Today
is the 39th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 242. This
resolution was passed following the war in June 1967 in which Israel invaded
its Arab neighbors after claiming it had been attacked. This excuse never
seems to fail. It was also the war in which the Israelis, fearing that the US government would become aware that Israeli had in fact provoked the war, attacked and destroyed the
US communications ship the Liberty, killing 34 US Navy personnel.
During
the war, the Israelis captured the Sinai peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the
West Bank, and the Golan Heights. The Sinai was returned to Egypt after
the peace accords of the late seventies. The West Bank and Gaza Strip
remain under Israeli domination and occupation. Israel "annexed"
the Golan Heights in 1981 and has steadily increased settlements there.
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
November
22, 1967
The Security
Council,
Expressing
its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East,
Emphasizing
the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need
to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area
can live in security,
Emphasizing
further that all Member States in their acceptance of the Charter
of the United Nations have undertaken a commitment to act in accordance
with Article 2 of the Charter,
Affirms
that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment
of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the
application of both the following principles:
(i) Withdrawal
of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
(ii) Termination
of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement
of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence
of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure
and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
Affirms
further the necessity
(a) For
guaranteeing freedom of navigation through international waterways in
the area;
(b) For
achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem;
(c) For
guaranteeing the territorial inviolability and political independence
of every State in the area, through measures including the establishment
of demilitarized zones;
Requests
the Secretary General to designate a Special Representative to proceed
to the Middle East to establish and maintain contacts with the States
concerned in order to promote agreement and assist efforts to achieve
a peaceful and accepted settlement in accordance with the provisions and
principles in this resolution;
Requests
the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on the progress
of the efforts of the Special Representative as soon as possible.
Adopted
unanimously at the 1382nd meeting.
A pdf
file of the original document from the UN. Israel has always refused
to implement this resolution, although it is the first to scream when
one of its Arab neighbors doesn't abide by the UN. It can do this because
it is so consistently supported by the US.
Things
have only gotten worse in the intervening years. Israel has not only refused to
give up the West Bank, it has adopted policies to drive the Palestinians out for good: the apartheid wall, mass murder and brutal harassment are the daily
lot of those Palestinian civilians who dare to remain in their own land.
Perhaps we should not be surprised, but it is curious that two of the seminal events of this era
happened on November 22, that is, on 11/22.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations found
in 1979 that JFK's death was likely due to a conspiracy. A far cry from
the Warren Commission whitewash. Now the debunkers are coming out to put
that finding into question. We shouldn't be surprised. Kennedy's assassination
is a key moment in the unfolding of US history. This was the moment when
the military-industrial complex made certain that they would retain control.
And they needed the complicity of the US population to do it.
How?
By
having them buy the lie. Eighty percent of the US do not believe Oswald
acted alone, but what have they done about it?
Of
course, with all the theories, counter theories, facts and counter facts
surrounding this event, many of which were put into place for the purpose
of confusing the population and covering the tracks of those responsible,
this event is, indeed, a "lesson in ambiguity." But our conclusions
about this do not necessarily agree with those of the professor in the following article:
JFK
killing: a lesson in ambiguity
REUTERS
NOVEMBER 21, 2003
DALLAS: The
shots rang out in Dallas 40 years ago, and the students' research papers
on assassination conspiracy theories were due on the desk of Southern
Methodist University professor Tom Stone earlier this week.
Stone has
been teaching a course for 10 years on the John F Kennedy presidential
assassination at SMU, a university in Dallas located a few miles north
of where Kennedy was gunned down on November 22, 1963.
The course
called "On the Trail of the Assassin(s)" considers the assassination
as a work of critical reading, teaching wide-eyed college youths in the
English department that there is no absolute truth, but a whole lot of
ways to navigate through contradiction.
"If
I went into class the first day and said, 'This is really a course on
critical reading and critical thinking,' the students would probably run
for the door," Stone said.
Stone, who
sports a full beard and a voice big enough to fill a classroom even when
he speaks in hushed tones, describes himself as a child of the 1960s.
He said he
started the course because he wanted to teach students some of his views
on the assassination, but over the years realised the history of JFK's
fateful day in Dallas was an exceptional platform to teach students that
there were numerous ways to interpret a text.
The class
is possibly the only college course on the Kennedy assassination that
is a part of an English literature curriculum.
"Students
begin to read more sceptically and more critically, which is a basic tool
for an English class," Stone said. In the Kennedy case, for every
fact there is a counter fact. The evidence is internally contradictory.
They never reach certainty and the comfort of a clear-cut right answer."
[...] Teacher
Stone subscribes to the theory of Oswald as a single gunman, who was probably
encouraged or influenced by an outside force. He said after the course
that the students are usually evenly divided between those who see Oswald
acting alone as the gunman and those who see a conspiracy of some sorts
behind the assassination.
"The
thing about the Kennedy case is because there are no definite answers,
people read their own concerns into it," Stone said. After the course,
students should have picked up an important lesson on education.
"You
are going to know more and understand less."
Comment:
"Knowing more and understanding less" is certainly a stage one
goes through. It is important to learn to set aside preconceptions, to
look only at the data at hand. But this raises the question of how far
you need to go to find new data. Ambiguity is necessary for one's own
progress as an obstacle to work against, that is, learning to change one's
perspective, moving in and out of a situation or event, to see longer
term patterns.
The
Kennedy assassination, when viewed from "up close", is ambiguous.
As Prof. Stone says above, "For every fact there is a counter fact."
But when viewed within the context of the development of the US in the
20th century, the ambiguity dissolves like the stripping away of a thousand
veils. This is why one needs to suspend judgment. One cannot make a decision
about the Kennedy assassination alone, isolated from the rest.
But
when multiple events are viewed, such as the assassinations of JFK,
his brother Robert, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, the interest of
the National Security State in the phenomenon of UFOs, mind control
programs, Operation Paperclip which brought over former Nazis to work
in the US, the establishment of the network of former Nazis and collaborators
in the "Stay-behind"
network to carry out covert activities for the dark forces within the
US, and the events of 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan
and Iraq among others, the consistent sense of "something is very
wrong with this picture" is best explained by the hypothesis of a
long-term conspiracy on the part of very powerful people in positions
of power. When this history is viewed in the context of the last four
thousand years of human history, the hypothesis of a long-term conspiracy
against the best interests of the whole of humanity becomes the best explanation.
But
there will remain those who argue over the "facts":
Kennedy's
assassin acted alone: Expert
AP[ THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 20, 2003 11:27:20 AM ]
SOMERVILLE,
Massachsetts: A new analysis of a tape recording made 40 years ago by
a Dallas police officer, may cast further doubt on the theory that President
John F Kennedy's assassin did not act alone.
For decades,
conspiracy theorists -- and some scientists -- have held that a sound
on the tape is a gunshot from the grassy knoll fired by someone other
than Lee Harvey Oswald. But forensic acoustics expert, Bob Berkovitz,
analysed the recording and found it is extremely unlikely the sound was
gunfire.
"The
theory that the noise represents a grassy knoll gunshot is not supported
by the computer-based analysis," said Berkovitz, chairman of Sensimetrics
Corp, which specialises in research on speech and hearing.
[...] The
House Select Committee on Assassinations, after hearing reports from acoustics
experts, who said there was a high probability that the tape contained
four gunshot sounds -- rather than the three Oswald is believed to have
fired -- found in 1979 that the assassination was probably the result
of a conspiracy.
But a special
panel of the National Academy of Sciences, led by a physicist from Harvard,
who would later win the Nobel Prize, disputed the evidence of a fourth
shot in 1982.
[...] G Robert
Blakey, former chief counsel of the House committee and now a law professor
at Notre Dame, said he was curious about Berkovitz's analysis, but he
stood by the House investigation. "Did Oswald have help? I think
there's a high probability that there was a shot from the grassy knoll,"
he said.
[...] Berkovitz,
who worked on the project for nine months, also said he used a computer
program to calculate whether sounds on the tape represented echoes of
the grassy knoll shot bouncing around Dealey Plaza. He said his analysis
found a very high probability that the sounds were not echoes, a finding
diametrically opposed to the findings that had swayed the House committee.
Noting that
previous studies were carried out more than two decades ago, Berkovitz
said, "I think it may well be that having some better tools at my
disposal caused me to have different results."
James Barger,
one of the scientists, who consulted for the House committee, said he
stood by his research.
He said he
was confident the sound was recorded at the time of the assassination,
and noted that three of the sounds found in the tape in his research were
spaced exactly the way the three shots were in Abraham Zapruder's film
of the shooting.
Comment:
We are fond of the expression "the devil is in the details."
But what are the details? That this recording of a shot has been "proven"
to be something else? Or the likelihood that this type of technology is
being used by the alphabet soup agencies to create phoney evidence? Or
that the people who are behind this conspiracy will stop at nothing to
promote the "lone nut" theory?
The
person who does not wish to question his firm belief that the US government
is the leader of the "free world", is the "bastion of democracy,"
etc, will decide the "detail" is that Berkovitz "proved"
the "gunshot" was something else. Those who remain unsettled
by the discrepancies in this, and who take a look at the larger picture,
will come away with a different conclusion.
The
role of television in forming false memories, in brainwashing the US population
and in creating a populace where critical thinking is replaced by the
need for the next, rapid-fire fix of a news "experience" (waiting
for Michael Jackson's plane to arrive, anyone?), cannot be overemphasized.
And once more we are taken back to the day of Kennedy's assassination...
The
day television came of age
VINAY MENON
In many ways,
the death of John F. Kennedy gave birth to television.
Sure, the
medium was around long before Nov. 22, 1963. But on that surreal day,
as shots rang out in Dallas and confusion engulfed a nation, television
was forced to awkwardly mature.
As the 40th
anniversary approaches, dozens of specials, documentaries and retrospectives
will air on U.S. networks, each attempting to bring context and insight
to one of the most iconic moments of the 20th century.
Now, four
decades after the assassination, 80 per cent of Americans subscribe to
some version of conspiracy; Lee Harvey Oswald, they believe, was not the
lone gunman. [...]
Comment:
When you consider the importance of TV in dumbing down the population,
this article is saying more than the author realizes...
However,
consider for a moment that 80% of the US population believes there was
a conspiracy. That is 4 out of every 5 people! And yet, what has changed?
what have any of these individuals DONE about it? Did it cause them to
look clearly at the events of 9/11 and question the Bush Reich's official
story? Or does it help them to understand the recent bombings in Turkey?
The
coverup continues - Major media complicit in the continuing coverup of
the Kennedy assassination
by voxfux
Forty years
ago, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the same ultra right wing elements
in the United States who rule today. When these extremists assassinated
Kennedy they seized a moment in history and radically transformed America
into a wasteland of lost opportunities, forever killing the hopes that
this country once had to be a decent nation. And America has never been
able to recover from those stolen opportunities by the extremist right
wing. America is now spiraling deeper and deeper into the abyss of fascism.
Complicit
in this plot to rob America of it's rightful future was the CIA under
Allen Dulles and the FBI under J. Edger Hoover.
Today the
conspiracy to coverup the true facts surrounding the right wing's assassination
of Kennedy continues with a massive coordinated effort by the CIA controlled
major media to obliterate the facts surrounding the conspiracy to kill
Kennedy and reinforce the widely dismissed and disbelieved lie that Oswald
acted alone.
The 40th
anniversary of Kennedy's assassination has become once again a field day
for the right wing extremists who control the media to churn out lie after
lie about how Oswald acted alone. With bogus 3D reenactments designed
to fool the eye and boggle the mind.
It is a chilling
reality today that there is such divide between what is really real and
what the official media backed presentation of that reality is. Nearly
the entire major media is nothing more than a huge brainwashing machine
churning out disinformation carefully scripted by the puppet-masters of
the New World Order. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX are all under the complete
control of the New World Order industrialists. Nearly all "news"
on these channels are lies.
Soon America
will descend into a military dictatorship and any resemblance to great
nation it once was will be lost forever.
LBJ
aides say JFK documentary a smear
Film alleges
Johnson had role in JFK assassination
Thursday,
November 20, 2003
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A television documentary claiming Lyndon
B. Johnson helped plot the Kennedy assassination was condemned as an absurd
smear by Johnson's family and former staff members.
A History
Channel film that aired Monday alleges that then-Vice President Johnson
and members of his staff were responsible for President Kennedy's 1963
killing, said LBJ Foundation Chairman Tom Johnson, no relation to the
former president.
"I do
not know of a greater injustice to the reputation of a former president
-- especially to be on The History Channel," Tom Johnson, who worked
in the Johnson White House, said in an interview Tuesday.
He and Jack
Valenti, another former Johnson staff member and current president of
the Motion Picture Association of America, issued a joint statement on
behalf of the Johnson family and others.
"Sadly,
President Johnson and the staff members who are wrongly smeared by the
conspiracy theorists are no longer alive to defend themselves," the
statement said. "In televising this production, The History Channel
has distorted history beyond recognition."
It was the
second recent TV project about a former president to draw criticism. CBS
yanked its November miniseries "The Reagans" after supporters
of former President Reagan said it distorted his legacy while he suffers
Alzheimer's disease.
The latest
program aired as part of an umbrella series titled "The Men Who Killed
Kennedy," a package of documentaries about various conspiracy theories
regarding Kennedy's death, said channel spokeswoman Lynn Gardner.
The films
in "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" series are from producer Nigel
Turner and have aired before on cable TV, channel spokeswoman Gardner
said. Monday's film, titled "The Guilty Men," was based in part
on the book "Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K."
by Barr McClellan, she said.
"The
History Channel does not say that any of these theories are correct nor
does not in any way say that the theory in this program is correct,"
the channel said in a statement. "We are, however, presenting a point
of view that has been meticulously researched.
"By
presenting different viewpoints we enable our viewers to decide to agree
or disagree with them and to arrive at their own conclusions," the
channel said.
'Garbage,
ugliness'
Lyndon Johnson became president upon Kennedy's death.
Kennedy was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The Warren Commission
concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin, but claims of more
extensive plots continue to fascinate the public.
"I'm
puzzled, bewildered, that a distinguished enterprise like the History
Channel would put on the air such garbage, such ugliness," Valenti
said in an interview. "It makes one sick."
Another former
LBJ aide, journalist Bill Moyers, hadn't seen the program but called its
premise "absurd." Liz Carpenter, who was press secretary to
Lady Bird Johnson, called the program "outrageous."
Attorneys
were being consulted but it was unknown if any legal action could be taken,
said Tom Johnson, also a former president and CEO of CNN.
The documentary
was "exceptionally upsetting" to Johnson's widow, who recently
suffered a stroke, and daughters Luci and Lynda, Tom Johnson said. President
Johnson died in 1973.
The family
did not try to block the program's broadcast as in the case of organized
Republican efforts against CBS' "The Reagans," Tom Johnson said.
The Reagan drama was shifted to cable channel Showtime and is showing
November 30.
"We
left the decision on editorial content and accuracy up to the History
Channel," Tom Johnson said.
LBJ
was Secretly Jewish
Genealogical
and historical evidence strongly suggests that the 36th US President and
his wife were secretly Jewish. This is highly significant when one considers
that President Johnson joined America and Israel at the hip, a policy
that has now been in place for nearly 40 years, and a policy which most
of the world does not understand or endorse.
Comment:
See here
for more.
Nixon: Warren report was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated
March, 2002
By Kevin Anderson
BBC News
Richard
Nixon left the White House in disgrace as the only president in US
history to resign, and with the release of 500 hours of taped conversations
covering the time of the Watergate break-in, researchers hope to find
new clues to how much the president knew of the "third-rate burglary".
500 hours of tape have been released
The tapes are of the first six months of his second term of office, covering
not only the Watergate break-in but also his historic trip to China and
the continuing war on Vietnam.
Congress
had once battled the president for release of the tapes, and now for the
first time researchers and historians can record them to review them for
new insights into the past.
But some
questions will go unanswered as gaps remain on the tapes - gaps in key
conversations that might have revealed how much Nixon knew about the break-in.
Hardball
politics
Nixon had
the Secret Service install recording equipment in the White House, and
the 1,000 tapes represent the first six months of 1972 as he turned his
attention to winning re-election.
His political
career had been a mixture of triumph and disappointment. After serving
in Congress, he served as President Dwight Eisenhower's vice president.
He narrowly
lost the 1960 presidential election to John Kennedy, and two years later,
he lost the election for governor of California.
Nixon did
not want to lose again.
He was a
fierce political competitor. When running for Congress in 1946, he printed
his opponent's voting record on pink paper to suggest that he had Communist
sympathies.
And as Nixon
considered his re-election bid in 1972, he was looking for ways to beat
his opponents.
In May of
1972, Arthur Bremer attempted to assassinate White House hopeful George
Wallace.
The tapes
reveal that Nixon wanted to pin the blame on supporters of Democrats George
McGovern and Edward Kennedy, whom he might face in the November elections.
"Just
say he (the shooter) was a supporter of McGovern and Kennedy," he
said to HR "Bob" Haldeman, his chief of staff, and Charles Colson,
then special counsel to the president.
"Now,
just put that out!" Nixon said, his voice rising for emphasis. "Just
say you have it on unmistakable evidence."
Kennedy's
assassination
In the same
conversation, Nixon gave new fodder for conspiracy theorists who question
whether Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter involved in the assassination
of President John Kennedy.
Referring
to the report by the Warren Commission, "it was the greatest hoax
that has ever been perpetuated," Nixon said. He did not elaborate
why he questioned the report.
The tapes
also record a conversation between President Nixon and former Treasury
Secretary John Connally who was in the car with President Kennedy when
he was killed.
It contains
graphic details of the shooting. [...]
JFK
Jr. was hot on trail of JFK's killers
From the
Nov. 18 edition of GLOBE
JFK JR'S
MISSION TO FIND DAD'S KILLERS
The disturbing
details he learned about that deadly day in Dallas
JFK JR. spent
his adult life on an astounding secret mission that he shared with only
a few of his closest confidants - mulling over classified documents in
a determined bid to unmask exactly who was behind his father's assassination
40 years ago.
And now, GLOBE can exclusively reveal the shocking secrets uncovered by
the gutsy Camelot heir . . .
It was JFK
Jr.'s belief following his 20-year investigation that the guilty parties
were 10 to 15 . . . military generals and disgruntled CIA operatives who
were angry at his father's plan to keep America out of the growing Vietnam
conflict.
This clandestine
group, stung by the U.S. military failure at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba,
wanted to crank up the American war machine and win in Vietnam at all
costs . . . and JFK stood in their way.
[JFK, Jr.]
burned the midnight oil to uncover the tiniest clue, starting at age 18,
say close friends. . . .
"He
refused point blank to believe the official version that Lee Harvey Oswald
was the lone shooter," says the friend. He came to his conclusion
after watching the famous Zapruder footage frame by frame . . . and reviewing
autopsy reports and forensic evidence on Oswald's gun.
He doggedly
sifted through papers that few other people cpuld get their hands on,
documents at the JFK Library in Boston and top secret files that his close
friends in Washington, D.C., obtained for him. . . .
Says the
source, one of JFK Jr.'s closest friends for more than a decade before
his fatal airplane crash July 16, 1999: "He would never have published
his findings - he was doing it just for himself." . . .
JFK Jr.'s
personal investigation took him to Dallas, where he visited the assassination
site at Dealy Plaza while he was in law school in 1988. Wearing a baseball
cap pulled low to hide his face. . .
In 1997,
JFK Jr. made his way to Cuba, where he interviewed Fidel Castro for his
George magazine. The Cuban dictator, too, wanted to clear the air.
"John
told me Castro looked him straight in the eye and told him, 'It is important
to me that you know I had nothing to do with your father's assassination,'"
says the source. "John said he nodded and smiled because he knew
Castro wasn't involved." ...
A friend
at the Russian Consulate in New York allowed JFK Jr. to view KGB files
on the assassination and Oswald, who lived in Russia for a while. Again,
he knew the Russians were not involved in the case.
In the end,
JFK Jr.'s conclusion echoed that of Oliver Stone: Certain generals and
CIA honchos set up Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy and there were four
other shooters, disguised as hobos....
"John
was driven - there's no other word for it - to find out the truth,"
the source tells GLOBE. "He spent time, energy and money, and he
pulled a lot of strings to go places and get his hands on crucial evidence.
"He
vowed to find the identities of the guilty parties before he died but,
ironically, not long after John told me he had just about wrapped up his
investigation, he was killed in the crash."...
Comment:
LibertyThink was kind enough to include the full text of the article here.
Sherman Skolnick makes some interesting assertions in his article Rockefeller
in the White House? regarding the assassination of
JFK, Jr.:
A Friday
after July 9, 1999, was when the Bush Crime Family benefitted from the
airplane sabotage killing John F. Kennedy, Jr.(July 16, 1999). Kennedy
was supposed to have kept it secret, that he was planning to announce
August 1, 1999, that approaching the age similar to his late father,
he was going to run for President. JFK Jr. made a mistake to inform
some in the Gore campaign camp. [Using later a false item, Newsweek
Magazine blunted this by stating that JFK Jr. was planning to run
for U.S. Senator from New York.]
Some perceived
Kennedy Jr. as scandal-free, charming, and likely to pull a big successful
Presidential vote in 2000 [if he survived]. [More details in our four-part
series on the web, "What Happened to America's Golden Boy?"]
THE
LINCOLN-KENNEDY COINCIDENCES
Fast-forward
40 years: Zapruder's effects on pop culture are still felt 4 decades after
JFK's murder
GEOFF PEVERE
ARTEFACTS
DALLAS, TEXAS-What
if?
Forty years
to the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the event still
compels one question more forcefully than any other.
Let's suppose,
for example, Abraham Zapruder hadn't been convinced by a persistent coworker
to leave work, go home and get his movie camera that day.
[...] The
notoriously contentious conclusion of the Warren Commission, that the
president was killed by a solitary gunman, acting alone, named Lee Harvey
Oswald, would never have been cast into such enduring doubt without the
questions still raised by the Zapruder film: If Oswald fired the shot
that caused the fatal head wound from the rear, why does the president
jerk backwards?
[...] While
some images provided what seemed to be the most compelling contradiction
of the Warren Commission's findings, other images made iconic by the event
pressed the opposite speculation. Was the shot of Oswald in his backyard
- with a rifle, pistol and subversive political tract - a fake?
And if it was manipulated, couldn't all images be acts of trickery? Simultaneously
in the assassination's aftermath, seeing undermined believing and believing
contradicted seeing.
If the bullet
entered from behind, why does the impact seem to explode like an exit
wound?
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