- 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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