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Subject: The Real Reason They Hate Us- Ms. Nicole research assistant for Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal
Suzanne Nicole is webmaster and research assistant
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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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RePorterNoteBook@aol.com | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: Learning from the September 11 Attacks |
| Institute for Historical Review
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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RePorterNoteBook@aol.com | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:35 am Post subject: It's US Policy in Support of Israel, Stupid... |
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:05:36 EDT
Subject: CIA agent: President refuses the obvious -"We are not fighting criminality or terrorism"
To:
Sun, September 12, 2004
Why West is losing
By Eric Margolis
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/09/12/6260
01.html
Three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, America's politicians
and
media continue to gravely deceive the public about the so-called war on
terrorism.
Now the definitive book on terrorism has appeared that should be
mandatory
reading for every thinking person. It's called Imperial Hubris: Why The
West is
Losing the War on Terror.
The cover simply identifies the author as "Anonymous," but he's already
been
widely identified in the American media as Michael Scheuer, a senior
terrorism
analyst for the CIA.
It is unprecedented that a serving CIA officer was allowed to publish a
book,
one that is clearly a dramatic rebuke to the neoconservatives who drove
the
U.S. into two wars.
Scheuer's work is a goldmine of information and brilliant analysis. It
breaks
taboos and sweeps away the clouds of lies about al-Qaida, Iraq and
Afghanistan. He says U.S. leaders refuse to accept the obvious -- "we
are fighting a
worldwide Islamic insurgency -- not criminality or terrorism."
The U.S. has made only "a modest dent in enemy forces."
None of bin Laden's reasons for waging war on the U.S., writes Scheuer,
"have
anything to do with our freedom, liberty, and democracy (as President
George
Bush claims), but everything to do with U.S. policies and actions in
the
Muslim world," notably unlimited support for Israel's repression of the
Palestinians and the destruction of Iraq.
"For cheap, easily accessible oil, Washington and the West have
supported
Muslim tyrannies (Osama) bin Laden and other Islamists seek to
destroy," Scheuer
writes. "The war has the potential to last beyond our children's
lifetimes and
be fought mostly on U.S. soil."
A coup for bin Laden
Bin Laden, argues Scheuer, is widely viewed by much of the Muslim
world,
infuriated by American actions in the Mideast, as neither a terrorist
or madman
but as a skilled warrior, the sole Muslim leader standing up to
predatory
western powers.
Ironically U.S. and British military intervention in Afghanistan and
Iraq
"are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world," a prime bin
Laden goal.
Bush's misbegotten invasion of Iraq was "icing on bin Laden's cake."
The threat today facing America "is the defensive jihad (holy
struggle), an
Islamic military reaction triggered by an attack by non-Muslims on the
Islamic
faith, on Muslims, on Muslim territory." Muslims are increasingly
fighting
back.
The Muslim world believes it is under total attack led by Bush -- a
massive
effort to crush all who oppose U.S. domination, destroy Islam's
inherent
political role, eliminate Muslim charities, impose western values on
the Islamic
world and maintain puppet rulers -- "spreading democracy" in Bush's
lexicon. Ter
rorism is merely the tactics of the poor fighting the rich.
The ultimate taboo
"U.S. military operations in the Muslim world," he adds, "validate bin
Laden's contention the U.S. is attacking Islam and supports any country
willing to
kill or persecute Muslims."
Scheuer, breaking the ultimate taboo, observes of Washington's "one-way
alliance" with Israel that "Israelis have succeeded in lacing tight the
ropes
binding the American Gulliver to the ... Jewish state and its
policies."
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are lost causes, Scheuer concludes.
The U.S.
is totally unable to create legitimate governments in either chaotic
nation,
only puppet regimes, supported by American bayonets.
If the U.S. stays, it will bleed endlessly; if it retreats, it faces
political disaster.
Washington, he charges, has no strategy and is merely "winging it."
In one of his most acute insights, Scheuer explains the U.S. cannot,
for all
of its riches, buy its way to victory in Afghanistan or Iraq.
"Honour is still the currency of value in the Middle East, more so than
goods
and services."
Blood-links trump all other affiliations or loyalties.
Honour is why the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to the U.S., a
man
they regarded as their guest and a war hero, and why he has still not
been
betrayed in spite of a $25-million US reward in a nation where the
annual income
is $147.
At least there is one person in Washington who understands the violence
surrounding us -- and has the courage and patriotism to tell Americans
the truth:
Their own arrogance and ignorance are driving them into a no-win war
against
1.3 billion Muslims.
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RePorterNoteBook@aol.com | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: "THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM": |
| Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:05:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joe Boysen"
Subject: "THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM": Brig. Gen. James J. David, Ret. 10/01/01
The war marketeering Goebbelsmedia "good war" cheerleaders were busy playing Irving Berlin's version of the national anthem and beating the war drums as loudly as they could. They didn't want to deal with this obvious first question because they knew the answer would also be too obvious. I remember pleading repeatedly and desperately via snail mail 50 letters at a time to the high command and big media along the lines of Jim's beautiful essay in order to stay the hand of war. We had just lost our son and didn't want anyone to have to face that pain. That was 20 or 30 thousand lives ago, and 100,000 cripples. The fools jumped Afghanistan on October 7th. The only good news is that America is finished in the world as sole superpower, etc. But we still have to get the land we love back from these pond scum people from hell and begin our century of atonement in purgatory.
MEDIA MONITORS, OCTOBER 1ST, 2001 A.D.
The source of terrorism
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by James J. David
America has just experienced the most spectacular and deadly terror attack in modern history. Four hijacked passenger planes were flown directly into the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Thousands of Americans were maimed and killed. The cost of this tragedy to American taxpayers is not known yet, but you can expect it to be tens of billions of dollars. This dastardly attack will undoubtedly cause America to suffer huge economic losses and change the way Americans have leisurely lived and traveled for decades. It may even lead to an American and worldwide depression.
These terrible acts of terrorism must be fought with every ounce of American resolve. And those who commit such heinous acts must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. No such act must ever be permitted on American soil.
We Americans must ask ourselves why we are hated by such groups. Why do people sacrifice their lives to bring terror on our soil? Why is there terrorism against the United States of America? Unless we understand the "why" of these acts, we can never completely prevent such acts in the future. For every nation is vulnerable, and always will be, to those who are willing to sacrifice their lives to kill others. That's why it is equally important, if not more so, to find out what causes terrorism as it is to strike back at terrorism.
The news media have done its best to tell us who is responsible for this bloody attack on the American people but nobody yet has told us why the attack took place. All that we know is that a bunch of "Arab Muslim cowards" committed this act.
Calling the attackers "cowards" may not be the best way to describe them. The terrorists committed an indescribably horrible and ruthless act against the American people, but calling them cowards is not the best description. Kamikazes may be misguided, but sacrificing one's own life for a cause has never been called cowardice. And using words such as cowards or madmen doesn't answer the question of why these horrendous acts occurred, unless one thinks every coward and madman wants to blow up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Those descriptions help prevent people from discovering the reason why the event actually occurred. And, if we want to prevent such occurrences from happening in the future, it is absolutely vital to understand "why."
Maybe a good question to ask is why these "crazy," "cowardly," Arabs never attack Switzerland or Sweden? What could it be that these countries do, or don't do that causes them to be ignored while we are targeted.
Let me be direct and come straight to the point. The cause of this terrorism is our involvement in and support of the criminal behavior of the Israeli government. You can be certain that you will never hear this accusation from the controlled news media, but nevertheless, let the truth be known. It may not be the "political correct" response, but political correctness is not one of my concerns.
You see, the Palestinians and many of their Arab allies have been the target of a half-century of unrelenting Israeli terrorism. Israel took over Palestine and drove out over 800,000 people from their homes through horrendous acts of terrorism. Among those acts was the sadistic massacre of over 250 Palestinian old men, women and children at Deir Yassin. After the bloodletting, the Jews then purposely publicized the event so as to make the people flee in panic from their homes and businesses from which they still haven't been allowed to return.
The terror also was applied to the British, such as the horrendous bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
Not only did they establish their Israeli state over Palestinian land, the Jews took the Palestinians' personal property: their land, farms, homes and businesses. After driving out the Palestinian refugees and refusing their return, they then passed an "abandonment land" law that gave it to the Jews.
In 1980s Israel killed an estimated 40,000 civilians as it invaded the nation of Lebanon and relentlessly bombed and attacked cities and villages, including the ancient and beautiful city of Beirut. The current Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, oversaw the massacre of thousands of refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon.
And what about Iraq? Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called the death of 500,000 Iraqi children from starvation due to UN sanctions, "acceptable and worth it" during a CBS interview on "60 Minutes" a few years ago. In other words, it's worth having 500,000 Iraqi children die in misery in order to safeguard Israel's position.
It has not stopped since. Israel has more prisoners per capita than any other nation of the world, more than Stalinist Russia, or Red China during their worst periods. It routinely tortures its Palestinian prisoners, and is in fact the only nation in the modern world that legally sanctions torture.
Israel has targeted and assassinated thousands of Palestinian leaders, and this includes scholars, clerics, businessmen, philosophers and poets, anyone who inspires the Palestinian people to restoration of their homeland. These assassinations have occurred all over the world, even in the United States.
In the process, they have killed many thousands of women and children. Even today, while America reads of the World Trade Center Tragedy, Israeli troops have killed 20 Palestinians in less than 72 hours, including two young Palestinian girls, ages 9 and 11 and one Palestinian boy, age 14. Ariel Sharon is taking advantage of America's tragedy to hide any news coverage of his continued carnage and destruction to the Palestinian people.
In addition to the many human rights violations committed against the Palestinian people, Amnesty International, in 1999, reported that "Since 1987 the Israeli authorities have demolished at least 2,650 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.... As a result 16,700 Palestinians (including 7,300 children) have lost their homes."
In addition, the Israelis have uprooted over 100,000 olive trees which were, in many cases, the only sources of income for these Palestinian farmers. These homes and olive trees were demolished with American made bulldozers while the leaders in Washington looked the other way, giving the green light to these Israeli barbaric acts.
And it has not just been the Palestinians who have suffered Israeli terror. In April 1996 the Israeli military targeted a Lebanese Refugee Camp in Qana, Lebanon that killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children, in which a U.N. investigation found Israel to be at fault. When a vote was taken in the United Nations to condemn Israel for the killings, the United States was the only country to vote against the condemnation. What does that tell the rest of the world?
Every Palestinian and Arab is aware that Israel's half century of terror could never have occurred without the active financial, military, and diplomatic support of the United States. They know that the Jewish Lobby has dominant control of American Mideast Policy.
They know that almost every bomb that kills their people comes from America. Every bullet, every tank, every fighter plane, is manufactured or paid for by American dollars. It is America's billions of dollars of support that have enabled the Jewish state to terrorize the Arab people for half a century.
That is why the Arabs hate us; and that is why they are trying to strike back at us. That is why we will continue to be vulnerable to men who willingly give up their lives to avenge their people. Striking back at the terrorists is important, but getting to the source of terrorism is even more important.
It's time to get tough with Israel.
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 nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject: Would Americans accept an Israeli occupation for 36 minutes? |
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:47:55 EDT
Subject: Would Americans accept an Israeli occupation for 36 minutes?
To:
Americans wouldn't accept living under an Israeli occupation for 36
minutes,
much less 36 years...
Hello:
...........Robbin, you call them "terrorists"............I call them
"freedom fighters."
I don't blame the terrorists/freedom fighters for attacking
America..........considering the fact of history in this
issue.........particularly, the U.S. government's role in funding and
arming Israel with nuclear weapons and complete navy, air force,
special forces, M1-A1 Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters,
etc.,.......which Israel uses to kill Palestinians........no wonder
they hate and attack us......we've been funding and facilitating
Israel's illegal occupation and war against Palestine for 36 years
now......our Democratic and Republican parties have a shameful legacy
of
supporting Israel's unlawful deadly activity for decades now.
If Bush was a real American, he would tell the American people the
truth: The reason the terrorists attack and hate us IS BECAUSE our
government has funded and armed Israel in their unlawful war and
occupation of Palestine. Then, Bush should cut off all U.S. funding to
Israel until Israel, ".... Complies with the U.N. resolutions," as
President Bush so frequently told Saddam Hussein.
The point is, we need a president and congress who refuses to be bought
off by Israeli special interest groups in Washington, and do the
business of the American people -- instead of granting Israeli wishes.
The U.S. government is hated worldwide because of U.S. hypocrisy in our
policy of favoritism for Israel over the rule of law. The world
community considers America a great hypocrite since Bush calls for
Muslims to comply with U.N. resolutions while Bush refuses, REFUSES to
call for Israel to comply with over 100 U.N. resolutions Israel has
been in violation of for decades now.
What are the terrorists/freedom fighters supposed to do? Nothing? Are
they supposed to thank us for funding and arming Israel? Are they
supposed to sit quietly by while our government and Israel continue to
intentionally violate international law -- occupying Palestine and
killing Palestinians?
Americans wouldn't accept living under an Israeli occupation for 36
minutes, much less 36 years. Wake up America!!!! Bush is goddamn
stupid, he actually said: "I wouldn't want to be occupied
either - nobody wants to be occupied." Bush was referring to his
occupation of Iraq. Has he ever heard of the illegal Israeli occupation
of Palestine?
Ron Harold
studioron@verizon.net
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