It seems no matter what, Israel gets away with it. From the
imprisonment and murder of children, to blockading an entire nation of people, Israel gets away with it. There seems to
be an unquestioned support of Israel that “keeps out eyes shut, our mouths
closed and our wallets open,” no matter what Israel does.[1]
The powerful Israeli lobby makes sure that Israel gets away with it.
Grant Smith, author of, Big
Israel; How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, describes the Israel lobby as:
A $3.7 billion nonprofit ecosystem
with 14,000 employees, 350,000 volunteers and a paying membership of 774,00.
And what does Israel get for all this investment to
influence public opinion. It gets an American government willing to look the
other way, a news media seldom raising an objection and millions of Christian
Zionist putting a biblical halo over Israel’s atrocities.
But, there is another side to the story. At the founding of
the State of Israel, acts of violence were designed to frighten Arabs into
fleeing for their lives. One of the best documented examples was the village of Deir Yassin
I saw cut-off genitalia and women’s
crushed stomachs. It was direct murder. Soldiers shot everyone they saw,
including women and children. Parents begged commanders to stop the slaughter,
to please stop shooting.[2]
No one denies that most of those slashed to death were women
and children. Jewish terrorist shot people on their homes and threw their
bodies into the streets as a message to neighboring Arab villages. Survivors of
the raid tell stories of Israeli soldiers starting to kill early in the morning
and continuing all day. They killed everyone they saw, including old people and
children. One pregnant woman had her stomach cut open with a butcher’s knife.[3]
Rather than hiding its face in shame, Israel’s leaders
promoted the massacre as a propaganda tool to frighten other villages into fleeing
their homes and leaving them for Israeli Jews to occupy, “free of charge.”
Also in the minds of Americans should be the USS Liberty.
Fifty years ago, this month, Israel deliberately attacked a
US navy ship, killing 34 sailors and wounding 171, machine gunned our life
rafts in the water and did everything it could to sink the USS Liberty. Why would
Israel attack an American ship? To stop
messages from reaching the world that Israel was preparing to invade Syria to
capture the Golan Heights. And to this
day, the lobby prevails. The US Government has done NOTHING to protect or
protest the assault on the Liberty. Israel
has well learned that it can do anything, even kill Americans, and the US will
sweep it under the rug.[4]
No one is safe from Israel’s lobby or its self-proclaimed
“right to defend itself.”
As the father of a mentally disabled son, I not only read
about Nanar Mujahed, I feel her story. Just last week, (April 21, 2017), Israeli
occupation soldiers opened fire on this disabled Palestinian young woman. She certainly
posed no threat to them. Frightened and confused as she was, they even put her
in handcuffs at the hospital. Now, in addition to having a mental handicap,
Manar Mujahed is also paralyzed.[5]
No matter what, Israel gets away with it.
Thomas Are
May 3, 2017
[1]
Filmmaker, Tom Hayes, Quoted by Delinda Hanley in the Introduction to the
fourth “The Israel Lobby and American Policy” conference, Washington, D.C.,
March 24,2017.
[2].Lanni
Brenner, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revolutions From Jabotinsky to Shamir,
(Zed Books, Ltd. 1984). P. 97. And Ralph Schoenman, The Hidden History of
Zionism, (Veritas Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1988) p.33.
[3].Quoted
in David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive
Branch: The Root of Violance on the Middle East, Faber and Faber, 1977) p.
141. Cited in Clifford Wright, Facts and
Fables: The Arab-Isreli Conflict, (London, Kegan Paul International. 1989)
p.19
[4] I urge
you to Google, HOWARD FILMS, LOSS OF LIBERTY Liberty . Again, this is a history that we should know
if we are to understand how the US
defers to Israel ,
time and time again.
[5]
Mondoweiss, Israeli Soldiers Opened Fire
at Mentally disabled Palestinian.
April, 21, 2017.
I am glad you are not only proud to be liberal, but blessed with moral rectitude too.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent and informative article. You say you are proud to be a liberal. I am as conservative as a person can be. Not neo-con but a true conservative in the older sense, a traditionalist, a monarchist even. But I agree with you on Israel, on all the wars. It is a shame that so many Christians are Zionists. I am a traditional Catholic and certainly no Zionist. I think the terms "liberal" and "conservative" should be re-thought. The same government that turns it's head, or even encourages Israel's atrocities, the same government that lets itself be the dog that the tail wags, is the government that wants these labels, conservative and liberal, to remain in place.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead. Say it. Israel did 9-11. Here's the short course in two links: http://bollyn.com/15522/ and http://noi.org/911Revisited . The ugly truth about 9-11 is their Achilles heel.
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