AMERICAN/ISRAELI TERROR: The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World
REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO COLLABORATED OR WERE SILENT, ALL THE PUPPETS AND PROPAGANDISTS.
ALL THOSE NOT PROTESTING THE ONGOING AMERICAN/ISRAELI TERROR AGAINST US ALL.
REMEMBER THEM: BECAUSE THE TIDE ALWAYS TURNS...
The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World
''THOSE TO WHOM EVIL IS DONE / DO EVIL IN RETURN''
By Norman Solomon - t r u t h o u t | Perspective
After getting out of Lebanon, writer June Rugh told Reuters on Tuesday: "As an American, I'm embarrassed and ashamed. My administration is letting it happen [by giving] tacit permission for Israel to destroy a country." The news service quoted another American evacuee, Andrew Muha, who had been in southern Lebanon. He said: "It's a travesty. There's a million homeless in Lebanon and the intense amount of bombing has brought an entire country to its knees."
Embarrassing. Shameful. A travesty. Those kinds of words begin to describe the alliance between the United States and Israel. Here are a few more: Government criminality. High-tech terror. Mass murder from the skies. The kind of premeditated action that the US representative in Nuremberg at the International Conference on Military Trials - Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson - was talking about on August 12, 1945, when he declared that "no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy."
THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. RIGHT NOW, IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS ALLIANCE IN THE WORLD.
Of course, Israeli officials talk about murderous crimes against civilians by Hezbollah and Hamas. And Hezbollah and Hamas officials talk about murderous crimes against civilians by Israel. Plenty of real crimes to go around. At the same time, by any measure, Israelis have done a lot more killing than dying. (If you doubt that, take a look at the web site of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem and its documentation of deadly events.)
In American media, the current mumbling about the need for "restraint" is little better than window-dressing for bomb-dropping. The prevalent dynamic is based on a chain of rarely spoken lies, however conscious or unconscious: none more important than the lie that a religion can make one life worth more than another; render a human death unimportant; elevate certain war-inflicted agonies to spiritual significance.
"Israel has overwhelming military superiority in both southern Lebanon and Gaza," the New York Times noted in mid-July. A pattern is deeply entrenched in US media and politics: the smaller-scale killers condemned, the larger-scale killers justified with endless rationales.
''THOSE TO WHOM EVIL IS DONE / DO EVIL IN RETURN''
Stripping away the righteous rhetoric, media manipulation and routine journalistic contortions, what remains in joint US-Israeli policy is the unspoken assumption that might makes right. Myths spin around as convenient. Israel ceremoniously "withdraws" from Gaza, only to come back with missiles and troops however and whenever it pleases. The West Bank also continues to be a place of subjugation and resistance. And, as W.H. Auden observed, "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."
The Israeli leaders who launched this month's state-of-the-killing-art air assault on Gaza and Lebanon had to know that many civilians would be killed, many others wounded, many more terrorized. The smug moral posturing that Israel's military does not target specific civilians is moldy political grist - and, in human terms, irrelevant to the totally predictable carnage.
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO PRETEND THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT ALSO "BLOW UP INNOCENT PEOPLE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE TACTICAL OBJECTIVES."
"There are terrorists who will blow up innocent people in order to achieve tactical objectives," President Bush said on July 13. Of course he was referring to actions by Hezbollah and Hamas. We're supposed to pretend that Israel does not also "blow up innocent people in order to achieve tactical objectives."
Israel calls itself a Jewish state, and its leadership often claims to represent the interests of Jewish people. Killers who terrorize often claim to be acting on blessed behalf of others of the faith. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus ... By now, such demagoguery ought to be transparent.
In the 40th year of Israel's unconscionable occupation of Palestinian territories, Israeli leaders have their agenda. What's ours?
IT SHOULD INCLUDE CLEARLY OPPOSING THE MOST DANGEROUS ALLIANCE IN THE WORLD.
In the United States, evading the "might makes right" core of the alliance is easy. The dodge makes dropping bombs on Lebanon and Gaza that much easier for the Israeli government.
As usual, you can hear it in the weasel-worded statements from even the better politicians on Capitol Hill.
You can read it in New York Times editorials.
Instead of saying that aggressive war by Israel "is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy," the message is that aggressive war by Israel is accepted and embraced as an instrument of policy.
MOST OF ALL, YOU CAN HEAR IT IN THE SILENCE.
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Norman Solomon's latest book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, was published in paperback this summer. For information, go to: www.normansolomon.com.
Thursday 20 July 2006 - Story at Url.: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072006K.shtml
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FPF - RELATED:
* Latest from Citizens for a Legitimate Government - Url.: http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
* AMERICAN + PERMANENT 'ISRAELI' TERROR: WARS, HOLOCAUSTS etc. - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb
* MSNBC - LIVE VOTE: DO YOU BELIEVE PRESIDENT BUSH'S ACTIONS JUSTIFY IMPEACHMENT? - Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
* JOURNALISTS ARE KILLERS TOO! - Url.: http://www.countercurrents.org/henk040803.htm
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* ANTI-SEMITISM IS WRONG: It is not a matter of race, color, religion or nationality. It's finding out - and presenting facts - about who did what, where, when and why? - ''Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mbej3
* THE EVIL EMPIRE keeps devastating hundreds of millions of lives, and we are all complicit because of our collaborating puppet governments, in the ruination of lives and exploitation of human energies. So, what is the origin? Who are the real criminals and profiteers, this murderous mafia for centuries already living in their own VATICAN OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD - THEIR OWN 'STATE WITHIN A STATE'? - WHO HOLDS THE GOLD, AND THUS THE POWER? - WHO ARE THE CULPRITS HOLOCAUSTING MANKIND? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hvtxo
* WHO IS FINANCING? - THE US PRIVATELY OWNED 'FEDERAL RESERVE' IS THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST CRIME AGAINST ALL HUMANITY EVER. - URL.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* WHO IS RUNNING AMERICA? - Url.: http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html
* US 9/11 TERROR in a CNN Poll - Question: "Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" - 'Yes' - 89% - 'NO' - 11% - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7w7c5
* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* US SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - [http://tinyurl.com/manno] - regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks: AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSISTED THE 9/11 TERRORISTS - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/m4duy
* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, KILLING AMERICANS and others to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jn5jx
* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO’S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are negatively linked to inhuman terror, coups d’état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html
* FALSE FLAG 9/11 - NO LEGAL BASE FOR NATO FIGHTING US WARS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zqzkc
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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ALL THOSE NOT PROTESTING THE ONGOING AMERICAN/ISRAELI TERROR AGAINST US ALL.
REMEMBER THEM: BECAUSE THE TIDE ALWAYS TURNS...
The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World
''THOSE TO WHOM EVIL IS DONE / DO EVIL IN RETURN''
By Norman Solomon - t r u t h o u t | Perspective
After getting out of Lebanon, writer June Rugh told Reuters on Tuesday: "As an American, I'm embarrassed and ashamed. My administration is letting it happen [by giving] tacit permission for Israel to destroy a country." The news service quoted another American evacuee, Andrew Muha, who had been in southern Lebanon. He said: "It's a travesty. There's a million homeless in Lebanon and the intense amount of bombing has brought an entire country to its knees."
Embarrassing. Shameful. A travesty. Those kinds of words begin to describe the alliance between the United States and Israel. Here are a few more: Government criminality. High-tech terror. Mass murder from the skies. The kind of premeditated action that the US representative in Nuremberg at the International Conference on Military Trials - Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson - was talking about on August 12, 1945, when he declared that "no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy."
THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. RIGHT NOW, IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS ALLIANCE IN THE WORLD.
Of course, Israeli officials talk about murderous crimes against civilians by Hezbollah and Hamas. And Hezbollah and Hamas officials talk about murderous crimes against civilians by Israel. Plenty of real crimes to go around. At the same time, by any measure, Israelis have done a lot more killing than dying. (If you doubt that, take a look at the web site of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem and its documentation of deadly events.)
In American media, the current mumbling about the need for "restraint" is little better than window-dressing for bomb-dropping. The prevalent dynamic is based on a chain of rarely spoken lies, however conscious or unconscious: none more important than the lie that a religion can make one life worth more than another; render a human death unimportant; elevate certain war-inflicted agonies to spiritual significance.
"Israel has overwhelming military superiority in both southern Lebanon and Gaza," the New York Times noted in mid-July. A pattern is deeply entrenched in US media and politics: the smaller-scale killers condemned, the larger-scale killers justified with endless rationales.
''THOSE TO WHOM EVIL IS DONE / DO EVIL IN RETURN''
Stripping away the righteous rhetoric, media manipulation and routine journalistic contortions, what remains in joint US-Israeli policy is the unspoken assumption that might makes right. Myths spin around as convenient. Israel ceremoniously "withdraws" from Gaza, only to come back with missiles and troops however and whenever it pleases. The West Bank also continues to be a place of subjugation and resistance. And, as W.H. Auden observed, "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."
The Israeli leaders who launched this month's state-of-the-killing-art air assault on Gaza and Lebanon had to know that many civilians would be killed, many others wounded, many more terrorized. The smug moral posturing that Israel's military does not target specific civilians is moldy political grist - and, in human terms, irrelevant to the totally predictable carnage.
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO PRETEND THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT ALSO "BLOW UP INNOCENT PEOPLE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE TACTICAL OBJECTIVES."
"There are terrorists who will blow up innocent people in order to achieve tactical objectives," President Bush said on July 13. Of course he was referring to actions by Hezbollah and Hamas. We're supposed to pretend that Israel does not also "blow up innocent people in order to achieve tactical objectives."
Israel calls itself a Jewish state, and its leadership often claims to represent the interests of Jewish people. Killers who terrorize often claim to be acting on blessed behalf of others of the faith. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus ... By now, such demagoguery ought to be transparent.
In the 40th year of Israel's unconscionable occupation of Palestinian territories, Israeli leaders have their agenda. What's ours?
IT SHOULD INCLUDE CLEARLY OPPOSING THE MOST DANGEROUS ALLIANCE IN THE WORLD.
In the United States, evading the "might makes right" core of the alliance is easy. The dodge makes dropping bombs on Lebanon and Gaza that much easier for the Israeli government.
As usual, you can hear it in the weasel-worded statements from even the better politicians on Capitol Hill.
You can read it in New York Times editorials.
Instead of saying that aggressive war by Israel "is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy," the message is that aggressive war by Israel is accepted and embraced as an instrument of policy.
MOST OF ALL, YOU CAN HEAR IT IN THE SILENCE.
-0-
Norman Solomon's latest book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, was published in paperback this summer. For information, go to: www.normansolomon.com.
Thursday 20 July 2006 - Story at Url.: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072006K.shtml
**************************************************************************************
FPF - RELATED:
* Latest from Citizens for a Legitimate Government - Url.: http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
* AMERICAN + PERMANENT 'ISRAELI' TERROR: WARS, HOLOCAUSTS etc. - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb
* MSNBC - LIVE VOTE: DO YOU BELIEVE PRESIDENT BUSH'S ACTIONS JUSTIFY IMPEACHMENT? - Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
* JOURNALISTS ARE KILLERS TOO! - Url.: http://www.countercurrents.org/henk040803.htm
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* ANTI-SEMITISM IS WRONG: It is not a matter of race, color, religion or nationality. It's finding out - and presenting facts - about who did what, where, when and why? - ''Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mbej3
* THE EVIL EMPIRE keeps devastating hundreds of millions of lives, and we are all complicit because of our collaborating puppet governments, in the ruination of lives and exploitation of human energies. So, what is the origin? Who are the real criminals and profiteers, this murderous mafia for centuries already living in their own VATICAN OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD - THEIR OWN 'STATE WITHIN A STATE'? - WHO HOLDS THE GOLD, AND THUS THE POWER? - WHO ARE THE CULPRITS HOLOCAUSTING MANKIND? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hvtxo
* WHO IS FINANCING? - THE US PRIVATELY OWNED 'FEDERAL RESERVE' IS THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST CRIME AGAINST ALL HUMANITY EVER. - URL.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* WHO IS RUNNING AMERICA? - Url.: http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html
* US 9/11 TERROR in a CNN Poll - Question: "Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" - 'Yes' - 89% - 'NO' - 11% - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7w7c5
* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* US SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - [http://tinyurl.com/manno] - regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks: AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSISTED THE 9/11 TERRORISTS - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/m4duy
* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, KILLING AMERICANS and others to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jn5jx
* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO’S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are negatively linked to inhuman terror, coups d’état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html
* FALSE FLAG 9/11 - NO LEGAL BASE FOR NATO FIGHTING US WARS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zqzkc
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
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