- Is there any criminal act that Israel can do without
being protected from criticism from the United States? If there is I haven't
seen it. And I haven't seen it from the Bush Administration or from the
Clinton Administration or from any administration before them. But when
you consider the influence of Israel's lobby and its political action committees
and the more than $41 million they've given to Congress and the White House,
is it any wonder Israel is shielded from any shame?
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- For more than 54 years the Israelis have committed acts
that no other nation would dare get away with. But even here in America,
where it is not yet illegal to publicly ask the wrong questions, any public
figure that does so is subjected to smears, intimidation, and the attempted
destruction of his career and reputation by Jewish organizations and by
the very cooperative news media.
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- A few examples of these criminal acts committed by Israel
include the treacherous attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, killing
34 American sailors and wounding another 171. There can now be no disputing
that Israel knew its identity, and that the ship was in international waters
and clearly marked as a US Naval vessel. What was most treacherous though
was not the perfidy of Israel but that of President Johnson ordering the
recall of the sixth fleet when he found out that the attackers were not
the Arabs but the Israelis. The treasonous compliance continues today as
corrupt politicians refuse to take any action against Israel and continue
their efforts in hushing-up the whole affair although there seems to be
a strong campaign by the Liberty survivors and other brave patriotic Americans
in exposing the Israelis of their criminal attack.
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- Another example of Israel's callous disregard for its
supposed "ally" America was the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks
in Lebanon in 1983, which killed over 200 US servicemen. According to former
Israeli Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky, Israeli intelligence knew of the
plan by Arab terrorists to bomb the building in plenty of time to warn
the innocent men, but cynically refused to say anything.
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- In April 1996 the Israelis attacked an U.N. refugee camp
in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children.
A U.N. investigation determined the attack was intentional and stated that
" while the possibility cannot be ruled out completely, the pattern
of impacts in the Qana area makes it unlikely that the shelling of the
United Nations compound was the result of technical and/or procedural errors."
Shortly after this report the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israel
for the attack and all nations with the exception of the U.S. voted in
favor of the resolution. In other words, intentionally slaughtering 103
civilians was not sufficient for the United States to condemn Israel. Yet,
when Hezbollah attacks Israel's illegal occupation of southern Lebanon
and results in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers the U.S. is first to
condemn this legal resistance.
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- During the past 27 months the Palestinian resistance
from the brutal and illegal Israeli occupation has resulted in more than
2000 Palestinians and 670 Israelis killed. When Israelis are killed or
injured by Palestinian suicide bombers the White House wastes not a second
to harshly condemn these brutal acts, and it does so in an understandable
manner. But when Israelis drop a one-ton bomb in the center of a Gaza City
apartment complex and kills 15 innocent Palestinians including 9 small
children the U.S. issues a diplomatic statement criticizing the attack
only as using "excessive force." Other times when Palestinian
children are slaughtered for throwing stones at tanks the United States
remains silent.
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- These are just a few of the criminal acts committed by
the Israeli government and shielded from criticism by U.S. politicians
or even reported by the controlled media.
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- Although September 11th brought the fight on terrorism
to the front burner, it seems that the United States protects Israel from
any criticism here too. An Israeli instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed
that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World
Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York
landmarks. (Ha'aretz, December 20, 2002.) Is it possible that Israel had
foreknowledge of the attack? Could this be the answer why many Israeli
employees at the World Trade Center never showed up for work that tragic
September morning? If this is the case then the fact that Israel's government
had prior knowledge of the pending attack and not warned the Americans
makes them as guilty as our enemy. Whatever the case, our government must
make a complete and thorough investigation without any threats from Jewish
and Israeli interest groups.
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- Shielding Israel from criticism and supporting the Jewish
state no matter what crimes she commits has caused the United States the
loss of respect around the world. In addition, Israel has cost American
taxpayers more than $120 billion in the past 40 years. Our one-sided unbalanced
Middle East policy has created the hatred of millions and the primary cause
of terrorism that has landed on our own soil.
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- Criticizing our government's dangerous policies and its
submissions to the Jewish lobby doesn't make anyone less patriotic or any
less of an American. George Washington said it best when he stated that
"passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils...the
illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting
the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of
the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a
passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens
the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country."
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- James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate
of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National
Security Course, National Defense University, Washington DC. He served
as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic
of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active
duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.
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