lektura obowiazkowa, nie dla wasnera on wie lepiej,n the Israeli-controlled American media, we hear endlessly that Palestinians are terrorists
Adam Tomaszewski
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
"Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books” was a
London Times headline on December 11, 2009.
These attacks, together with the demolition of Palestinian homes, the
uprooting of Palestinians’ olive groves, the innumerable checkpoints
that prevent Palestinians from accessing schools, work, and medical
care, the Israeli Wall that denies Palestinians access to the land
stolen from them, and the isolation and blockade of the Gaza Ghetto,
are part of the Israeli government’s policy of genocide for the
Palestinians.
The Israel Lobby has such power over America that even former
President Jimmy Carter, a good friend of Israel, is demonized for
using the polite term--apartheid--for the genocide that has occurred
over the decades during which American “Christian” preachers, together
with bought-and-paid-for politicians, justified Israel’s policy of
slow genocide for Palestine.
Israelis who still have a moral conscience--a small part of the
population--endeavor to use moral protests against the inhumanity of
the Israeli government. Israelis Jeff Halper and Angela Godfrey-
Goldstein lead the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD),
a non-violent, direct-action group established to oppose and resist
Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories.
Under international law an occupier by military force is forbidden to
steal the occupied land. The US, however, has protected Israel’s
violation of international law for decades by vetoing UN resolutions.
Israel has been able to steal Palestine from the Palestinians, because
the US government used its power to prevent Israel from being held
accountable under international law.
In March 2003 American citizen Rachel Corrie stood in front of an
Israeli bulldozer, made by Caterpillar and sent to destroy a
Palestinian home. Her courageous act of defiance was regarded as an
annoyance, and she was run over and murdered by the Israeli bulldozer
operator. Israel suffered no consequences for its murder of an
American citizen who had a moral conscience.
In the Israeli-controlled American media, we hear endlessly that
Palestinians are terrorists who strap on explosives in order to kill
innocent Israelis and who terrorize Israeli towns by firing rockets
into them. One look at the maps above is enough to make clear who the
real terrorist is. The success of Israeli propaganda in the face of
totally obvious facts damns the ignorance and unconcern of the
American people.
The Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, which also has a moral conscience and
is intelligent to boot, wrote on December 4, 2009: “Every appointee to
the American government must endure a thorough background check by the
American Jewish community.”
Ha'aretz notes that any American that the President of the United
States proposes for an appointment to his government is subject to the
approval of the Israel Lobby, which can blackball appointees at will.
Ha'aretz gives the example of Charles Freeman, whom President Obama
intended to appoint as head of the National Intelligence Council. The
Israel Lobby proved, again, that it was more powerful than a mere
American President and prevented the appointment, citing Freeman’s
“anti-israel leaning.” In other words, because Freeman was not an
overboard apologist for Israel’s crimes he was unacceptable to the
Israel Lobby.
Ha'aretz reports: “The next attempt to appoint an intelligence aide,
in this case, former Republican senator Chuck Hagel, also resulted in
vast criticism over his not having a pro-Israel record.” The Israel
Lobby has blocked Hagel’s appointment by President Obama. Hagel
doesn’t want to start a war with Iran for Israel’s benefit and was
blackballed by Morton A. Klein, the president of the Zionist
Organization of America. Hagel, it seems, “refused to sign a letter
calling on then-president George Bush to speak about Iran’s nuclear
program at the G8 summit that year.”
Now it is a Jewish daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Hannah Rosenthal,
whose appointment to head the US Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-
Semitism, an office that is another indication of America’s puppet
state status, is under attack. Rosenthal was the head of the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs during 2000-2005. Her black mark came from
serving on the advisory board of the J Street Lobby, a recently-formed
American Jewish organization formed in opposition to AIPAC’s murderous
militarism.
The Israel Lobby’s opposition to Hannah Rosenthal shows that no moral
person can survive the Israel Lobby’s blackball.
The US, “the world’s only superpower,” has no independent voice in
Middle Eastern affairs. The real power rests in the hands of the
settler thug, Avigdor Lieberman, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel and
Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is the man who controls the Obama
government’s Middle East policy. Lieberman forced the “all-powerful
President of the US, Barack Omama,” to rescind his order to Israel to
halt the illegal settler settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Obama was given the bird and submitted to his master.
Macho Americans who prance around as if they owned the world are
nothing but the puppets of Israel. The US is not a country. It is a
colony.