’ but more slowly. Since 1983, most of the two million confirmed casualties died from starvation. The regional population was displaced.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GER20060217&articleId=1994

darfur archive links
http://www.darfurinformation.com/

The next Zionist Plot after Darfur - North Korean Nukes
http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000261.html

This article is my basis reference to the situation in Sudan and demonstrates that 2003 was definitely not the starting point.
http://tinyurl.com/3c5x62

After reading the NIF's Opposition, this may be of particular interest.
"President Bush will meet with Minni Minawi, Sudan Liberation Movement/Army Leader, at the White House on July 25, 2006. The focus of the discussion will be on how to broaden support for the Darfur Peace Agreement, facilitate its implementation, and ensure the expeditious deployment of U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur."

Minni Minnawi -The colour of Christianity in Sudan: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/r...-0404-515h.htm

That meeting led to:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/r...0060905-11.html

Joseph says that there is a secret agreement between the Darfur rebels, American intelligence and the Israeli Mossad. According to him, there’s a plan to invade Sudan under the pretext of what’s happening in Darfur which he says will be the excuse this time instead of WMDs. He says after the invasion takes place, the United States will bring down the Khartoum government and replace it with a friendlier one. Following that, the US is supposed to start sucking oil and stealing uranium but wait there’s more. The US will also divert some of the Nile’s water to Israel using high capacity pipes! Joseph then goes to conclude that Sudan’s invasion will be the first step towards colonizing Egypt and here’s the best part. The pretext of invading Egypt will be liberating the oppressed Coptic Christians! I’m telling you people this article is amazing. You see this is exactly why Israel gave back the whole of gigantic Sinai to Egypt.
http://www.almshaheer.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11713

"Eronat is not interested in Darfur or political issues. He's interested in making money." http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1503470,00.html
Cliveden Group Sudan/Chad
http://www.apco-sd.com/html/cliveden.htm

Who Wants Peace in Darfur?
Really, why should the rebels accept any peace deal, when Washington, given an excuse by the pro-war rally organized by an odd alliance of evangelicals and establishment Jews,1 is pushing for NATO interventions just at this moment? "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that the African Union (AU) peacekeep
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