- The U.S. and Israel have been torture interconnected
in the Middle East for quite a long time. Those now infamous hoods --
finally infamous because of the dramatic pictures from a U.S.-run prison
in Iraq -- have long been used by the Israelis in prisons where Palestinians
are treated far worse but the world has looked the other way for decades
now.
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- Indeed, Israeli 'training' of Americans to 'deal with
the Arabs' may well be the secret so-far untold aspect of today's 'torture
scandal' now dominating today's headlines. TortureGate now dominates Washington
and has the potential to threaten the Bush Presidency as the Monica scandal
affected Clinton's.
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- The top Pentagon civilian officials -- Paul Wolfowitz
and Douglas Feith -- both Jewish and both known for their extremely close
relationships with top officials in Israel and the Zionist movement, are
believed to have personally authorized clandestine Mossad officials to
be in Iraq working closely with U.S. military intelligence.
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- Something similar is believed to have been secretly authorized
by the head of the CIA, George Tenet. Many in Washington find it hard
to believe that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfled did not know and approve;
even if the information was not provided to the President who many believe
at the time would not have cared or understood the implications anyway.
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- As of today TortureGate is at the least further erupting
into a profound earthquake-like public relations catastrophy for the U.S.
American credibility has been shredded to pieces. The President himself
is unusually personally involved in attempting damage-control. Talk of
Donald Rumseld being forced to take the fall this time is beginning to
be heard above whispers.
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- As for the U.S. and Israeli torture connection it has
grown considerable in recent years and certainly needs to be investigated
-- but just as certainly not by the American Congress which is itself quite
complicitous despite all the loud protestations otherwise.
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- Even as far back as a decade before the first Palestinian
Intifada began in 1987, the U.S. government was already very much aware
and complicitous in, the 'systematic torture' of Palestinians by Israel.
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- In 1979 U.S. Foreign Service officers serving in the
Jerusalem Consulate -- an unofficial Embassy responsible for dealing with
the Palestinians in the 'Occupied Territories' -- did their job and provided
the political leaders in Washington detailed and conclusive information
about the ongoing torture of Palestinians. When top officials in Washington
did nothing and in fact ordered everything covered up classified State
Department cables were leaked from persons inside the State Department
and published by Mark Bruzonsky who at the time was Forum Editor of The
Middle East Magazine in London. Bruzonsky is now the Publisher of Mid-East
Realities (MiddleEast.Org).
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- In a major censorship story never publicly told, the
classified torture documents were first made available by Bruzonsky for
exclusive publication in a New York newspaper. But severe pressure from
the U.S. government and persons associated with the Israeli-Jewish lobby
forced the story to be spiked at the last minute even after the front-page
banner-headline had been set in type and personally approved by the editor
and publisher. This is the story of the once secret "Torture Cables"
as published in the April 1979 issue of The Middle East Magazine.
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