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Learning from the September 11 Attacks
By Mark Weber - September 15, 2001
Find this article at:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n4p-8_Weber.html
Published in The Journal of Historical Review, July-August 2001 (Vol.
20, No.
4), pages 8-9. (This essay has been circulated worldwide, in English,
German
and Arabic, in print and on numerous websites.)
With thousands of victims and riveting images of death and destruction,
war
has come home to America with terrible, devastating suddenness.
Together with
our fellow citizens, we mourn the many victims of the September 11
terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon
building. But
beyond the feelings of grief and fury must come clarity and
understanding.
President George W. Bush said on national television that "America was
targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and
opportunity
in the world." The next day he said that "freedom and democracy are
under
attack," and that the perpetrators had struck against "all
freedom-loving people
everywhere in the world."
But if "democracy" and "freedom-loving people" are the targets, why
isn't
anyone attacking Switzerland, Japan or Norway? Bush's claims are just
as untrue
as President Wilson's World War I declaration that the United States
was
fighting to "make the world safe for democracy," and President
Roosevelt's World War
II assurances that the U.S. was fighting for "freedom" and "democracy."
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, speculation has been rife
about who
the perpetrators may have been. That itself is an acknowledgment that
so many
people hate this country so intensely that one cannot easily determine
just
who may have mounted these well-organized attacks of suicidal
desperation.
These shocking attacks were predictable. In 1993 Islamic radicals set
off a
bomb at the World Trade Center that claimed six lives. In August 1998
the
United States carried out missile attacks against Afghanistan and
Sudan, strikes
that senior Clinton administration officials said signaled the start of
"a real
war against terrorism." In the wake of those attacks, a high-ranking
U.S.
intelligence official warned that "the prospect of retaliation against
Americans
is very, very high.'" (The Washington Post, Aug. 21, 1998, p. A1)
Our political leaders and the American mass media promote the
preposterous
fiction that the September 11 attacks are entirely unprovoked and
unrelated to
United States actions. They want everyone to believe that the
underlying hatred
of America by so many around the world, especially in Arab and Muslim
countries, that motivated the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks
is unrelated
to this country's policies. It is clear, however, that those who
carried out
these devastating suicide attacks against centers of American financial
and
military might were enraged by this country's decades-long support for
Israel and
its policies of aggression, murderous repression, and brutal occupation
against Arabs and Muslims, and/or American air strikes and economic
warfare against
Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and Iran.
America is the only country that claims the right to deploy troops and
war
planes in any corner of the globe in pursuit of what our political
leaders call
"vital national interests." George Washington and our country's other
founders
earnestly warned against such imperial arrogance, while far-sighted
Americans
such as Harry Elmer Barnes, Garet Garrett and Pat Buchanan voiced
similar
concerns in the 20th century.
For most Americans modern war has largely been an abstraction --
something
that happens only in far-away lands. The victims of U.S. air attack and
bombardment in Vietnam, Lebanon, Sudan, Libya, Iraq and Serbia have
seemed somehow
unreal. Few ordinary Americans pay attention, because U.S. military
actions
normally have little impact on their day-to-day lives.
Just as residents of Rome in the second century hardly noticed the
battles
fought by their troops on the outer edges of the Roman empire,
residents of
Seattle and Cleveland today barely concern themselves with the
devastation wrought
by American troops and warplanes in, for example, Iraq.
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General, has accused the United
States of
committing "a crime against humanity" against the people of Iraq "that
exceeds
all others in its magnitude, cruelty and portent." Citing United
Nations
agency reports and his own on-site investigations, Clark charged in
1996 that the
scarcity of food and medicine as a result of sanctions against Iraq
imposed by
the United States since 1990, and U.S. bombings of the country, had
caused
the deaths of more than a million people, including more than half a
million
children.
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State in President Clinton's
administration,
defended the mass killings. During a 1996 interview she was asked: "We
have
heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions
against
Iraq]. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima ... Is the
price
worth it?" Albright replied: "... We think the price is worth it." (60
Minutes,
May 12, 1996).
President Bush is now pledging a "crusade," a "war against terrorism"
and a
"sustained campaign" to "eradicate the evil of terrorism."
But such calls sound hollow given the U.S. government's own record of
support
for terrorism, for example during the Vietnam war. During the 1980s,
the U.S.
supported "terrorists" in Afghanistan -- including Osama bin Laden, now
the
"prime suspect" in the September 11 attacks -- in their struggle to
drive out
the Soviet invaders.
American presidents have warmly welcomed to the White House Menachem
Begin
and Yitzhak Shamir, two Israeli prime ministers with well-documented
records as
terrorists. President Bush himself has welcomed to Washington Israel's
current
prime minister, Ariel Sharon, whose forces have been carrying out
assassinations of Palestinian leaders and murderous "retaliatory"
strikes against
Palestinians. Even an official Israeli commission found that Sharon
bore some
responsibility for the 1982 massacres of Palestinian civilians in the
Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps.
Jewish and Zionist leaders, and their American servants, have
predictably
lost no time exploiting the September 11 attacks to further their own
interests.
Taking advantage of the current national mood of blind rage and
revenge, they
demand new U.S. military action against Israel's many enemies.
In the weeks to come, therefore, we can expect the U.S. government,
supported
by an enraged public, to lash out violently. The great danger is that
an
emotion-driven, reactive response will aggravate underlying tensions
and encourage
new acts of murderous violence.
What is needed now is not a vengeful "crusade," but coherent, reasoned
policies based on sanity and justice.
In the months and years ahead, most Americans will doubtless continue
to
accept what their political leaders and the mass media tell them.
But the jolting impact of the September 11 attacks -- which have, for
the
first time, brought to our cities the terror and devastation of attacks
from the
sky -- will also encourage growing numbers of thoughtful Americans to
see
through the lies propagated by our nation's political and cultural
elite, and its
Zionist allies, to impose their will around the world. More and more
people
will understand that their government's overseas policies inevitably
have
consequences even here at home.
In 1948, as the Zionist state was being established in Palestine, U.S.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall, along with nearly every other
high-level U.S.
foreign affairs specialist, warned that American support for Israel
would
have dire long-term consequences. Events have fully vindicated their
concerns.
Over the long run, the September 11 attacks will encourage public
awareness
of our government's imperial role in the world, including a sobering
reassessment of this country's perverse "special relationship" with the
Jewish
ethnostate. Along with that, rage will grow against those who have
subordinated
American interests, and basic justice and humanity, to Jewish-Zionist
ambitions.
For more than 20 years the IHR has sought, through its educational
work, to
prevent precisely such horrors as the attacks in New York and
Washington. In
the years ahead, as we continue our mission of promoting greater public
awareness of history and world affairs, and a greater sense of public
responsibility
for the policies that generated the rage behind the September 11
attacks, this
work will be more important than ever.
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:48:30 EDT
Subject: The Real Reason They Hate Us- Ms. Nicole research assistant for Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal
Suzanne Nicole is webmaster and research assistant
for Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal.
http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/greaterisrael.htm
The Real Reason They Hate Us
By Suzanne Nicole
AlfredLilienthal@aol.com
March 23, 2003
If America wishes to truly protect our homeland from terrorist attacks
from
Islamic fundamentalists, it might help to know the real reason for
their
hatred toward us. The question has become almost proverbial after it
has been
asked so many times since the tragedy of 9-11: "Why do they hate us?"
No, it's not because they despise our free society or our women going
around
in skimpy clothing. And it's not because most of us are Christians,
Jews, or
secular unbelievers and therefore not Muslims. It started long ago well
before the terrorists who came to our American shores were even born.
They keep telling us the real reason, but we will not listen. To hear
and to
understand and to reply effectively, we would have to admit our
nation's
bias for over a half century against the Arab people and other Muslim
nations.
We created the reason for their hostility toward us. It is we and not
they who
started the grotesque "clash of civilizations" we now see facing us
over the
next generation or more.
Let us see what Arabs and other Muslims have repeatedly been saying
for over
fifty years.
In a November 1947 article, entitled "As the Arabs See the Jews," in
The
American Magazine, His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan said: "I
believe that you
do not realize how directly you are, as a nation, responsible in
general for
the whole Zionist move and specifically for the present terrorism. I
call
this to your attention because I am certain that if you realize your
responsibility, you will act fairly to admit it and assume it."
In an October 1954 report, entitled, "King Saud Interview by
Lilienthal on
Arab-American Relations and Zionism," in The Federal Herald, the
following
exchange took place between anti-Zionist Jewish American historian
Alfred M.
Lilienthal and King Saud of Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Lilienthal: "Your Majesty a few months ago, said that the Arabs do
not
care if they sacrifice a few million persons in order to put an end to
the
Zionists in Palestine."
His Majesty then said: "Frankly what I said is what I urge and preach.
It is
the only answer to what has been published by the responsible persons
of
Israel about the necessity that Israel should expand to comprise the
beds of the
Tigris and Euphrates, the Sinai Peninsula and the northern part of
Saudi
Arabia, including Medina, which is one of the two Holy Towns and the
Burial
place of the Moslems€™ Prophet, and which is after all my own land
and the land of
every Arab and Moslem. We have learned of this Zionist ambition from
the
statements of Israeli leaders and its creators who pleaded the course
yesterday,
and are still pleading it today. They are making no secret of this
scheme,
and they have made its study part of the school curriculum in Israel,
where
they cram the students€™ heads with these fanciful schemes. There is
no answer
to what they are after except this antidote, and the preparation of
what we
can in field of might and force."
On June 4, 1983, Imam Khomeini of Iran wrote, "I warn the governments
of the
Islamic countries. They should know that Israel, as I have said again
and
again and as you have heard time and again, will not be satisfied with
these
agreements. It sees the Arab governments from the Nile to the
Euphrates as
usurpers, and sooner or later with the help of America it will put its
malicious
plan into action if, God forbid, it should find the opportunity and if
the
Arab governments do not awaken from their deep slumber. Is it not a
source of
shame for the Muslims and the governments of the Islamic countries
that
America, from the other side of the world, can govern their destinies
and through
the usurping infidel, Israel, can ensnare and ruin them all?"
Every Arab and Muslim knows about this supposed Zionist plot to
continue to
occupy not only all of the Palestinian territories but to also
eventually
conquer most of the Arab nations to establish what is known as Greater
Israel.
They know about it even if they do not necessarily believe it. Most
Americans, however, have never heard about this strange dreadful
conspiracy, or they
dismiss it as the ravings of madmen like Osama Bin Laden. Yes, Osama
has
claimed this too as one of his primary reasons for attacks upon
America.
On February 16, 2003, the content of a tape recording reportedly from
Bin
Laden was made public. The Reuters news service version stated, "Bin
Laden said
an attack on Iraq would be followed by U.S. €œaggressions€ against
more Arab
countries such as Egypt, Sudan, Iran and Syria for the benefit of its
ally
Israel.
€œThis attack on Iraq is part of a new crusade to prepare the region,
after
dividing it, for the creation of a Greater Israel. This means the whole
region will be ruled by Jews,€ he said.
The recording began with bin Laden identifying the United States and
its
€œfoolish€ President George W. Bush as the enemy."
As the ferocious "Shock and Awe" U.S. bombing of Baghdad takes place,
not
only is President Bush looking foolish in waging a war against Iraq
that looks
suspiciously like the start of a war against Islam. There are dozens
of
officials in his administration who are currently bragging about the
next American
wars seemingly at least in part on behalf of Israel.
On February 17, 2003, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz carried this
headline,
"U.S. official to Israel: We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war."
Hmm,
isn€™t that exactly the same thing that Bin Laden was charging
against America
in the news only the day before? Worse yet, the persons this pledge
was being
made to were Sharon, Netanyahu, and Sharansky who happen to be well
known for
their determination to bring millions of more Jews from America and
around
the world into Israel itself as well as to maintain and expand the
settlements
in the West Bank and Gaza. The American official responsible for this
outrageous statement is Under Secretary of State John Bolton, a close
associate of
the well known Jewish and Christian Zionists actually in the Bush
administration or who are influencing it from neo-conservative
think-tanks: Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Perle, Wolfowitz, Abrams. Plus many others.
In President Bush€™s (justifications for war on Iraq) speech on
February 26,
2003 before a gathering of his apparently favorite think-tank, he
proudly
proclaimed, "At the American Enterprise Institute, some of the finest
minds in
our nation are at work on some of the greatest challenges to our
nation. You
do such good work that my administration has borrowed 20 such minds."
A visit to the American Enterprise Institute website, and reading the
magazine of the Institute on the Internet, will quickly reveal an
abundance of
quotes hostile to Arabs and Islam. Example: "It is useless for the
West to insist
it is not at war with Islam. Islam itself is on trial here; it must
now
choose its path."
Currently as the war on Iraq is taking place, we have been hearing
that the
new democratic government for the liberated Iraq will not be a puppet
regime
run by stooges of American and Israeli interests. It does not take
long for
another American official with Zionist ties to prove otherwise. At the
Washington Foreign Press Center Briefing in Washington, DC on March
19, 2003, Marc
Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, happened to
ridiculously claim about the new Iraqi democracy that will replace
Saddam€™s tyranny,
"And in terms of whether the first thing they do will be to recognize
the
State of Israel, I have no idea. But I certainly hope it's among the
very first
things that they do."
So, first we install a phony democratic regime in Iraq to embrace
Israel as
its best buddy. Next we have an American attack on Iran and Syria and
on and
on with the falling dominos of Islamic countries all the way to Saudi
Arabia.
Will we have in their place an entire Middle East of democratic puppet
regimes in service of Zionism? The American Enterprise Institute
magazine has
proclaimed, "We€™ll win this war!" The two illustrations of the enemy
used are of
the crescent and star of Islam and a photo of a vast gathering of
Muslims
kneeling in prayer.
We will indeed win this war of our own making if we want to bomb
billions of
Muslims into oblivion and occupy their devastated countries, as Perle
and
the rest of the ultra-Zionists who influence Bush would seem to be
deceptively
leading us to do. If, however, we wish to win the minds and hearts of
our
Muslim brothers and sisters to join with them in a new century of
peace, we
need to listen. Why do they hate us, and why would they stop hating
us? King
Abdullah of Jordan stated the problem but also stated the solution as
long ago
as 1947, "I have the most complete confidence in the fair-mindedness
and
generosity of the American public. We Arabs ask no favours. We ask
only that you
know the full truth, not half of it."
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