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April 19, 2002
UN Envoy: Jenin camp horrific beyond belief
Are the Israelis Capable of Mass Murder?
April 18, 2002 - Enough Coups For You?
Iraq - Chemical Coup?
Venezuela - Britain Calls for Restraint
Venezuela - Chavez rises from very peculiar Coup
Venezuela - Then there's the plane mystery..
U.S. Gave Nod
No, We Didn't Says White House
Humble leader who spiked price of oil Posted September, 2000
Web Watch from Resource of the Americas
Germans in Dialogue with LaRouche
Space Supremacy
April 17, 2002 - Eyewitnesses Report from Palestine
Contrary to CNN which stated on April 17, 2002 that Israel was withdrawing from the Territories, Orient Magazine reports that they are actually invading areas that have already been attacked. With Amnesty International objecting to Israel's barring of a pathologist from Jenin today, the evidence mounts that Israel is stalling for time while removing as much evidence from the scene of the crime. Eyewitness reports from Ramallah said that they had seen IDF troops putting bodies in a truck to be removed from Jenin. And oddly enough, Nando and Newsday News Services ran a story entitled "Remains of Children Killed by Nazis Buried in Austria Today". The propaganda war is getting a tad heavy-handed.
Inside ruined Jenin - death toll still uncertain
Israel Invades Further Areas
Voices from the Seige
April 16, 2002 - Eyewitnesses Report from Palestine
Jenin Camp Massacres Defy Linguistic Description
The Camp That Became a SlaughterHouse
Without Mercy: Israelis Execute Arafat's Elite Guards
Despite Court Decision, Israeli Forces Still Moving Bodies from Jenin
Good-bye, my child the terrorist.
Abu Jamal Was A Hero
Rape In Bethlehem Story pulled pending further investigation into authenticity
An Eyewitness Report from a Visitor to Jenin
Are Palestinians Human?
Medical Personel Harassed and Humiliated
Palestine Death Toll Rising
Freedom of Speech?
Freedom of the Press in Israel
Freedom of the Press in Israel
Freedom of the Press in Israel
Journalists and Canadians
Multicultural Justice
An Arab Journalist's Perspective
April 15, 2002 Analyze This!
Colin Powell is going to Damascus and Beirut. As Israel's errand boy he is to convey to those governments Sharon's warning of their vulnerability to Israeli's extreme military superiority. 'Warnings' are also issued to Lebanon and Syria to restrain Hizbollah's rocket attacks on the northern border while no effort is made to force Israel out of the territories. Virtually no mention is made of the hundreds killed in Jenin yet minor exchange of fire on the northern (and contested border) of Israel at Shebaa Farms, is now being used as justification for what, no doubt, will be continued and stepped up Israeli aggression. Using 'Hizbollah aggression' as the excuse, Israel will proceed with its plans to attack Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
Sticking closely to the prescribed format, the illusion of peace brokering is kept up for the consumption of the American public. Powell waited for several days before meeting with Arafat, giving Sharon plenty of time to continue the bloodbath on the West Bank. Arafat is forced to 'condemn terrorism' while Sharon sends Powell out on errands. Once again the onus is on the Arab. Then the propaganda barrage against the Arabs goes into overdrive.
At the moment American media drones on with lots of psychobabble about suicide bombers. No attempt is made to decipher the mentality of a society and its leaders who would hold an entire nation hostage and pummel them year after year with every means possible. No attempt is made to study the minds of those who would launch an all out assault on a trapped civilian population, kill hundreds and and then mow down survivors, attempting to gather their dead and dying, with tanks. The Palestinian penchant for self-destuction is analyzed with dead earnestness while the Israeli refusal to deal with legitimate Palestinian demands is ignored. Psychological studies of the Israeli military leaders who have denied the desperate in the West Bank and Gaza water, food and electricity, are nowhere to be found. Some terrorists are certainly the product of sophisticated psychological manipulation and mind control; others are simply the response of those who are trapped in a living hell.
Trapped in Hell: Al Aqsa Intifada Photographs
Arafat Works for the Mossad
A Note to Powell
Medical Teams are Targeted, Civilian population Under Attack
Pictures from Demonstrations Across the World: (These photos are from the beginning of the month of April, Al Manar covers demonstrations daily )
Saddam Hussein Writes Hugo Chavez
Cheney Says US will Attack Iraq for Israel's Sake
Iraq, Iran Hold Talks
French Senator Visits Iraq
He's Back!
Ari Fleischer Calls Sharon a Man of Peace!!!!!
April 12, 2002
Here's how it shapes up. The Washington Post does a detailed report on the damage done in Jenin while simultaneously running headline "President Urges Arabs To Do More For Peace." The death toll is one that the Israelis put at 150-200 while the Palestinians say it is likely to be atl east 500. Who's counting? Israeli snipers are still shooting civilians. Meanwhile the official conspiracy theory according to (Cynthia McKinney D.- Georgia), is that the Administration had previous knowledge of September 11, and failed to do anything about it. The bad guys are the Carlyle Group, owned by friends of Dubya. No mention of the now numerous Israeli linked spying scandals.
The new nuclear posture of the U.S. is worse than expected. In the words of Douglas Feith, UnderSecretary of Defence for Policy, and a man of the faith, said in a congressional testimony, that the U.S. "must plan to be surprised." Now that the foreign policy establishment, and the defense establishment, are controlled by Jews, it will be interesting to see what other surprises await the sleeping nation.
Is it the increasing horror of it all, or the boring predictability, that is more frustrating? Next week Steven Spielberg runs a five part TV series on the Holocaust as the media machine cranks up. Another branch of the public relations arm of the Zionist Lobby 'controls the damge' in this manner. Instead of just killing children outright, the IDF is instructed to shatter their little bones so that life long cripples are the result, but the death toll goes down. All in a day's spin.
America's Nuclear Posture
Our Ally, Mr. Sharon
Jewish Damage Control
Jewish Damage Control Part 2
Russians Say They Have Uncovered an American Spy Ring
And the War Goes On... Congress Rushes to the 'Rescue' of Israel
Europe Presses Demands on Israel
Withdrawal?
Lebanon Now?
After killing 150 Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp, the Israelis will be departing. The Washington Post headline screams out 13 Israelis Killed in Ambush, no mention of the Palestinians killed in Jenin. This can not be criticized as biased reporting. It's simply lying.
The official Post story focuses on reporters mistakenly targeted in the West Bank and wounded. At least two journalists have been killed in the last ten days ( according to Al Manar), several more wounded, and others harassed and kept out of cities being attacked by the IDF. Since the Intifada began in September 2000, 53 journlists have been wounded by gunfire.
Such a Deal! This is a description from an Israeli peace group on the generous offer of the israeli government to Palestinians.
A look at Israel, the superpower.
.The following is a quote from the Wall Street Journal, read the dtails in Operation Shekinah further down the page.
“Finally, we must be prepared to seize the Saudi oil fields and administer them for the greater good. Imagine if, instead of funding corruption and intolerance, those oil revenues built clinics, secular schools and sewage systems throughout the Middle East. Far from being indispensable to our security, the Saudis are a greater menace to it than any other state, including China.
Monday, the 8th of April, saw the slaughter of 100 Palestinians in Jenin, a refugee camp, by Israeli forces. Powell postures while Sharon murders. Sharon pulls back from two locales while continuing the mayhem everywhere else. Electricity and water have been cut off, ambulances attacked, civilians attempting to collect their dead threatened by tanks, the elderly used as human shields, homes ransacked by IDF soldiers. They even shoot doctors.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators maintain a steady presence in the streets of Rabat, Cairo, Aman, Beirut and Tehran. Last weekend one managed to post the Palestinian flag on top of the American embassy compound in Bahrain. Thousands of demonstrators have also held protests in England, Germany, Holland, Germany, Australia, Canada, Indonesia and Africa.
As Sharon continues his exorcism of Palestine, he "accepts" the Saudi "peace plan" but doesn't think that after so much violence peace will be possible immediately. This little Israeli game of playing for time has been going on for fifty years. Initiate the aggression, blame then terrorize the Palestinians, demand more concessions of the Arab governments who are powerless to move as the Israelis hold the Palestinians hostage, and then stall some more. Israel gains a little more, Palestinians loose a little more. If they keep beating up on the Palestinians, they might get a little more of whatever it is they want as endgame. The world goes up in expressions of outrage, the U.S. sits on it and pretends to discipline Israel. And on and on and on it goes.
NEW LINKS
Israelis using elderly as human shields
1000 Palestinian men missing in the last two weeks
Interesting interview with Sharon
Palestinian death tolls stands as no less than 1371 as of 4/07/02 (Miftah) for the Intifada. 100 more were killed in Jenin today (4/9/02). With ambulances and Red Cross blocked as they have been in the past week, the actual number may be much greater.
Pedophiles Take Heart!
Pedophiles take heart! You're just misunderstood. It seems, according to a study by the American Psychological Assoication published in 1999, that "...pedophilia can have a positive affect on a child." Well what do you know! At least it may save them from the eye strain so often associated with spending long hours on the net examining porno sites.
It's the language you know. According to the study , the use of "judgmental terms" such as "child abuse", "molestation" and "victims" must be eliminated. "Value-free" terms such as "adult-child sex" should sub for those heavy-handed, judgmental terms and rather than referring to the "severity of the abuse" one should simply refer to "the level of sexual intimacy". Whew! What a relief! Someone must rush this report right over to the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
Indeed a celebration is in order. And while we're celebrating let's not forget all those other pedophiles out there who are not Catholic priests and whom the "mainstream media" simply forgot to mention. First of all there is Hollywood which brings us the joy of sex on each of our many screens every day of the week. The Disney Company formerly associated with Snow White is now in the porn business under the tender ministrations of Michael Eisner, and a very good business it is too, estimated at being worth at least a billion annually. Disney hosts such ventures supportive of value free adult-child sex as Miramax TV, producer of The Crying Game, Priest, and Kids, movies full of kiddies priests and sex, you know. .... Yessiree Rose Red is the career gal in the family now.
Oh and do not let's forget guru world, where the kundalini is more than risen under the billowing robes of so many spiritual teachers of America's young. Fucking the devotees is is, after all, just one more path to enlightenment.
And we would be remiss not to mention our glorious leaders on the Hill and in The White House, Bill, of course, not Dubya, who could never be accused of so unChristian an act as having sex with a child though his wife might be.
And now a word for the other species. Here, too, the news is good. Peter Singer, a professor at Princeton's Center for Human Values is letting it be known that sex with animals is fine so long as it does not hurt the animal. I guess one is to assume that it is simply a private matter between consenting species. I did not ascertain, however, if the consent from the animal is required to be in written or verbal form. One does have to be so careful these days legally.
Mr. Singer tells us that the only reason we have this taboo is because of the "Judeo-Christian tradition". Now that the taboo has been lifted, Mr. Singer might want to get on the lecture circuit promoting this "new frontier in intimacy".
PETA, or the People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is on board for inter-species intermingling surprisingly enough. Although my understanding is that previously they had been opposed to eating animals.
Doesn't it seem that pedophiles, child rapists and child pornographers are just misunderstood souls in need of a lawsuit. Certainly Monsignor Dillard might want to consider filing a hate crime suit under the proposed Hate Crimes Legislation against the Washington Post for their insensitive portrayal of his chosen lifestyle and the depiction of it as anything out of the ordinary.
Partners in Petrol
Who'da thunk it. Yuppies and rednecks on the same side of the political street frantically waving the flag together. And what do they have in common? Gold, black gold and the guzzling of it. Downtown D.C. has in addition to endless lines of SUVs inhabited by one soccer mom and one soccer kid, a scattering of good ole boys all drunked up and driving around in pick up trucks with giant-sized American flags. The SUVs tend to sport the more understated American flag decal. These people ain't earning $150,000 a year for nothing.
Last night was African-American night in Hollywood with the Best Actor And Best Actress Award going to black actors, that community too is carefully folded into the greater American patriotic pie. Outcasts include non-yuppie Euro-Americans ( formerly referred to as white folks), libertarian anti-warriors, non-Zionists Christians ( which excludes most of the talkin' in tongues and writin' big checks Evangelical crowd ), and well, what do you know, the Catholic Church. Think the pedophilia preoccupation of the Washington Post might just have to do with the church's stance on Israeli brutalization of the Palestinians?
One, two, three. What are we fighting for?
Don"t know, don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam.
Back then, even the "poor bloody infantry" figured out that the reasons offered to the public for whatever the latest military outreach program was had precious little to do with the real reason. Not so today.
In today's identity group society, you're nobody till you find a Brand Name. Hi! I'm an African-American lesbian activist. Hi I'm an Hispanic-American libertarian advocate. Hi! I'm a greying crone of the Eagle Totem and I have built my life on a path of wisdom and insight. And so on and so forth. You get the drift. Simple monikers such as "Jewish liberal" and " po' white trash" are way out of date. Jews can no longer be automatically identified as liberals as they seem to be sliding over to the Republican Party, too and whites, now seem to come in one of two varieties, Yuppies, or "service workers".
Halle Berry got her Oscar for "her searing role as a beautiful but damaged widow of a convict in the film "Monster's Ball" while Denzel Washington got his award "for his turn as the dirty but charismatic narcotics cop Alonzo in "Training Day". The lives depicted by the major film studios once upon a time were more heroic in stature, or at least more sympathetic in character. But all that has gone the way of Ozzie and Harriet, hopelessly unhip. Prozac nation has for two of its top role models a crooked cop and a convict's wife. Do African-American mega-stars want to portray their people as druggies and criminals? Or does Hollywood? Of course, it's part of the victimology business where everybody except for "Euro-Americans" gets to turn their gripe against the white race into big bucks but it's more than that, too. Actually it's a reversion to an old stereotype. Maybe black America should Just Say No and Stop the Madness and consider sueing the giants of Hollywood for a vicious and demeaning depiction of black American culture and society under the proposed Hate Crimes Legislation. On the other hand there's a lot more dough in drug dealing on and off the screen.
Suburban Sprawl or The Vision Thing
I had a dream. On a brilliant starlit night, thousands of SUVs were majically lifted into the skies across the homeland from where they fly across the planet bringing people everywhere The Gap, The Limited, and free Lotto tickets.
Last weekend I found myself driving around in the suburbs. I don't normally go there so it was a bit of an adventure. I discovered several things. SUVs are big for a reason-their cargo is tremendous. Americans are a big people; some of them appear to be the size of ocean liners. In the future SUVs may not even be up to the task of transporting the average suburbanite from his or her subdivision duplex to
Wendy's or
Mickey D's or
Dunkin' Donuts or
Sizzlin' Steak or
The Outback or
7/11 or
Taco Bell or
Long John Silver's or
Burger King or
Chesapeake Bagle or
Hamburger Hamlet or
Kentucky Fried Chicken or
Popeye's or
Cozzoli's or
Mrs. Field's Cookies or
Starbuck's or
Ben and Jerry's or
Baskin and Robbin's 31 Flavors or
It's Amore!.
And then what will we do?
Partners in Crime
At a dinner party several weeks ago and after several bottles of wine, a consensus was reached. It was no longer the sixties. What was it then? What decade are we in? We're in the zeros.
This week's headlines vis a vis the Middle East are ominous. Israel Plans Big Assault If Truce Talks Fail and Cheny Unlikely to Meet with Arafat Soon Palesistinian Leader has Not Done Enough to Stop Violence, Vice President Says. Truce talks will of course fail because the Israelis have the Palestinians exactly where they want them - between an Apache and an F-16. The headlines are just their way of saying Fuck You and laughing.
Next day's headlines reads Sharon Is Ready to Let Arafat Visit Beirut. Wonder who's in charge? People who hate Arafat can go ahead and do so. It won't make any difference. Arafat has been couped up in what's left of his headquarters with his hands tied behind his back while Sharon and his American chorus demand that he stop the violence. Meanwhile the Isrealis continue to gun down children in cold blood, make sport of torturing Palestinians, blow up their homes, assassinate their political leadership, starve them out. Mine may not be a subtle mind but I am getting the sneaking suspicion that Jews are not as humanitarian in their impulses as their public relations arm, commonly known as Hollywood, would have us believe.
I'm deep into the copy of a Washington Post story entitled As Truce Talks Continue, Israel Prepares for Battle. The poor pitiful Israelis left to fend for themselves with Apache helicopters and tanks, F-16s, gunships and if all else fails, neutron bombs are preparing for the noble mission of "comprehensive military confrontation" with those crazed Palestininans armed as they are with rocks, and let's not forget, homemade bombs and cans of gas strapped to their backs. Battle? Pulverizing Palestine is more like it.
Same article, further down. "When Israeli force made their first incursion, there was an international outcry, including harsh criticism from Secretary of State Colin I. Powell. Over time, however, the incursions became routine."
They became as routine as the last fifty year destruction of Palestine, in name, in fact, in day by day destruction that no one has the courage or honesty to challenge. Deeper still. "On January 21, for instance, Sharon said Israel would adopt "totally different tactics" if the Palestinians fired homemade rockets into Israeli territory, which they did five days later." Incursions have become routine as has everything else Israel does as it continues to grind the Palestinians out of existence. But back on the homefront we've got Benetton and SuperSunday and gurus galore and, if all else fails, Prozac.
Americans have a vested interest in pretending to themselves that what is going in the Middle East can be dignified by using the term "war". Otherwise they would have to wake up and admit that a group of Zionazis control their country and they are too afraid to challenge them. Too afraid because they will be ostracized socially as anti-semites, evidently the last punishable crime in America. Too afraid because the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, can hunt them out and destroy their career, armed as they are with a $40 million annual budget, same as the CIA. Too afraid to challenge them because the JDL, the Jewish Defense League, might just corner them after a demostration and beat them to a pulp with a lead pipe. Too afraid to challenge them because after being bloodied by the JDL you find that your case has been mysteriously dropped by the FBI ( this actually happened to someone).
So for Holy Week let's just close our eyes and pray that it all goes away so we don't have to deal with it cause we know we won't.
The Left - Love It or Leave It
The Left. God you just have to love the left. Mention the war on terrorism and they say oil. Discuss Middle East politics and they say oil. Talk about 9/11 and they say oil. Ask - paper or plastic? - and they say oil. Say Israel and they say poor, hapless victim of American imperalism.
So who benefits from the war on terrorism?
Israel reverses its public relations disaster vis a vis their treatment of the Palestinians. As a matter of fact there was a highly financed and organized campaign underway to do so.
Israel gets 50 F-16s before 9/11 and 50 more after 9/11.
Israel gets the go ahead to target Hizbollah and Hamas with the U.S. "including" them in its lists of terrorist organizations.

Israel once again beats the drum against Iraq.
Israel acts as the go between the U.S. and India, who as a "victim of terrorism" signs up for the war.
Israel is also the diplomatic envoy to Caucasian states and also the beneficiary of oil being pumped westward and exiting via Turkey, a key Israeli and U.S. ally. And Israel is planning to go into the oil biz itself.
Israel actually made out on the pullout from Lebanon.
And Israel gets to use kids in the Occupied Territories for target practice without so much as peep despite a spying scandal on which the mainstream press has been mute.
So what did Saudi Arabia get? Threatened. ( Notice how they are on board, too, now. )
And how did Osama fare? Dead or dying.
And bad boy Cheney of the oil industry? "Cheney Unlikely to Meet with Arafat Soon" says the Washington Post as Israel prepares for the next slaughter. Cheney and the government he represents wanted, way back at the begining of this presidency, to do business with Iran. He will do so only on conditions set by Israel.
Nuff said? Not for some . Unocal is now doing business in a country with which they had already signed contracts before the "War on Terrorism" and which now has to be rebuilt. Plus the natives weren't all that pleased to be bombed. Only more evidence of the utter depravity of the Muslims. Seems it might have been simpler to sign the contract and go to dinner.
So who's got the really good contract? Chevron does in a consortium made up of them, some Euro Incs and Gazprom, the big Russian giant which couldn't afford to pump its own oil. OIl started flowing from the Caucasus westward the day the bombing of Aghanistan began. Who sat on the board of Chevron before signing up with the Bush Gang? Condo girl does, i.e. Ms. Condoleeza Rice, who just happens to be a protegee of the former Secretary of State, Ms. Albright.
And Chevron is part of that family of oil giants spawned by the Rockefeller dynasty, who got their start way back in the 19th centrury with a little financial aid from the Rothschild dynasty of Old Europe. Hey, so its probably all a coincidence.
And guess who's trying the Enron scandal in the Senate? Joe Lieberman that's who.
A little payback for fudging the results, Dubya. Shouldna oughter dun it. But then you never were too smart, were ya now?
So who's responsible for 9/11? I'm putting my money on Mickey the Mouse and his employers. The mouse that roars.
Year of the Retard
I'm not referring to the one in the White House, but about the Hollywood view of the viewing public. This year's film crop was singular in its fixation on the criminal, the corrupt, the defective, the deluded and the diseased. Our role models are dwindling in stature and our self-perception is being downsized.
Besides the lovely widow of a convict, and a corrupt narcotics cop this year celebrated the mental defective and hopelessly deluded. "I am Sam" - told the heart warming story of retard Dad and High-Q daughter who are deeply bonded, and how the awful establishment is trying to ruin their love.
Then there's this year's Spielberg supersoap entitled appropriately enough "Artificial Intelligence". The theme is a Spielberg favorite, poor little boy lost in a hostile world, innocence undone. It's a victim story but with a twist. The victimizers are the humans, the victim a robot. We are the unsupportably cruel who can be saved only be technology. It's a slap in the face at the human race; for all his schmaltzy kiddie shows Spielberg is no lover of humanity. There are those who wanted to ascribe all sorts of quasi-mystical messages to the movie. Frankly it gave me the creeps. In addition to the usual heavy-handed manipulation of emotion that is such a staple of Spielberg movies, the message itself is both bleak and contemptuous.
The year finished out with Brit import, "Iris", which detailed in oh so painful detail the slow descent of Iris Murdoch into the blank night of Alzheimer's.
The best of the lot was "A Beautiful Mind" about seriously szhizophrenic super scientist, John Nash's struggle with the figments of his imagination. This film, though much lauded and fairly so, fails history in a subtle way. Lots of those scientists working on the bomb and other highly classified material did indeed work for the Pentagon as spies, or at least in work so highly classified as to make them virtual prisoners of the military establishment. Lots disappeared under suspicious circumstances. And I'll bet a lot went nuts for reasons not of their own making.
Little Frodo didn't fare so well. Only the hi tech effects scored with Mr. Oscar. Little Frodo, who was strong when the tide had turned against him; little Frodo who could stand alone and take a stance; little Frodo of the old heroic mold and the furry feet is quite out of step with today's sensibility. More and more the message is - you're flawed but it can be fixed with the proper meds, you're a victim but mostly of your own delusions. But hey it's Hollywood and its the Zeros and there's nothing that can't be fixed with the right meds. So shut up will ya, and pass the Prozac.
Sharon, Sharoni
Interesting interview
So feeling high on success, Sharon accidently spilled the beans and blurted out in the Knesset in a heated exchange with Peres.
..."everytime we do something you tell me the Americans will do this and do that . I want to tell you something very clearly, don't worry about the American pressure on israel, we, the Jewish people, control America and the Americans know it."
But do they?
Le't take a look at the Cabinet of President George W. Bush, Jr.
The following is a list of the Israeli and pro-Israeli Jewish advisors to Dubya.
1) Colin Powell - Secretary of State: speaks Yiddish, has one Jewish ancestor, is a personal pal of Sharon's and wants to work to "re-energize the sanctions on Iraq."
2) Richard Perle - Foreign Policy Advisor chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, once busted for passing high-security documents to the Israeli Embassy.
3) Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Defense Secretary, all round hawk, close ties to Israeli military
4) Robert Satloff - U.S. National Security Advisor, former Ex. Dir. of Israeli hawkish Near East Institute.
5.) Dov Zekheim - Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller at the Pentagon, reportedly holds Israeli citizenship
6.) Douglas Feith - Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon, pal of Perle's, associated with the Zionist Organization of America.
7.) Elliot Abrams - National Security Council Advisor, previously Assistant Secretary of State during the Reagan days and the contra wars, indicted during Iran-contral trial.
8.) Marc Grossman - Under Secretry of State for Political Affairs, retained from Clinton Admin.
9.) Richard Haas - Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at large.
10.) Henry Kissinger - one of many Pentagon advisors. Formerly of Watergate crimes, Southeast Asian mass murders, Chile dictatorship, amd most recently served as Serbian dictator Milosevic's advisor.
11.) James Schlesinger - Sits on Pentagon Defense Policy Board, pro-Israeli extremist, advocates bombing Iraq.
12.) Robert Zoellick - U.S. Trade Representative, ditto as above
13.) Mel Sembler - president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Former National Finance Chairman of the Republican Committee.
14.) Ari Fleischer - White House Spokesman, reportedly holds Israeli citizenship.
15.) Joshua Bolten - Bush's Chief Policy Director.
16.) Steve Goldsmith - Senior Advisor to the President, serves as liason for Office for Faith-based and Community Initiatives.
17.) Adam Goldman - Special Liason to the Jewish Community.
18.) Joseph Gildenhorn - Bush Campaign's Special Liason to the Jewish Community.
19.) Christopher Gersten - Former Dirctor of the Republican Jewish Coalition, husband of Labor Secretary, Linda Chavez.
20.) Daniel Saul Goldin - Head of NASA, retained from Clinton Admin.
During the Clinton years 7 of 11 top National Security Council positions were held by Jews. I don't have the current count.
Then of course, there's the House and the Senate. Not so much Jewish by composition but pro-Israeli by the vast majority. Fully 70% of both Houses actively request the President for pro-Israeli policy decisions. A mere handful of the inmates who voted against Israel have been able to retain their seats. See Washington Report on the Middle East for details.
AIPAC, the American Israel Political Action Committee, and 15 other pro-Israeli lobbies have a combined budget of over $30 mllion a year. It is an umbrella organization of lots and lots of little groups innocuous sounding names like the Beaver Dam Contruction Association of Peoria, etc. AIPAC is considered by Fortune to be the second largest lobby on the Hill. See Washington Report on the Middle East.
Zionists and anti-Zionists
Some Jews are getting worried. Given the web, there is an outside chance the dazed American public might snap out of it. Public relations campaigns are in full swing to control the damage. A few Jews are now taking the radical stance that no more money should go to Israel unless it pulls out of the territories. And a few more Jews are admitting that Zionism might not have been such a good idea. "Zionism isn't good for Jews", one leftist told me. Not to mention the Arabs.
The spin of the emerging anti-Zionist Jew seems to boil down to the poor long-suffering Jews had Zionism foisted on them by those nasty white guys who all the while were intent on framing the eternal innocents. What is it with these people?
I quote from one such apologia.
..."by acepting the preposterous anti-semitic charicterizations of Jews as "in control of the world," Israel's Jewish supremacists fail to see that the extent to which American Jews are represented in the United States government is the extent to which they have been assimilated into a generic American whiteness, and how much their Jewishness, hot or cold, has been integrated into Americaness. American Jews who serve in government are no more pro-Israel than their Christian counterparts, and when they happen to be more pro-Israel, this is more a function of believing that support for Israel is in America's best interests."
Or put simply: Whiteness is badness and in order to become American the poor Jews were forced by their evil Christian Zionists allies to become supremacist and racist. Historic facts indicate otherwise. Zionism is the product of Theodor Herzel, a Jew and the Balfour Declaration of the British government giving Jews a "homeland" in Palestine was arranged by Rothchild banking magnate, Baron Edmund Du Rothschild. Arranged is misleading. In fact, he demanded the place in Palestine in payment for debt owed him by the then collapsed Ottoman Empire, which had been taken over by the Brits.
It takes a lot of chutzpah to dismiss any question of this much control over the reins of power as some kind of anti-semitic plot to blame the Jews.
It Just Isn't FAIR
FAIR is the acronym of a media watch group in New York who do a lot of reporting on the "corporate media". FAIR stands for fairness and accuracy in reporting.
It does seem odd that they don't note that the extreme pro-Israel bias may be due to the fact that the U.S. is 80% Jewish owned. See Radio Islam for detailed reports.
Interestingly enough so is the British press.
The Washington Post brings us in over the fold, bold print headlines each and every suicide bombing
Blast Devastates Passover Feast at Israeli Hotel
while leaving the out fact that 150 Palestinians have been killed in what are called Israeli incursions into Palestinian territory in the last two weeks. In one week in March, 200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in Israeli incursions on refugee camps, and towns. "Incursions", a word that has all the descriptive power of the word picnic, include tank assaults, helicopter gunships and missiles launched into refugee camps. They include entering homes and killing the inhabitants, blowing up homes, gunning down children in the streets. They include blowing up police headquarters, the assassinations ( here the American press uses the word 'targeted killing' ) of 67 Palestinian political leaders in the current Intifada. It icludes that fact that over 30,000 Palestinians have been injured since this Intifada began and that 4 times as many Palestinains have been killed as Israelis. It includes the destruction of 50,000 olives trees during this Intifada. This is the last source of income for the Palestinans a third of of whom are now forced to survive on less than the equivalent of $2.00 a day. It includes channeling 85% of the water resources in Palestine to Israelis while diving the remaining 15% among the Palestinians, a much larger population. See the Council for the National Interest for details.
And yet, this week's headline on Newsweek reads "The Future of Israel How Will It Survive?"
The U.S. spent the last 6 months bombing a country with 100,000 amputees and several million refugees facing starvation and yet Newsweek says "The Future of Israel How Will It Survive?"
In the month of Decmber 15,000 Iraqis died of forced starvation due to sanctions imposed by our pro-Zionist government ( See Orient Magazine for details at
and the Newsweek cover reads "The Future of Israel How Will It Survive?"
From March 19 -23, 2002 Israel flew 23 bombing raids over Lebanon. Between May, 2000 and December, 2001 there were 3321 Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace. See Arabic media for details. and yet Newsweek headlines blare out the same ole' bleet "The Future of Israel How Will It Survive?"
Crawling Through Hyperspace
People here are moving at such at at a pace they have to pay someone else to brush their teeth. Due to the general state of agitation, I'll beat a lot of them haven't notice the appearance of jackbooted young Marines in the Metro, placed there to protect us from terrorists no doubt. I wonder if they miss the sound of F-16s flying overhead for the first six months after 9/11. If so, they still have the comforting sound of Dubya's helicopters plying its way back and forth from Camp David. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Maybe he can't find the White House? And to think of the people who can eavesdrop of my conversation: the CIA, the ADL, the KGB, MI6, the next door neighbors, and everybody out there in cyberspace. I sho must be impotant!
Deep in the Heart of Congo
And unlike Washington, D.C., in Africa there are no Twinkies, no Frito-Lay, no Cheese Doodles. Toilet bowls don't sing and dance their way into your heart on TV commericals not because there are no TVs, whose numbers are growing, but because there aren't so many toilets, whose numbers seem to have stagnated. Maybe there's no point in installing toilets because there isn't enough water to flush down them. A third of the population don't have access to clean and potable water. Right in the middle of this continent is the country known by us now as the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's third largest exporer of Diamonds.
Now in the immediate aftermath of the big event, The Washington Post was pushing the idea that the Taliban had gotten control of the world's diamond supply, which explained their massive amounts of dough, with which they were able to bring the world's only superpower to its knees. Seems this little detail was left out of those "reports". In April of 2001, President Kabila canceled his contract with an Israeli company, International Diamond Industries, because they had paid only $3 million on an agreed $20 million for a flow of diamonds worth $600 million. See the following for details.
So maybe Mr. Kabila figured out he could do a little better.
Headlines Washington Post, March 30, 2002 read:
Israel Raids Arafat's Headquarters
and then just above the fold:
U.S. Officials Mostly Silent
and in smaller print:
Powell Repeats Condemnation of Palestinian Violence
Mostly silent, No Shit Sherlock. The Administration is full of people so comprised they don't dare open their mouths. But another headline assures us that Sharon Says Aim Is Not to Kill. So why the guns? Powell, the offical good guy of the "Good cop Bad Cop game being perpetuated, is mouthing condemnations of Palestinian violence under pictures of Israeli tanks and lots of fireworks provided by the IDF.
And then there's the conspiracy stuff.
The Israeli Lobby got to work right away to squelch any information critical or even informative in regard to the Zionist Lobby. See
The Machine Behind Sharon: a Mountain of Moles
Who's Who in Mega
The Israeli spying story that mysteriously disappeared from the "mainstream media". See for details and regular updates.
and also Spy Story Gets Buried
Much of the evidence used to prove 9/11 was the work of "Arab terrorists" was questionable, some even laughable. Still the story was pushed relentlessly by the mainstream media. No questions asked. The offical conspiracy story points to Bush and Osama but goes no further. It's a complicated if messy affair. This is an immensely detailed story that has been unraveled by numerous researchers and analysts who continue to dig beneath the surface and ask questions and unearth unsettling information.
The Power of Suggestion
A Site for Sore Eyes
The Pentagon, Capitol Hill and The White House are Restricted Airspace
Electronic Hijack!
Operation Shekhinah
There were no hijackers, another view
AND STILL, WHY IS IT WE ARE NEVER PRESENTED WITH A REAL PICTURE OF ISRAEL'S UNTOLD AGGRESSION!
Israelis using elderly as human shields
1000 Palestinian men missing in the last two weeks
Killing an unarmed soldier ...From Khilafah
Israeli Heaven from Joe Vialls
The anti-semitism thing
Is in fact, a false issue. Whenever any self-identified group, however it identifies itself, be it on a racial, cultural, religious or political basis, promotes an agenda that affects oither members of the community, it is a matter of legitimate inquiry. No one has a right to control the conversation. In the final analysis, Jews do themselves and their community a disservice by continuing to adopt the stance that they are, by virture of their past suffering, immune from legitimate criticism.