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2004-03-27 23:05 | User Profile
From Antiwar.com: [url]http://antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=2197[/url]
US Complicity in Israel's Misdeeds
By Charley Reese March 27, 2004
The murder of Hamas' spiritual leader, Sheik Yassin, makes perfect sense as long as you understand Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's strategy.
That strategy is to make peace impossible.
For three years, Sharon has done everything to prevent peace. He himself provoked the new uprising, re-invaded the occupied territories, destroyed the Palestinian Authority, forced Yasser Arafat into house arrest and launched an unprecedented, brutal campaign of assassinations, curfews, fences, destruction of property and random killing of Palestinians. The Israelis have killed about 2,700 Palestinians in the past three years, in contrast to about 700 Israelis killed in the same period.
At the same time, Sharon has refused all offers to negotiate, and whenever the Palestinians arranged a cease-fire on their side, Sharon broke it with a provocative raid or assassination. No other rogue state or rogue leader would have been allowed to get away with such behavior, but Israel has the U.S. government in its pocket. That's the answer to the question posed by the French ambassador to Great Britain as to why the world allows "this (expletive deleted) little country to cause the world so much trouble."
Sharon doesn't want peace, because he knows that any peace settlement would involve returning nearly all of the occupied territories to the Palestinians. Israel's goal has always been Palestine without Palestinians. He is greatly afraid that the world will lose patience and impose a settlement on Israel. Hence, his strategy is to make peace impossible so that he can impose unilaterally his own settlement ââ¬â a settlement, of course, that will condemn the Palestinians to unlivable conditions.
Now, that's all well and good if you are an Israeli and don't mind condemning future generations to perpetual conflict, but what about Americans? This is, after all, not legitimately our conflict. I've traveled in Palestine and the Middle East, and while it's interesting, it's not high on my list of vacation spots. We would be much better off if the only Americans who ever went there were the crews of oil tankers.
Unfortunately, our politicians, by cravenly obeying the wishes of Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby, have made us a part of the conflict. We've already paid in blood and treasure. Anybody who doesn't understand that the attack on 9/11 was directly related to the Palestinian and Israeli conflict hasn't been paying attention.
The Arab world sees us ââ¬â correctly ââ¬â as an accessory before and after the fact to all the crimes Israel commits against the Palestinians and other Arabs in the area. We cannot load Israel down with modern weapons, with gifts of more than $90 billion of American tax dollars, with absolute protection from all attempts to hold it accountable under international law, and then pretend we are innocent. We are guilty by proxy of murder, land theft, destruction of property and all the other human misery that Israel has caused in the region.
So, if you're one of those rah-rah Israel First supporters, don't complain when the terrorists come looking for you. You've allowed your politicians to enlist you in somebody else's war, and in war there are always casualties on both sides.
America has become a nation of pathological irresponsibility. Nobody wants to take responsibility for his or her own actions, which is the basic cause of the litigation flood. Least of all do American politicians wish to do so. They would rather heap on the manure that the terrorism directed at us has nothing whatsoever to do with the policies they have followed for the past 30 years or more. In truth, it has everything to do with those policies.
So, if you or your loved ones get bloodied by terrorists, then blame your Christian Zionists, your Israel First crowd and your corrupt politicians who have their tongues in the ears and their hands in the pockets of the Israeli lobby.
2004-03-28 01:52 | User Profile
AMEN to this fine essay.
2004-03-28 05:45 | User Profile
For three years, Sharon has done everything to prevent peace. He himself provoked the new uprising, re-invaded the occupied territories, destroyed the Palestinian Authority, forced Yasser Arafat into house arrest and launched an unprecedented, brutal campaign of assassinations, curfews, fences, destruction of property and random killing of Palestinians.
Herr Hitler and Comrade Stalin would be so very proud of "William Tecumseh" Sharon. He'd be right up there with their benefactors, the Rothchilds, in their "favorite Jews" catagory.
So, if you or your loved ones get bloodied by terrorists, then blame your Christian Zionists, your Israel First crowd and your corrupt politicians who have their tongues in the ears and their hands in the pockets of the Israeli lobby.
I'm reminded of how Sharon used that idiot General Aoun and his Christian Phalangests to do his dirty work at Sabra and Shatila. Sharon and Aoun sat on top of a building drinking champagne, and taking in the massacre of women and children like they were at a soccer match; beyond evil. Afterwards, Sharon kicked Aoun and the Phalangests to the curb, and let these dupes suffer the consequinces as he walked away into the sunset. My Christian Lebanese wife turns white hot at the mere mention of this idiot Aoun's name.
Anyway, pompus fools like Falwell and Robertson are Sharon's new Aouns, and all these cocksure "Bible knowing" Baptists and other various and sundry fundamentalists around here are his new Phalangests. When he and his tribe have no more use for this new set of idiots they will discard them also, without a second of hesitation. It's just the Tribe's way of doing things. Pitiful, pitiful.
2004-03-28 06:18 | User Profile
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Articles: Doug Collins
On Orwell and Israel Back to Doug Collins Articles By Doug Collins | The Collins Column [submitted by Paul Fromm and FS Announce]
In South Africa and the frenzied cries from our pols and press that there's nothing racist about Israel and Zionism.
The matter is really puzzling. I, therefore, crave enlightenment. But I don't think I'll get it from Hedy Fry, our multicult minister who has gone to Durban looking for burning crosses.
Take the expression "ethnic cleansing", of which our lot in Ottawa say the IsraeIis are innocent. It first saw the light during that little war in the Balkans. There was nothing new about it, however. It has been going on since Paleolithic times.and the Israelis are expert at it.
It started in what used to be Palestine the moment Israel was created. Three-quarters of a million Palestinians were chased out, and they and their children have been refugees ever since.
Take terrorism. President Bush apparently blames the dispossessed for it. Perhaps he has never heard of Menachem Begin, who in 1948 filled wells with murdered Palestinians of all ages at a place called Deir Yassin. Begin later become the prime minister. And he had no difficulty in coming to Canada on fund-raising trips.
How about Ariel Sharon? He was the guy who as the Israeli defence minister in 1982 gave the green light to the massacres at the Sabron and Chatilla refugee camps in which at least a thousand Palestinians ended up dead. It caused such a scandal, even in Israel, that he was forced to resign. But I suppose all has been forgiven, since he is now the prime minister. In the U.K., though, a BBC program concluded that Sharon could be put on trial for war crimes. More anti-Semitism!
Begin, Sharon, Yitzak Shamir, and Yitzak Rabin, prime ministers all, have each deserved the title of terrorist. But they are never named as such in our media. That sort of thing is reserved for Yasser Arafat & Co.
You don't get much of the Palestinian side of the story but last year PBS did get around to telling some of it in a documentary called The People and the Land. It showed how the Palestinians are still being thrown out of their homes and land to make room for Jewish "settlers". And how Israel takes not the slightest notice of U.N. resolutions condemning such things.
At the time the program was aired, 140,000 Jews had been moved in and thousands of Palestinian homes had been destroyed. They are now, as the commentator put it, "100 per cent segregated communities" that are in effect "dozens of little South Africas". Palestinians are not even allowed to walk in those districts.
Also in Israel, ethnicity is a factor in what sort of number plate you get for your car. If you are a Jew, it's yellow. If you are a Palestinian, it's white, or blue if you live on the occupied West Bank.
That isn't racist, of course. But if it isn't, what is? And what do you call a system in which race and religion determine whether you can go to Israel to live? Any Jew from anywhere in the world can become an Israeli citizen, but Palestinians who have emigrated cannot go back to the country that was once theirs.
In view of all this I was perplexed to read a piece from the Calgary Herald in which the Palestinians were compared to the Nazis. It seems that they are oppressing the Jews, not the other way round. The writer was associate editor Paul Jackson, and at first I thought he was putting his readers on. But then it dawned on me that he was off his rocker. "Living in Israel today is like living in Nazi Germany," he wrote. "It's open season on the Jewish people and, as in Nazi Germany, the world apparently doesn't care."
In his view, the suicide bombers and other acts of desperation by Palestinians is a Nazi-like activity. So, presumably, is the rock throwing by Palestinian kids against Israelis armed with guns. Pardon me if this gets confusing, And yes, I know about concentration camps. But I never heard of the Nazis stacking themselves with explosives and blowing themselves up, etc.
Jackson must be looking over his shoulder at Izzy Asper & Co., who own the Herald. He's probably looking for promotion and I'm sure he'll get it, IzzyPress being pro-Zionist to the extent of ordering its minions to run editorials from the Jerusalem Post.
Racism? Of course Israel is a racist state. It's just that no Western leaders want to admit it, there being far more Jewish power in the West than Arab.
Why do you think that at last count the U.S. had given $77 billion in aid to Israel? Which, as that PBS program reported, is seven times as much as it has given to the whole of Black Africa?
As George Orwell put it, two and two make five, war is peace, and freedom is slavery.
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2004-03-28 09:19 | User Profile
Collins passed away a few years back
2004-03-29 12:48 | User Profile
Centinel,
Yes I remember Doug Collins, I posted a number of his article on the SFF. I was greatly sadened to hear of his death a few years back.
2004-03-30 04:01 | User Profile
Any Freeper lurkers here? Wonder what the status of Charlie Reese is over there now? I'm sure articles like this just do him wonders :lol: