9/11 WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. - IF THE US HAD NOT HELPED TORTURE THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE.
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Liberating America From Israel
Issues; Posted on: 2007-04-10
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"For 35 years, not a word has been expressed in that committee
or in either chamber of Congress that deserves to be called
debate on Middle East policy."
By Paul Findley
Nine-eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused
to help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express
this conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth. I believe
the catastrophe could have been prevented if any U.S. president during
the past 35 years had had the courage and wisdom to suspend all U.S.
aid until Israel withdrew from the Arab land seized in the 1967
Arab-Israeli war.
The U.S. lobby for Israel is powerful and intimidating, but any
determined president - even President Bush this very day - could
prevail and win overwhelming public support for the suspension of aid
by laying these facts before the American people:
Israel's present government, like its predecessors, is determined to
annex the West Bank - biblical Judea and Sumaria - so Israel will
become Greater Israel. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who maintain a powerful
role in Israeli politics, believe the Jewish Messiah will not come
until Greater Israel is a reality. Although a minority in Israel, they
are committed, aggressive, and influential. Because of deep religious
conviction, they are determined to prevent Palestinians from gaining
statehood on any part of the West Bank.
In its violent assaults on Palestinians, Israel uses the pretext of
eradicating terrorism, but its forces are actually engaged advancing
the territorial expansion just cited. Under the guise of
anti-terrorism, Israeli forces treat Palestinians worse than cattle.
With due process nowhere to be found, hundreds are detained for long
periods and most are tortured. Some are assassinated. Homes, orchards,
and business places are destroyed. Entire cities are kept under
intermittent curfew, some confinements lasting for weeks. Injured or
ill Palestinians needing emergency medical care are routinely held at
checkpoints for an hour or more. Many children are undernourished. The
West Bank and Gaza have become giant concentration camps. None of this
could have occurred without U.S. support. Perhaps Israeli officials
believe life will become so unbearable that most Palestinians will
eventually leave their ancestral homes.
Once beloved worldwide, the U.S. government finds itself reviled in
most countries because it provides unconditional support of Israeli
violations of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the
precepts of all major religious faiths.
How did the American people get into this fix?
Nine-eleven had its principal origin 35 years ago when Israel's U.S.
lobby began its unbroken success in stifling debate about the proper
U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict and effectively concealed from
public awareness the fact that the U.S. government gives massive
uncritical support to Israel.
Thanks to the suffocating influence of Israel's U.S. lobby, open
discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been non-existent in our
government all these years. I have firsthand knowledge, because I was
a member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee in
June 1967 when Israeli military forces took control of the Golan
Heights, a part of Syria, as well as the Palestinian West Bank and
Gaza. I continued as a member for 16 years, and to this day maintain a
close watch on Congress.
For 35 years, not a word has been expressed in that committee or in
either chamber of Congress that deserves to be called debate on Middle
East policy. No restrictive or limiting amendments on aid to Israel
have been offered for 20 years, and none of the few offered in
previous years received more than a handful of votes. On Capitol Hill,
criticism of Israel, even in private conversation, is all but
forbidden, treated as downright unpatriotic, if not anti-Semitic. The
continued absence of free speech was assured when those few who spoke
out - Senators Adlai Stevenson and Charles Percy, and Reps. Paul
"Pete" McCloskey, Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard, and myself - were
defeated at the polls by candidates heavily financed by pro-Israel forces.
As a result, legislation dealing with the Middle East has been heavily
biased in favor of Israel and against Palestinians and other Arabs
year after year. Home constituencies, misled by news coverage equally
lop-sided in Israel's favor, remain largely unaware that Congress
behaves as if it were a subcommittee of the Israeli parliament.
However, the bias is widely noted beyond America, where most news
media candidly cover Israel's conquest and generally excoriate
America's complicity and complacency. When President Bush welcomed
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, sometimes called the Butcher of
Beirut, as "my dear friend" and "a man of peace" after Israeli forces,
using U.S.-donated arms, completed their devastation of the West Bank
last spring, worldwide anger against American policy reached the
boiling point.
The fury should surprise no one who reads foreign newspapers or
listens to BBC. In several televised statements long before 9/11,
Osama bin Laden, believed by U.S. authorities to have masterminded
9/11, cited U.S. complicity in Israel's destruction of Palestinian
society as a principal complaint. Prominent foreigners, in and out of
government, express their opposition to U.S. policies with
unprecedented frequency and severity, especially since Bush announced
his determination to make war against Iraq.
The lobby's intimidation remains pervasive. It seems to reach every
government center, and even houses of worship and revered institutions
of higher learning. It is highly effective in silencing the many U.S.
Jews who object to the lobby's tactics and Israel's brutality.
Nothing can justify 9/11. Those guilty deserve maximum punishment, but
it makes sense for America to examine motivations promptly and as
carefully as possible. Terrorism almost always arises from deeply-felt
grievances. If they can be eradicated or eased, terrorist passions are
certain to subside.
Today, a year after 9/11, President Bush has made no attempt to
redress grievances, or even to identify them. In fact, he has made the
scene far worse by supporting Israel's religious war against
Palestinians, an alliance that has intensified anti-American anger. He
seems oblivious to the fact that nearly two billion people worldwide
regard the plight of Palestinians as today's most important
foreign-policy challenge.
No one in authority will admit a calamitous reality that is skillfully
shielded from the American people but clearly recognized by most of
the world: America suffered 9/11 and its aftermath and may soon be at
war with Iraq, mainly because U.S. policy in the Middle East is made
in Israel, not in Washington.
Israel is a scofflaw nation and should be treated as such. Instead of
helping Sharon intensify Palestinian misery, our president should
suspend all aid until Israel ends its occupation of Arab land Israel
seized in 1967. The suspension would force Sharon's compliance or lead
to his removal from office, as the Israeli electorate will not
tolerate a prime minister who is at odds with the White House.
If Bush needs an additional reason for doing the right thing, he can
justify the suspension as a matter of military necessity, an essential
step in winning international support for his war on terrorism. He can
cite a worthy precedent. When President Abraham Lincoln issued the
proclamation that freed only the slaves in states that were then in
rebellion, he made the restriction because of "military necessity." If
Bush suspends U.S. aid, he will liberate all Americans from long years
of bondage to Israel's misdeeds.
About the author
Paul Findley, a U.S. Congressional Representative from Illinois
1961-83, is the author of three books related to the Middle East,
including They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront
Israel's Lobby (1985) and, most recently, Silent No More: Confronting
America's False Images of Islam. He resides in Jacksonville, Illinois.
This essay was issued on Sept. 12, 2002.
Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/
News Source: Institute for Historical Review
http://www.thenausea.com/elements/thenotforgotten/rachel/index.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0123-07.htm
Strike Breaking
STRIKE BREAKING (AS REPORTED BY NYT AND OTHER AMERICAN PAPERS)
members of that Palestinian generation that grew up knowing nothing but
occupation
With anger, hatred, and sheer ferocity, thousands of youngsters hurled rocks
at their Israeli occupiers, undaunted by the gunfire that greeted them. This
was more than civil unrest. ...It was the beginning of a civil rebellion -
Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
On that day, - wrote John Kifner in The New York Times, - the vast army of
Arab laborers who wait on tables, pick vegetables, haul garbage, lay brick
and perform virtually all Israel's menial work, stayed home.: John Kifner,
New York Times, December 22, 1987.
The Israeli response to the uprising was brutal. Defense
Minister Yitzhak
Rabin ordered the use of tanks, armored vehicles and
automatic rifles
against an unarmed population.
The San Francisco
Examiner cited Rabin as openly advocating assassination.
"They can shoot to
hit leaders of disorder," Rabin said in defense of the
army's practice of
using marksmen with high-powered .22-caliber rifles to
shoot indiscriminately
at Palestinian youth. - San Francisco Examiner,
December 23,
1987.
Rabin ordered house-to-house searches, first for young men
and later for
anyone of whom an example might be made. By December 27, over
2,500
Palestinians were seized, many of them as young as twelve; by the end
of
January the number reached 4,000 and was rising. The "militants
"were
marked for deportation. Israeli high-security jails and detention
centers
were overflowing. Mass trials of Palestinians were
underway.
The act of brutality which most inflamed the Palestinian
population was the
army seizure of the wounded from hospital beds. This
practice, standard
procedure throughout the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, made
Shifa Hospital in
Gaza a center of resistance. Great crowds amassed to defend
the wounded,
whom, they rightfully feared, would never be seen
again.
No fear of Jews standing up against cruelty and sadism as the
Christians DID
again and again.
The Testimony of a
Rescuer
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/rescuer.htm
http://www.auschwitz.dk/docu/Default.htm
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Denmark.htm
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/r/ftp.py?people/r/roberts.jeff/1996/roberts.1096
http://www.resistance.com/Hayward/hay2.html
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/r/ftp.py?people/r/roberts.jeff/1996/roberts.1096
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/74P51.htm
A mother of a Palestinian man shot three times in the head by Israeli
soldiers was asked if she would let her remaining sons join the
demonstrations. " As long as I am alive, "she responded, "I am going to
teach the young people to fight ... I don't care whatever happens, as long
as we get our land." - John Kifner, New York Times, December 21, 1987.
"They entered the house like animals, shouting," the 22-year
old student at
Bir Zeit University said. "They took us from the house,
kicking us in the
head, beating us, all the soldiers with their rifle
butts."Two others, he
said, beat his hands with lengths of two-by-fours,
breaking the bones.
The first priority is to use force, might, beatings.
[This] is considered
more effective than detention ... [because] he may then
resume stoning
soldiers. But if troops break his hand, he won't be able to
throw stones. -
New York Times, January 21, 1988.
AGAINST AN UNARMED CIVILIAN POPULATION.
No matter which house one calls, the anguished accounts of
family members
wounded or arrested pour forth. Convoys of buses cruise the
streets of
Nablus followed by vans of the Mossad, Israel's secret police.
Army units go
from house to house pulling youths from their beds at 3 a.m. As
the buses
fill, the soldiers beat the youths viciously around the head,
shins, groin
and back. Shrieks fill the air.
AGAINST AN UNARMED
CIVILIAN POPULATION.
By
April 1988 over 150 Palestinians had died. The Israeli government
had
admitted to the arrest of 2,000 people, bringing the acknowledged total
to
4,000. The real figure was far higher.
Sources in the West Bank and
Gaza established that the number detained by
the weekend of March 27 had
exceeded 13,000. Bassam Shaka'a, deposed Mayor
of Nablus, placed the total
held solely in a hastily constructed barbed-wire
encampment at Dhariyah at
10,000.
AGAINST AN UNARMED CIVILIAN POPULATION.
In
the Balata camp outside Nablus, and in the Casbah - the old quarter -
l, 000
people were arrested in a period of 48 hours.
AGAINST AN UNARMED CIVILIAN POPULATION.
THE DISCOVERY OF PEOPLE IN DITCHES IN THE FIELDS - SHOT IN THE BACK OR WITH THEIR HEADS CAVED IN - HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM VILLAGES THROUGHOUT THE WEST BANK AND GAZA
TWO
OF THE CHILDREN, AGES 9 AND 11 , WERE TAKEN BY THE SOLDIERS IN THEIR
night
clothes, frog-marched in the streets and beaten as they were forced by
the
jeering soldiers to clear debris.
NEW YORK TIMES
Fleets
of helicopters fly over Nablus at night dropping a dense, green toxic
gas
over the city. The smell pervades every house. Armed units fire
canisters of
the substance into houses at random. Doctors at Ittihad
Hospital reported
several deaths and severe lung injuries from this as-yet
unidentified
asphyxiating chemical, totally distinct from tear gas.
Among the victims
was the grandmother of the Da'as family and the
100-year-old father of noted
Nablus attorney Mohammad Irshaid. Soldiers had
entered the house at 2 a.m.,
smashing furniture and firing a canister of the
dreaded green gas while
preventing the family from leaving.
Simultaneously,
the Israeli army targeted the hospitals. Army trucks rammed
ambulances and
blocked them from reaching the homes of those overcome by the
gas. Soldiers
entered the Ittihad Hospital in Nablus numerous times,
arresting the wounded
and those waiting to give blood to family members.
EVEN THE OPERATING THEATRE
WAS INVADED WHILE SURGEONS WERE OPERATING ON
PATIENTS.
DOCTORS
WERE BEATEN AND EQUIPMENT SMASHED. FAMILY MEMBERS WERE PREVENTED
FROM
ENTERING THE HOSPITAL AND THE CARS OF DOCTORS AND NURSES WERE DESTROYED
BY
SOLDIERS.
Meanwhile, all of Nablus was paralysed by a total strike. All
the streets in
every quarter of the city were without open shops or business
activity. As
gas permeated the city, cries and chants filled the
night.
Gas
canisters recovered by Bassam Shaka'a, Yousef al-Masri [chief of
Ittihad
Hospital] and American author Alfred Lilienthal bear the markings
"560 cs.
Federal Lab. Saltsburg, Pa. USA MK2 1988." Biochemists are studying
their
properties as casualties mount.
JOHN
KIFNER
reported
on April 4 that "Hundreds of refugees were
treated
in
United Nations clinics for gas inhalation." On April 15, Kifner
wrote,
"...gas has been thrown inside homes, clinics and schools where the
effects
are particularly severe."
This is still going on today, just cleverly concealed with active participation of western democracies governments, western democracies religious institions and western democracies media.
Apparently only the ungodly unreligious students find their conscience so stirred that they have gone to the oppressed citizens aid with the following results.
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> Nine-eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused
> to help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express
> this conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth. I believe
> the catastrophe could have been prevented if any U.S. president during
The islamadanian CULT destroyed Palestinian society. muslims are the
most ignorant species on the planet. FUCK allah who is satan. Fuck
moehammad who was satan's Butt Hole buddy.