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Ref. : Letters to the editor
08.16 Out Damn Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell
08.14 The End of Cheap Oil: The Future is Now
08.31 Lady and the Gramp: The Sinister Diversion of the Palin Selection
08.28 Media Cheer Biden Choice
08.27 War With Russia Is On The Agenda
08.26 Appalling "New Look" for The Sun Signals Abdication of Journalistic Standards
08.21 Mixed Truth of the Russia-Georgia War
08.16 John McCain's Party of Hate
08.15 Corporate Media Bashes New Chavez Enabling Law Decrees
08.15 Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
08.13 WPost and the Great Disconnect
08.12 WPost Admits Bungling Obama Quote
09.05 The Things They Left Behind (or Didn’t Remind You About)
09.05 Going on an Imperial Bender
09.05 Meet the Truth-Challenged GOP Vice Presidential Candidate: Sure A. Pallin'
09.04 The Anti-Obama Hate-Fest
09.04 Palin's 'Reformer' Myth
09.03 Did Palin Family Feud Affect Troopers?
09.02 Palin's Trouble with the Police
09.01 Minnesota Monster Mash: Police-State Zombies in a Dead Republic
08.31 Of All the Reasons McCain’s Palin Pick is Awful, Evidence of Her Abuse of Power is the Worst
08.30 McCain VP Pick Has History of Clashes
08.29 Great Speech, Big Questions, and a Curve Ball from McCain
08.28 Tongue of Flame: A Speech Presaging Endless War
08.28 Biden, Obama and The Blood-Dimmed Tide
08.28 Foreign Policy and National Security Are Not the Same Thing
08.27 Judge Rebuffs White House Immunity
08.27 What a McCain Victory Would Mean
08.22 Maybe We Should Just Hope the Republicans Win This Thing...
08.22 Loserville - Obama moves right
08.21 McCain's Ties to Neocon Hard Lines
08.21 Peace Mom v. Guardian of Power
08.20 Are You Ready For Nuclear War?
08.19 A Book Written to Defeat Obama
08.19 McCain's 'Cone of Silence' Caper
08.14 Is Perpetual War Our Future?
08.12 5 Years After Blackout, Power Grid Still in 'Dire Straits'
08.12 Olympic Shame
08.12 Thinking About Intermissions
08.11 ‘Medaling’ With Free Speech at the Olympics
08.11 Targeting Immigrants - The Largest Ever US ICE Raid
09.05 The real ‘Wrecking Crew’ -- not “conservatives,” but neoconservatives
09.05 Work of Evil: Beyond the Worst-Case Scenario in Somalia
09.04 Rebel Yell: Resistance and Renaissance in the Age of Terror
09.04 Katrina Redux
08.25 The Smash of Civilizations
08.22 Priming the Pump With Missile Defense: Empty Gestures Full of Blood
08.20 Musharraf, Not Bush, Follows Nixon
08.18 Fear, Procurement, Profit: Permanent War and the American Way
08.17 This Time, the World Is Not Buying It
08.15 'Imminent' Threats Should Be a Belli Laugh
09.03 Putin's Ruthless Gambit
09.01 Stoking Tensions, Risking Confrontation: A High Stakes US Gamble with Russia
08.28 Bush Escalates Tensions with Russia
08.28 Torture As Official Israeli Policy
08.25 Thinking About Cement
08.25 Reinventing the Evil Empire
08.18 Blockades: Acts of War
08.17 Rice’s Recipe for Duck Soup
08.14 The Lawless Roads: Bluster in Georgia, Rank Tyranny at Home
08.14 Marching Through Georgia V: U.S. Forces Moving Into Putin's Powderkeg
08.14 Marching Through Georgia IV: The Butt Thumper and the Bear
08.13 Using Georgia to Target Russia
08.12 From Stupid to Moronic to Evil
08.11 Marching Through Georgia III: Reality's Rout and Cheney's Viagra
08.11 Marching Through Georgia II: The Kremlin Surge
COMMENTARY:
The Shame of Being an American
Do you know that one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel's attacks on civilian residential districts are children? That is the report from Jan Egeland, the emergency relief coordinator for the UN. He says it is impossible for help to reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost always) Israel misses Hezbollah targets and hits civilian ones, one might think that Israeli fire is being guided by US satellites and US military GPS. Don't be surprised at US complicity. Why would the puppet be any less evil than the puppet master?
Of course, you don't know these things, because the US print and TV media do not report them.
Because Bush is so proud of himself, you do know that he has blocked every effort to stop the Israeli slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Bush has told the UN "NO." Bush has told the European Union "NO." Bush has told the pro-American Lebanese prime minister "NO." Twice. Bush is very proud of his firmness. He is enjoying Israel's rampage and wishes he could do the same thing in Iraq.
Does it make you a Proud American that "your" president gave Israel the green light to drop bombs on convoys of villagers fleeing from Israeli shelling, on residential neighborhoods in the capital of Beirut and throughout Lebanon, on hospitals, on power plants, on food production and storage, on ports, on civilian airports, on bridges, on roads, on every piece of infrastructure on which civilized life depends? Are you a Proud American? Or are you an Israeli puppet?
On July 20, "your" House of Representatives voted 410-8 in favor of Israel's massive war crimes in Lebanon. Not content with making every American complicit in war crimes, "your" House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press, also "condemns enemies of the Jewish state."
Who are the "enemies of the Jewish state"?
They are the Palestinians whose land has been stolen by the Jewish state, whose homes and olive groves have been destroyed by the Jewish state, whose children have been shot down in the streets by the Jewish state, whose women have been abused by the Jewish state. They are Palestinians who have been walled off into ghettos, who cannot reach their farm lands or medical care or schools, who cannot drive on roads through Palestine that have been constructed for Israelis only. They are Palestinians whose ancient towns have been invaded by militant Zionist "settlers" under the protection of the Israeli army who beat and persecute the Palestinians and drive them out of their towns. They are Palestinians who cannot allow their children outside their homes because they will be murdered by Israeli "settlers."
The Palestinians who confront Israeli evil are called "terrorists." When Bush forced free elections on Palestine, the people voted for Hamas. Hamas is the organization that has stood up to Israel. This means, of course, that Hamas is evil, anti-Semitic, un-American and terrorist. The US and Israel responded by cutting off all funds to the new government. Democracy is permitted only if it produces the results Bush and Israel want.
Israelis never practice terror. Only those who are in Israel's way are terrorists.
Another enemy of the Jewish state is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a militia of Shi'ite Muslims created in 1982 when Israel first invaded Lebanon. During this invasion the great moral Jewish state arranged for the murder of refugees in refugee camps. The result of Israel's atrocities was Hezbollah, which fought the Israeli Army, defeated it, and drove it out of Lebanon. Today Hezbollah not only defends southern Lebanon but also provides social services such as orphanages and medical care.
To cut to the chase, the enemies of the Jewish state are any Muslim country not ruled by an American puppet friendly to Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates have sided with Israel against their own kind, because they are dependent either on American money or on American protection from their own people. Sooner or later these totally corrupt governments that do not represent the people they rule will be overthrown. It is only a matter of time.
Indeed Bush and Israel may be hastening the process in their frantic effort to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran. Both governments have more popular support than Bush has, but the White House Moron doesn't know this. The Moron thinks Syria and Iran will be "cakewalks" like Iraq, where ten proud divisions of the US military are tied down by a few lightly armed insurgents.
If you are still a Proud American, consider that your pride is doing nothing good for Israel or for America.
On July 20 when "your" House of Representatives, following "your" US Senate, passed the resolution in support of Israel's war crimes, the most powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), quickly got out a press release proclaiming "The American people overwhelming support Israel's war on terrorism and understand that we must stand by our closest ally in this time of crisis."
The truth is that Israel created the crisis by invading a country with a pro-American government. The truth is that the American people do not support Israel's war crimes, as the CNN quick poll results make clear and as was made clear by callers into C-Span.
Despite the Israeli spin on news provided by US "reporting," a majority of Americans do not approve of Israeli atrocities against Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah is located in southern Lebanon. If Israel is targeting Hezbollah, why are Israeli bombs falling on northern Lebanon? Why are they falling on Beirut? Why are they falling on civilian airports? On schools and hospitals?
Now we arrive at the main point. When the US Senate and House of Representatives pass resolutions in support of Israeli war crimes and condemn those who resist Israeli aggression, the Senate and House confirm Osama bin Laden's propaganda that America stands with Israel against the Arab and Muslim world.
Indeed, Israel, which has one of the world's largest per capita incomes, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Many believe that much of this "aid" comes back to AIPAC, which uses it to elect "our" representatives in Congress.
This perception is no favor to Israel, whose population is declining, as the smart ones have seen the writing on the wall and have been leaving. Israel is surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims who are being turned into enemies of Israel by Israel's actions and inhumane policies.
The hope in the Muslim world has always been that the United States would intervene in behalf of compromise and make Israel realize that Israel cannot steal Palestine and turn every Palestinian into a refugee.
This has been the hope of the Arab world. This is the reason our puppets have not been overthrown. This hope is the reason America still had some prestige in the Arab world.
The House of Representatives resolution, bought and paid for by AIPAC money, is the final nail in the coffin of American prestige in the Middle East. It shows that America is, indeed, Israel's puppet, just as Osama bin Laden says, and as a majority of Muslims believe.
With hope and diplomacy dead, henceforth America and Israel have only tooth and claw. The vaunted Israeli army could not defeat a rag tag militia in southern Lebanon. The vaunted US military cannot defeat a rag tag, lightly armed insurgency drawn from a minority of the population in Iraq, insurgents, moreover, who are mainly engaged in civil war against the Shi'ite majority.
What will the US and its puppet master do? Both are too full of hubris and paranoia to admit their terrible mistakes. Israel and the US will either destroy from the air the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iran so that civilized life becomes impossible for Muslims, or the US and Israel will use nuclear weapons to intimidate Muslims into acquiescence to Israel's desires.
Muslim genocide in one form or another is the professed goal of the neoconservatives who have total control over the Bush administration. Neocon godfather Norman Podhoretz has called for World War IV (in neocon thinking WW III was the Cold War) to overthrow Islam in the Middle East, deracinate the Islamic religion and turn it into a formalized, secular ritual.
Rumsfeld's neocon Pentagon has drafted new US war doctrine that permits pre-emptive nuclear attack on non-nuclear states.
Neocon David Horowitz says that by slaughtering Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, "Israel is doing the work of the rest of the civilized world," thus equating war criminals with civilized men.
Neocon Larry Kudlow says that "Israel is doing the Lord's work" by murdering Lebanese, a claim that should give pause to Israel's Christian evangelical supporters. Where does the Lord Jesus say, "go forth and murder your neighbors so that you may steal their lands"?
The complicity of the American public in these heinous crimes will damn America for all time in history.
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This story was published on July 24, 2006.
