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| BUSH'S FRIGHTENING MIDDLE EAST APPOINTMENT
Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, 12/10/02
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/12/10/abrams/index_np.html
By naming Iran-contra rogue Elliot Abrams its top policy advisor on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the White House is signaling a hard
pro-Sharon line that could prove disastrous.
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What crook, rogue and hard-line reprobate from the Republicans' glory years
will President George W. Bush exhume next? It's hard to say -- he seems to
have already hired them all…
Abrams fits right into the Bush White House, and not just because he almost
went to jail for a scandal so much bigger and nastier than Whitewater it's
embarrassing even to mention them in the same breath. Like the Big Three in
the Bush Tetrarchy -- Rice, Rumsfeld and Cheney -- Abrams is a hawk,
unabashed about using American power unilaterally. Like them, his worldview
has been shaped by a black-and-white Cold War ideology in which stopping
Communist or leftist expansion by any means necessary was America's top
priority…
Just as the Cold War hawks could not distinguish between legitimate Third
World national liberation movements and The Communist Menace, so today they
can't distinguish between the real political, national and economic
grievances that help drive Muslim and Arab rage and The Islamic Menace, a
reified version of Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations." Now add to
this a hard-line, politically useful commitment to Israel's security (more
accurately, to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's vision of a secure Israel) and
a Likud-like belief -- perhaps also influenced by some ill-understood
Bernard Lewis -- that the Arabs are all talk and that a taste of the lash
will send them cowering back into their tents. Taken together, you have the
explanation not just for the Bush administration's unprecedented pro-Israel
policies, but its apparent unconcern that invading Iraq could cause
terrorism, like the 21st century's Black Death, to finally and definitively
infect the religious fanatics among the world's powerless.
Considering this mindset, and the considerable political importance Bush
attaches to the fervently right-wing Christian evangelicals who believe
that Israel must be supported at all costs in order for the rapture to take
place, the appointment of Elliot Abrams to the U.S.'s top Middle East
policy position may not seem surprising. Abrams, like the Pentagon's Paul
Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, is a hard-line Israel supporter who has cast
doubt on the value of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and warned the
U.S. not to strengthen the Palestinians at the expense of Israelis…
SEE ALSO:
DALAI LAMA TROUBLED BY ISRAEL'S TREATMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual
leader and one of the world's most recognized moral authorities, is
"particularly troubled" by the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands
of the Israelis, Scott A. Hunt notes in his new book The Future of Peace:
On the Front Lines with the World's Great Peacemakers.
At the advice of one of the highest officials in the Dalai Lama's
government, Hunt went to the Holy Land to "figure out what can be done" to
end the violence in that land. In the course of his investigation, Hunt
traveled throughout Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. He
interviewed Hanan Ashrawi, and two Israeli political leaders, Uri Avnery
and Shulamit Aloni. He also met hundreds of civilians and soldiers on both
sides. His book shows the clear blueprint to peace in that region.
The Dalai Lama abhors violence from all quarters. He has been extremely
supportive of Judaism and Jewish people throughout the world. He holds
that the Wailing Wall is one of the most sacred spots on earth. After
visiting the Holy Land, though, he could not help but notice the dire
poverty and social instability facing the Palestinian people, as opposed to
the relative comfort and wealth in Israel proper. He notes that this
inequality does not contribute to a culture of peace…
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ISRAEL SILENT ON FOOD WAREHOUSE RAZING
ASSOCIATED PRESS, 12/10/02
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Food-Destroyed.html
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) -- It was considered a routine operation,
similar to many Israeli army forays into Palestinian areas over the past
two years -- locate a building believed to be used by terrorists and
destroy it.
This three-story building in this northern Gaza town, however, had enough
flour, cooking oil and rice stored on its ground floor to feed 38,000
people for a month. The goods belonged to the U.N.-affiliated World Food
Program.
Israeli troops blew it up anyway.
Nearly two weeks after that Nov. 30 incident, the Israeli military has yet
to provide a detailed explanation, and aides to Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon say they would not comment until the military does… | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 6:21 am Post subject: Passionate Attachment to Israel |
| http://www.mediamonitors.net/jamesjdavid17.html
Passionate attachment to Israel
by James J. David
Is there any criminal act that Israel can do without being protected from criticism from the United States? If there is I haven't seen it. And I haven't seen it from the Bush Administration or from the Clinton Administration or from any administration before them. But when you consider the influence of Israel's lobby and its political action committees and the more than $41 million they've given to Congress and the White House, is it any wonder Israel is shielded from any shame?
For more than 54 years the Israelis have committed acts that no other nation would dare get away with. But even here in America, where it is not yet illegal to publicly ask the wrong questions, any public figure that does so is subjected to smears, intimidation, and the attempted destruction of his career and reputation by Jewish organizations and by the very cooperative news media.
A few examples of these criminal acts committed by Israel include the treacherous attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, killing 34 American sailors and wounding another 171. There can now be no disputing that Israel knew its identity, and that the ship was in international waters and clearly marked as a US Naval vessel. What was most treacherous though was not the perfidy of Israel but that of President Johnson ordering the recall of the sixth fleet when he found out that the attackers were not the Arabs but the Israelis. The treasonous compliance continues today as corrupt politicians refuse to take any action against Israel and continue their efforts in hushing-up the whole affair although there seems to be a strong campaign by the Liberty survivors and other brave patriotic Americans in exposing the Israelis of their criminal attack.
Another example of Israel's callous disregard for its supposed "ally" America was the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, which killed over 200 US servicemen. According to former Israeli Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky, Israeli intelligence knew of the plan by Arab terrorists to bomb the building in plenty of time to warn the innocent men, but cynically refused to say anything.
In April 1996 the Israelis attacked an U.N. refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children. A U.N. investigation determined the attack was intentional and stated that " while the possibility cannot be ruled out completely, the pattern of impacts in the Qana area makes it unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of technical and/or procedural errors." Shortly after this report the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israel for the attack and all nations with the exception of the U.S. voted in favor of the resolution. In other words, intentionally slaughtering 103 civilians was not sufficient for the United States to condemn Israel. Yet, when Hezbollah attacks Israel's illegal occupation of southern Lebanon and results in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers the U.S. is first to condemn this legal resistance.
During the past 27 months the Palestinian resistance from the brutal and illegal Israeli occupation has resulted in more than 2000 Palestinians and 670 Israelis killed. When Israelis are killed or injured by Palestinian suicide bombers the White House wastes not a second to harshly condemn these brutal acts, and it does so in an understandable manner. But when Israelis drop a one-ton bomb in the center of a Gaza City apartment complex and kills 15 innocent Palestinians including 9 small children the U.S. issues a diplomatic statement criticizing the attack only as using "excessive force." Other times when Palestinian children are slaughtered for throwing stones at tanks the United States remains silent.
These are just a few of the criminal acts committed by the Israeli government and shielded from criticism by U.S. politicians or even reported by the controlled media.
Although September 11th brought the fight on terrorism to the front burner, it seems that the United States protects Israel from any criticism here too. An Israeli instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks. (Ha'aretz, December 20, 2002.) Is it possible that Israel had foreknowledge of the attack? Could this be the answer why the 4000 Israeli employees at the World Trade Center never showed up for work that tragic September morning? If this is the case then the fact that Israel's government had prior knowledge of the pending attack and not warned the Americans makes them as guilty as our enemy. Whatever the case, our government must make a complete and thorough investigation without any threats from Jewish and Israeli interest groups.
Shielding Israel from criticism and supporting the Jewish state no matter what crimes she commits has caused the United States the loss of respect around the world. In addition, Israel has cost American taxpayers more than $120 billion in the past 40 years. Our one-sided unbalanced Middle East policy has created the hatred of millions and the primary cause of terrorism that has landed on our own soil.
Criticizing our government's dangerous policies and its submissions to the Jewish lobby doesn't make anyone less patriotic or any less of an American. George Washington said it best when he stated that "passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils...the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country."
James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.
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| ISRAEL SILENT ON FOOD WAREHOUSE RAZING
ASSOCIATED PRESS, 12/10/02
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Food-Destroyed.html
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) -- It was considered a routine operation,
similar to many Israeli army forays into Palestinian areas over the past
two years -- locate a building believed to be used by terrorists and
destroy it.
This three-story building in this northern Gaza town, however, had enough
flour, cooking oil and rice stored on its ground floor to feed 38,000
people for a month. The goods belonged to the U.N.-affiliated World Food
Program.
Israeli troops blew it up anyway.
Nearly two weeks after that Nov. 30 incident, the Israeli military has yet
to provide a detailed explanation, and aides to Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon say they would not comment until the military does…[/quote]
At some point, the Arabs are going to destroy the the State of Israel
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