Another day, another slaughter. That's the latest news from the Middle East in a nutshell.

Over the weekend, Israel stepped up its attacks on Lebanon, killing who knows how many innocent people. Of course, the Zionists running Israel claim that they're battling terrorists and after George W. Bush popularized the infamous "pre-emptive strike", no one in the international community has the cajones to stand up tell Israel point-blank to back down. Besides, everyone knows that the US arrives loaded for bear at any and all UN gatherings and shoots down any ideas that Israel doesn't like; it's already happened over, and over, and over again.

But just who are these "evil terrorists" that Israel is pre-emptively attacking?

12 Lebanese killed in convoy attack

AP
Sat Jul 15, 2006

BEIRUT, Lebanon - At least 12 Lebanese villagers, including women and children, were killed Saturday in what appeared to be an Israeli airstrike on a convoy of vehicles fleeing a village near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, a witness said.

The convoy was leaving the border village of Marwaheen, when it was attacked. An Associated Press photgrapher said he counted 12 bodies in two cars that were destroyed by the attack shortly after midday.

Several hours earlier, Israeli forces across the border told villagers by loudspeaker to leave the area or else the village would be destroyed. They did not give a reason for the ultimatum.

The convoy of several vehicles was hit near the border fence less than half a mile from the village.

The residents said they had first gone to a U.N. peacekeepers position manned by Ghanian forces to take refuge but they were turned down. There was no immediate confirmation from U.N. peacekeepers, who have a force in southern Lebanon.

And here's an AP photo of the aftermath of the convoy attack:

(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Note the dead adult lying to the left of the wreckage. Also note the dead child lying in the foreground. It seems Hizbollah starts them out young these days!

"But wait!" you cry, "Israel wouldn't have to retaliate if those Evil Terrorists weren't constantly attacking them!"

From the Reuters article Israel Kills 32 in Air Strikes:

The Israeli army said it had struck about 150 targets in Lebanon so far, fewer than a dozen of them linked directly to Hizbollah. Most have hit civilian installations.

Israel's leadership obviously isn't trying to shut down Hizbollah; they are trying to start a war.

And where are the Israeli people of conscience in all of this? Why, they're conveniently distracted by a sex scandal involving their president that has pushed news of the brewing Middle East war onto the back pages! There's another important aspect to the situation: Remember Hamas, that Evil Terrorist Organization that is so diabolical? You know, the one that has launched so many "suicide attacks" on Israel? In September 2004, Kurt Nimmo wrote:

Isn't it curious that right smack in the middle of an investigation of Israel spying on its best "friend," Hamas pulls off back-to-back suicide bombings - after a lull of nearly six months - in Beersheba? Hamas declares the bombing was revenge for Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi. Rantissi was assassinated on April 17 and Yassin on March 22.

Is there a reason Hamas waited so long to take revenge? Of course there is. Hamas is essentially an Israeli contrivance. It's used for effect when politically expedient.

Israel "aided Hamas directly - the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO," Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies, told the UPI's Richard Sale in 2002. Hamas is a descendant of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic organization long ago penetrated by the CIA. "There is a long historic alliance between the CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood," writes Peter Goodgame. "The entire Bin Laden-CIA created 'mujahideen' network came from the Muslim Brotherhood." As we now know, Prince Turki of Saudi intelligence, in cahoots with William Casey of the CIA and Pakistan's ISI, sent bin Laden to Afghanistan and bankrolled the Services Center (Makhtab al-Khidmat) of the Jordanian Palestinian Abdullah Azzam, in the offices of the World Muslim League and Muslim Brotherhood in Peshawar (see Rashid, Taliban, p.131). After Azzam was assassinated, Makhtab al-Khidmat became al-Qaeda, although bin Laden did not call his organization such.

It should be obvious by now that the CIA and Mossad manufactured a virulent strain of Islamic terrorism for their own purposes.

They're called false flag operations; you know, like 9/11.

At this point, you certainly have the option of labeling me an anti-Semite in a vain effort to ignore everything above. But just for a minute, carefully consider the implications of doing so.

The term "anti-Semitism" is generally used to shut up and shut down anyone who criticises Israel. The latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Collegiate Thesaurus apparently includes a definition of anti-Semitism that reads, "opposition to Zionism: sympathy with opponents of the state of Israel".

Huh?!

Let's think about this for a minute. I can criticise George W. Bush and the American government all I want. Now, George seems to be - or at least pretends to be - a fundamentalist Christian. But if I call Georgie's policies murderous and fascist, I won't be branded "anti-Christian". So why are so many people immediately shut down when allegations of anti-Semitism are flung their way?

Opposing Fascist Zionism is not the same as opposing Judaism, just as opposing the Neocon Administration isn't the same as opposing Christianity - or America itself. Much of the world knows that Bush is a lunatic, but they don't hate Americans or other Christians. How do I know this? Because instead of believing everything I read in the newspapers, I actually TALK to people from around the world and ask them questions! Many Jews are against the policies of Israel's Zionist leadership in the same way that many Americans are against Bush. Why is it that in the case of any other country, people can separate the warped ideology of a nation's leaders from the ideology of that nation's people? Why CAN'T they do the same thing with Israel?

The short and obvious explanation is fear. Zionism appears to have an iron grip on much of the world - or at least on the secrets of the world's leaders. How else could so many world leaders be so well-controlled? Politics in much of the world heavily involve self-promotion and backstabbing. If world leaders are afraid of berating Israel's leaders for their current war on the rest of the Middle East, then there is probably a very good reason WHY.

There is, however, a bigger problem with the whole "anti-Semitic" schtick. The danger is that any group of people will only take so much. They will only allow themselves to be walked all over until they reach a breaking point. (Remember the American and French Revolutions? The Magna Carta?) What happens when the charges of anti-Semitism become stale? What happens if the US alters course on its unquestioning support of Israel? Better yet, what happens if the US becomes incapable of supporting Israel due to war, natural disasters, or other internal problems? Imagine the anger and frustration that will be applied full force against Israel if their current war on the Middle East continues. And don't fool yourself into thinking that it will just be a simple regime change. If the people and leaders of this world cannot now make the distinction between a government and its people, why would that change if the tables are turned on Israel? Furthermore, "I didn't know" didn't excuse Germans after WWII ended, and it won't be an acceptable excuse for ordinary Israelis - or Americans - in the future. If you truly believe that you live in a democracy, then it is your duty to know - and work for peaceful change if necessary .

What is most shocking to me is that so few people have entertained this notion of a turning of the tables. Jews are arguably one of the most persecuted peoples in history. Since the same types of forces that have attempted to engineer their demise are still around today in one form or another, then surely the current conflict in the Middle East will not be good for either Muslims or Jews.

So you see, no one can logically call me or anyone else an anti-Semite for opposing the policies of Israel's Zionist leadership, because I don't want to see any Jews or any Muslims or anyone else suffer or die for the petty, greedy interests of a handful of psychopathic leaders.

Do you?