Did you know that in the past 8 weeks, 200 Palestinans,
most of them unarmed civilians and many of them children,
have been mercilesly gunned-down by the forces of the
state of Israel? Are you aware that almost every day
at least one Palestinian civilian is murdered in cold
blood by the state of Israel? Did you know that the
US government whole-heartedly supports and finances
this systematic slaughter? Did you know that the 1,300
Lebanese civilians that were murdered in Israel's turkey
shoot in Lebanon last month would still be alive today
if it were not for the financial and military assistance
that the US government gives to Israel?
Is it not utterly incredible to listen to George Bush
tell the world about how his country is spreading "freedom
and democracy" around the world and realise that most
American citizens actually believe him, while their
tax money -the sweat of their brows - is being used
to murder innocent people in the Middle East. Let me
be clear, these are not 'terrorists', there are NO
terrorists, these are simply people unfortunate enough
to find themselves living in a country that happens
to be of strategic political importance to the American
British and Israeli governments.
Of course, Lebanon and Palestine are but the
tip of the iceberg, I could go on about the 250,000
Iraqi civilians who were murdered by this same American
government over the past 3 years. Think about it. 1/4
of one million people, shot, bludgeoned or blown to
pieces by the Army or agents of the alleged greatest
democracy on earth. Where did it go wrong?
Suffice to say that
the scale of the crimes of the American British and
Israeli governments is directly proportional to the
level of ignorance about what is really happening of
the average British American and Israeli citizen.
In short, it is staggering, and it is no exaggeration
to say that if the average citizen
knew what is really happening, they could quite possibly
die of shock. It is the big lie therefore, the massive
gulf between words and actions,
that allows our leaders to keep their crimes hidden
from public view. It is not that their crimes are actually
hidden of course, they are on view for all to see,
but when Bush or Blair or Olmert give orders to bomb
or attack civilians they are careful to declare the
action as being part of the war on terror or the fight
to preserve freedom and democracy, and in doing so
they create a certain cognitive dissonance in the minds
of the average person who is faced with a choice. He
must decide weather to use his brain and think for
himself or to simply have faith and trust in his leaders.
As such, it comes down to a choice between the easy
and the hard, the frightening and the comfortable.
There really is no choice. It is facilitated self-imposed
delusion at its finest.
Personally, I like to think that this state of delusion
in which most people find themselves is not really
sustainable, that at some stage the gulf between words
and deeds will become so huge that only the clinically
dead can afford to not see it. Perhaps this
is simply wishful thinking on my part however, and
perhaps history will show that 99% of the population
went to their graves still thinking that their own
deaths at the hands of their own government was to
promote "freedom and democracy".
Certainly at this point in time, the most likely candidate
for any potential future wake-up call for humanity
seems to be the Middle East. Israel is currently chomping
at the bit to start the wholesale slaughter of Arabs,
and America seems ready to help with its 130,000 troops
and 10 permanent military bases in Iraq, all slowly
turning their guns towards Iran. At the same time we
see the
massive concerted effort over the past 10 years to
portray all Arabs as terrorists to citizens of Western
nations. Could we really ask for a clearer signal of
where this is going? Let me put it more plainly.
Your
government has more or less successfully convinced
you that all Arab people are terrorists or at least
terrorist sympathisers, and to do so has gone to the
extent of actually attacking and killing your fellow
citizens and blaming it on Arabs to reinforce this
'reality'. At the same time it has stationed many thousands
of troops in the Middle East region and is actively
attempting to provoke a 'war'. Now tell me, where do
think this is going to end up? Let me remind you that
there have already been 2 world wars in the past 100
years, and the signs are multitude that another is
around the corner. In the first world war 8 million
people died. In the second world war 60 million people
died. How many do you think might die in a third? 100,
200 500 million? Why not a billion? It's not like they
haven't developed wonderful weapons that can easily
do the job.
The Middle East then, appears to be the future global
ground zero of choice, but again, how did we get here?
In March 2005, ex Israeli PM Sharon visited Bush
at his Texas ranch where Bush repeated demands
that Israel should halt all illegal settlement activity
in the Palestinian West Bank territory. Within a day
of returning to Israel, Sharon publicly ignored Bush's
demands and ordered that the construction of new West
Bank settlements should go ahead. The silence that
issued from Washington was deafening, highlighting
for all the world to see (apart from the victims of
the Israeli-dominated and censored US mainstream press)
that, regardless of what they say, Bush and Sharon
are on the same page in terms of the future of a Palestinian
state - there will be none.
The last serious effort that were made towards peace
between Palestinians and Israelis was back in October
1993 when Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo peace
accords and famously shook hands on the White House
lawn, with Clinton pictured as peacemaker.
Rabin had gone further than any other Israeli PM in
extending a just peace offering to the Palestinians,
and throughout the encounter in Washington, the frequently
anguished look on his face spoke of a man who realised
that he would be lucky to get out of this alive. Peace,
you see, does not go down very well with the bloodthirsty
"Zionists" that dictate Israeli policy towards
the Arabs that live in their 'god-given' homeland.
After Olso, Arafat returned triumphantly to Palestinian
territory and was later elected president of the Palestinian
National Authority. Right on cue however, bomb attacks
by "Palestinian militants" against Israelis
heightened tensions between the two sides. As regards
the bizarre way in which 'Palestinian militants'
always seem to launch attacks against Israeli targets
at moments where a peace appears within reach, consider
this
report from last year out of Baghdad:
“A few days ago, an American manned check point
confiscated the driver license of a driver and told
him to report to an American military camp near Baghdad
airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve
his license. The next day, the driver did visit the
camp and he was allowed in the camp with his car.
He was admitted to a room for an interrogation that
lasted half an hour. At the end of the session, the
American interrogator told him: ‘OK, there is
nothing against you, but you do know that Iraq is
now sovereign and is in charge of its own affairs.
Hence, we have forwarded your papers and license to
al-Kadhimia police station for processing. Therefore,
go there with this clearance to reclaim your license.
At the police station, ask for Lt. Hussain Mohammed,
who is waiting for you now. Go there now quickly,
before he leaves his shift work”.
The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed
with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying
a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low
flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as
if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected
it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives
hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors.
The only feasible explanation for this incident is
that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans
and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district
of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement
and witnessing the anticipated “hideous attack
by foreign elements”.
And lest we forget, Israel's intelligence and military
have been training the Americans in Iraq on the finer
points of Urban warfare and how best to counteract
(read demonize) guerilla warfare tactics.
A little over two years after Oslo, and just
in case he had any ideas about further 'peace mongering',
Rabin was assassinated for his efforts by Israeli
intelligence in a cover up that was very similar in
essence to the murder of JFK. Barry
Chamish details the findings that prove, more
or less categorically, that the official version
of rabin's murder is a lie.
In 1996, Rabin's replacement, Binyamin Netanyahu, headed
a coalition government, which was unsurprisingly split
over the peace process and subsequently collapsed. Netanyahu
was succeeded by Ehud Barak, who was the next to visit
the White House and meet with Arafat in 2001, again
with Clinton as match maker.
Barak could afford to smile, he knew his offer to Arafat
was not something Arafat could bring home to the Palestinian
people. Read Clayton Swisher's The
Truth About Camp David : The Untold Story About the
Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process for the
full story, but in essence, the talks were doomed to
failure because of Barak's refusal to offer any substantial
concessions to Arafat in return for assurances of peace.
Of course, at the time, the Israeli-owned press informed
the American public that the exact opposite was true,
but then, there's nothing strange or unusual about that.
Unsurprisingly then, any prospect of further talks
between the Israelis and the PA receded. In the impasse,
the veteran right-winger and war criminal with a insatiable
appetite for Palestinian blood, Ariel Sharon, toured
Jerusalem's Muslim holy site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with
an entourage of 1,000 armed men on September 29, 2000
- a flagrant provocation to the Palestinians. Sharon's
belligerence paid of, provoking a second Palestinian
intifada and soon thereafter propelling him into government
in April 2001 - just what the Doctor of Death had been
hoping for. Sharon further capitalised on the results
of his provocation, using the Palestinian uprising to
justify turning his back on the 'land for peace deal'
and ordering the IDF to re-occupy the West Bank.
Not satisfied with their virtual stranglehold on the
Palestinian territories and their 2 million haggard,
impoverished and regularly murdered people, Israeli
intelligence decided the time was right to implement
their long established plan to create the conditions
that will ultimately allow them to wage all out war
on their defenseless Palestinian hostages and on the
Arabic peoples of the wider Middle East.
9/11 was the Israeli false-flag operation par excellence,
as then Israeli foreign minister Benjamin "Bibi"
Netanyahu stated
on the morning of the attacks in response to a question
from a radio interviewer about his opinion of the
atrocity:
"It’s very good.” Then correcting
himself and adding: “Well, it’s not good,
but it will generate immediate sympathy [for Israel
from Americans].”
Coincidence? Hardly.
It is clear to all those with a minimal
understanding of the history of the "Israeli-Palestinian
conflict" (a misnomer if there ever was one)
that there never has been an Israeli government that
ever planned to consent to Palestinian
statehood. How could there have been? When we consider
the glee with which Sharon, for example, ordered
the butchering of thousands of innocent Palestinian
men, women and children refugees in the Sabra
and Shatila massacres in 1983, or the utter lack
of empathy shown by Olmert to the murder of 1300
Lebanese (including hundreds of children) gives us
a clear indication of the ethos underpinning the
Zionist world view - all Arabs are less than human,
much like all other 'gentiles'. Of course, we should
not think that the Jewish people themselves will
be spared the predations of their emotionless leaders.
For the Israeli government to provoke war in the
Middle East is like starting a fire in one's own
home. All will be consumed.
Sharon
remarked that: "anyone who kills a Jew
or harms an Israeli citizen, or sends people to
kill Jews, is a marked man. Period." In doing
so, Sharon was merely stating what Jewish law has
stated for thousands of years: that the life of
a 'Gentile' is worth less than the life of a Jew
(and thatof an arab even less).
Jewish Talmudic law teaches that Jews alone are
human, special chosen, and that they must assert
their right as better than all others by force of
arms. Once this is understood, the brutality
of Israeli murders such as the death by missile
of Sheikh Yassin or the gunning down of Palestinian
children who throw rocks at the occupying IDF soldiers
or the murder of 13000 Lebanese civilians can be
understood for what it is - the enacting of the
'morality' of a group of psychopaths. Once the Jewish
teachings are understood, the hopelessness of the
Palestinian position and that of all the
people of the Middle East (not to mention the rest
of the world) can also be understood. We suggest
our readers read Israel Shahak's book, Jewish
History, Jewish Religion, especially the chapter
on The
Laws Against Non-Jews.
Here is an excerpt from that chapter:
Murder and Genocide
ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH religion, the murder of a
Jew is a capital offense and one of the three most
heinous sins (the other two being idolatry and adultery).
Jewish religious courts and secular authorities are
commanded to punish, even beyond the limits of the
ordinary administration of justice, anyone guilty
of murdering a Jew. A Jew who indirectly causes the
death of another Jew is, however, only guilty of what
talmudic law calls a sin against the 'laws of Heaven',
to be punished by God rather than by man.
When the victim is a Gentile, the position is quite
different. A Jew who murders a Gentile is guilty only
of a sin against the laws of Heaven, not punishable
by a court. To cause indirectly the death of a Gentile
is no sin at all.
Thus, one of the two most important commentators
on the Shulhan Arukh explains that when it comes to
a Gentile, 'one must not lift one's hand to harm him,
but one may harm him indirectly, for instance by removing
a ladder after he had fallen into a crevice .., there
is no prohibition here, because it was not done directly:
He points out, however, that an act leading indirectly
to a Gentile's death is forbidden if it may cause
the spread of hostility towards Jews.
A Gentile murderer who happens to be under Jewish
jurisdiction must be executed whether the victim was
Jewish or not. However, if the victim was Gentile
and the murderer converts to Judaism, he is not punished.
All this has a direct and practical relevance to
the realities of the State of Israel. Although the
state's criminal laws make no distinction between
Jew and Gentile, such distinction is certainly made
by Orthodox rabbis, who in guiding their flock follow
the Halakhah. Of special importance is the advice
they give to religious soldiers.
Since even the minimal interdiction
against murdering a Gentile outright applies only
to 'Gentiles with whom we [the Jews] are not at war',
various rabbinical commentators in the past drew the
logical conclusion that in wartime all Gentiles belonging
to a hostile population may, or even should be killed.
Since 1973 this doctrine is being publicly propagated
for the guidance of religious Israeli soldiers.
The first such official exhortation was included in
a booklet published by the Central Region Command
of the Israeli Army, whose area includes the West
Bank. In this booklet the Command's Chief Chaplain
writes:
When our forces come across civilians
during a war or in hot pursuit or in a raid, so long
as there is no certainty that those civilians are
incapable of harming our forces, then according to
the Halakhah they may and even should be killed...
Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted,
even if he makes an impression of being civilized
... In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they
are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakhah to kill
even good civilians, that is, civilians who are ostensibly
good.
This discussion of Jewish laws towards non-Jews puts
Israel's denial of food to the Palestinians, discussed
in the article above, and murder of Lebanese in a
different light. The Jews who follow Jewish law have
no moral or religious duty to help or care for the
Palestinians or Arabs and non-Jews in general. On the
contrary, because they are convinced that every Palestinian
(and ultimately gentile) is a threat to Israel and
to other Jews, their religious duty is to kill them
all.
We will be clear. We do not think that all Jews agree
with this teaching. There are many non-religious Jews
who may not even be aware of it and there are many
others who are taking a stand against such inhuman
teachings, (which the mainstream media conveniently
ignores). However, such teachings appear to us to be
an accurate description of the policies of the State
of Israel, whether or not the individuals involved are
aware of the teachings.
These teachings appear to form the foundations of
the culture within which the genocidal policies of
Zionist leaders are acceptable to a significant portion
of Israel's Jewish population. We note, moreover, that
these policies are acceptable as well to a significant
proportion of US fundamentalist Christians. We raise
the issue of US Christians because it is clear that
their attitude towards non-Christians is very similar,
and historically, Christians have treated non-Christians,
especially those who did not have white skin, as little
more than "beasts
walking on two legs" as former Israeli Prime Minister,
Menachem Begin, once called Palestinians.
What is the basis of this sense of superiority? Religion,
the supernatural ravings of an arrogant and bloodthirsty
pseudo-divinity. Unfortunately, billions of people the
world over, including Christians and Moslems, are influenced
by these psychopathic delusions, as the legitimacy of
their own beliefs rests upon the legitimacy of Jewish
beliefs.
As for the Jews, for a people with a population of
approximately 15 million world-wide, they appear to
have an inordinate influence over the future of the
planet, or at least such is true of their self-styled
leaders. The survival of under 5 million
of them, the Jewish population of Israel, could put
in danger the survival of the other 6 billion of us
alive today. It is the worst kept secret on the planet
that Israel has nuclear weapons. It would be consistent
with the Jewish law mentioned above for Israel to be
willing to destroy the rest of the world if its leaders
felt that there was a threat to Israel's continued
existence. That Israelis have admitted that this is
the worst case scenario is extremely troubling but
not surprising.
But this discussion raises the issue of the modern
bogeyman -- anti-Semitism. Is it "anti-Semitic"
to say such things about Israel? We are not discussing
Jews as a whole, and our criticisms of religion apply
to the other world religions as well. We are discussing
the State of Israel, the Zionist leaders, their
genocidal policies towards the Palestinians and Arabs
of the Middle East, and the apparent consistency between
certain Jewish teachings and that policy. We also underline
that the attitude of US evangelicals, and of much of
the history of the Christian Churches, is in accord
with these ideas even if the "chosen
people"
differ from case to case.
Defenders of Israel will label this argument as "anti-Semitic."
The manipulative tool that is monotheistic religion
and those that have wielded it against humanity for
thousands of years, appear destined to bring the world
to the brink of a truly global holocaust,
simply because they refuse to allow a wholly attainable
peace settlement between the Israeli and Palestinian
and Arabic peoples. With last year's assassination
of Arafat by Israeli intelligence, the last hope for
peace expired also. The 'peace map' is now officially
dead rather than simply being an unofficial non-starter.
The world has now entered the final phase of a despicable
plan that has been many centuries in the
making and which has as its goal the utter destruction
of hundreds of millions of people on this planet.
While awareness of this reality is difficult to bear,
it can at least help us to resolve the confusion we
may have up to now experienced when we read the headlines
that Bush has yet again called Olmert a a "Man
of Peace", or that "Israel has a right to defend
itself". Deception, insidious and all-encompassing,
is the name of the game that the controllers of this
planet are playing. If you carry within you even
the embryo of a vision of a different and better
future for humanity, please take a stand, now, and
refuse to be lied to any longer. Your children's
future will undoubtedly depend on it.
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