- On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act
of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded
the "Spirit of Humanity," kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11
countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel
Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies,
olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children's toys that were on
the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The "Spirit of Humanity,"
along with the kidnapped 21 persons is being towed to Israel as I write.
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- Gaza has been described as the "world's largest
concentration camp." It is home to 1.5 million Palestinians who were
driven by force of American-supplied Israeli arms out of their homes, off
their farms, and out of their villages so that Israel could steal their
land and make the Palestinian land available to Israeli settlers.
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- What we have been witnessing for 60 years is a replay
in modern times, despite the United Nations and laws strictly preventing
Israel's theft of Palestine, of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century theft
of American Indian lands by US settlers. An Israeli government spokesman
recently rebuked the President of the United States, a country, the Israeli
said, who stole all of its land from Indians, for complaining about Israel's
theft of Palestine.
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- I knew the "Spirit of Humanity" would fall
to Israeli piracy the minute I received on June 25 from an official of
an Israeli peace organization a "public advisory" that the government
of Cyprus had withheld permission for the "Spirit of Humanity"
to leave for Gaza. The US State Department had advised that "The Israeli
Foreign Ministry informed U.S. officials at the American Embassy in Tel
Aviv that Israel still considers Gaza an area of conflict and that any
boats attempting to sail to Gaza will not be permitted to reach its destination."
The "Spirit of Humanity" obtained permission to leave Cyprus
when all aboard signed a waiver absolving Cyprus of all responsibility
for the crew's safety at the hands of the Israelis.
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- As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to
be sent to Gaza, and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity
of Israel's blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind
is why did not the United States send sufficient US Navy escort to see
the "Spirit of Humanity" safely through international waters
to Gaza? We send ships against Somalian pirates, why not against Israeli
ones?
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- We all know the answer. The US talks a good "human
rights" game, but never delivers--especially if the human rights abuser
is Israel. After all, Israel owns the US Congress and President Obama.
Israel even has an Israeli citizen and former member of the Israeli Defense
Forces as the Chief-of-Staff in Obama's White House. Israel owns millions
of American "Christian Zionists" and "rapture evangelicals."
When it comes to Israel, the American government is a puppet state. It
does what it is told.
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- Macho Americans might stand tall, but not when Israel
snaps its fingers.
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- Israel, of course, will get away with a mere act of piracy.
After all, Israel has been getting away with its war crimes and violations
of international law for 60 years. If the UN tries to do anything, the
US will veto it, as the US has done for decades.
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- What will happen to the kidnapped foreign nationals?
Most likely they will be released and sent back to their respective countries.
Israel, of course, will keep the stolen "Spirit of Humanity"
to foreclose any further attempts by human rights activists to run Israel's
inhumane blockade of Gaza.
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- On the other hand, Israel might declare its captives
to be terrorists on the ground that the Gazans elected in a free election
Hamas as their government. Hamas, unlike Israel, is declared to be a terrorist
organization by the puppet American State Department in Washington. Thus
the human rights activists onboard the "Spirit of Humanity" are
aiding and abetting terrorists by delivering goods to them. The US Department
of Justice (sic) prosecutes American citizens and charities for sending
aid to Palestinians on the grounds that Palestinians, if not everyone a
terrorist, are governed by terrorists.
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- I wouldn't be surprised if a Nobel Laureate and a former
member of the US House of Representatives, along with the rest of the crew,
are handed over to the Americans for indefinite detention and for torturing
and waterboarding in the American torture facility at Bagram. I am certain
that "Homeland Security" and the US Government are desperate
to be rid of all of critics, and knocking off a Nobel Laureate and a member
of the House sets a precedent for getting rid of the rest of us.
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- Meanwhile, California, which has become a failed state,
has been denied bailout money from Washington. Israel, which has been a
failed state for 60 years, can, unlike the American state of California,
always count of Washington to deliver the money and the weapons to keep
Israel going.
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- The same week that "our" government in Washington
told the Governor of California "not one red cent," President
Barak Obama handed over $2.775 billion to Israel.
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- Online Journal (June 29) reported that the handover to
Israel of the unemployed Americans' tax dollars took place in a "tiny
Capitol room" to which members of the press were denied access. I
mean, really, who wants the media writing about US taxpayer dollars for
Israel's nuclear weapons while Americans are being kicked out of their
homes. Not that, of course, the "Christian" supporters of Israel
would mind.
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- Unlike every other recipient of US military largesse,
Israel is permitted to bypass the Pentagon and to deal directly with US
suppliers. Consequently, the Israel Lobby's influence multiplies, because
military suppliers fight for Israel in congressional committees in order
to get Israel's business. This lets Israel turn the screws on Iran. According
to Grant F. Smith writing in <http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4853.shtml>Online
Journal, Republican US Representative Mark Steven from Illinois has received
$221,000 in campaign contributions from Israel political action committees
(PACs). Therefore, it was a sure thing that he would introduce legislation
preventing the Import-Export bank from providing loan guarantees to countries
doing business with Iran.
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- Americans think that they are a superpower, but in fact
they are a stupor-power. A puppet state if truth be known.
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- There is a great deal of evidence, even in Time magazine
that Israel is a child abuser. "God's Chosen People" routinely
abuses captured Palestinian children. The Israelis also abuse Palestinian
children by shooting them down in the streets.
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- Don't take my word for it. The Geneva-based Defense for
Children International says, <http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1906664,00.html>according
to Time Magazine, that "the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian
child prisoners appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized,
suggesting complicity at all levels of the political and military chain
of command."
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- According to Time Magazine, "Often, children suffer
lasting traumas from jail. Says Saleh Nazzal from the Palestinian Ministry
of Prisoner Affairs, 'When soldiers burst into a house and drag away a
child, he loses his feeling of being protected by his family. He comes
back from prison alienated from his family, his friends. They don't like
going back to school or even leaving the house. They start wetting their
beds.' Says Mona Zaghrout, a YMCA counselor who helps kids returning from
prison: 'They come out of prison thinking and acting like they are men.
Their childhood is gone.' And they often turn to another father figure--the
armed militant groups fighting the Israeli occupation.'"
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- And so it goes. There's no money for California, or for
Americans' health care, or for the several million Americans who have lost
their homes and are homeless, because Israel needs it. Israel need the
Americans' taxpayers money to that it can create even more enemies, and,
therefore, need more American money to spend with the American armament
industries to oppress more Palestinians and to make more enemies, requiring
more American money to protect Israel from its folly and its evil.
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- And the brainwashed American public goes along year after
year.
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