- The old adage, "fool me once, shame on you; fool
me twice, shame on me" does not apply to Americans, who have shown
that they can be endlessly fooled.
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- Neoconservatives deceived Americans into an illegal attack
and debilitating war in Iraq. American neoconservatives are closely allied
with Israel's Likud Party. In the past, some neocons lost their security
clearances because of "mishandling" of classified information.
According to Insight magazine, "the Pentagon has banned security clearance
to Americans with relatives in Israel. Government sources and attorneys
said the Pentagon has sought and succeeded in removing security clearance
from dozens of Americans, mostly Jews, who either lived, worked, or have
relatives in Israel."
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- Despite questions of dual loyalties, neocons hold high
positions in the Bush regime. Ten years ago these architects of American
foreign and military policy spelled out how they would use deception to
achieve "important Israeli strategic objectives" in the Middle
East. First, they would focus "on removing Saddam Hussein from power
in Iraq." This would open the door for Israel to provoke attacks from
Hezbollah. The attacks would let Israel gain American sympathy and permit
Israel to seize the strategic initiative by "engaging Hezbollah, Syria,
and Iran as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon."
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- Today, this neoconservative plan is unfolding before
our eyes. Israel has used the capture of two of its soldiers in Lebanon
as an excuse for an all-out air and naval bombardment against Lebanese
civilian targets. However, a number of commentators have pointed out that
such a massive attack requires weeks if not months of preparation that
could not be done overnight in response to the capture of the soldiers.
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- Regardless, in the first two days of the Israeli military
attack on Lebanon more than a hundred civilians, including Canadians, have
been killed by Israeli bombs (gifts from U.S. taxpayers). The Beirut International
Airport has been repeatedly bombed, as have residential neighborhoods,
roads, bridges, ports, and power stations.
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- Soldiers are a legitimate military target. Civilians,
civilian neighborhoods, tourists, and international airports are not. Under
the Nuremberg standard used to sentence Nazi war criminals to death, the
Israeli government is clearly guilty of war crimes.
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- Meanwhile, the Israelis are committing identical war
crimes in Gaza. Again Israel's excuse is the capture of an Israeli soldier.
However, the distinguished Israeli professor Ran HaCohen said that the
Israeli army "had been demanding a massive attack on Gaza long before
the Israeli soldier was kidnapped."
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- By blocking UN Security Council action against Israel
for its massacre of civilians in Gaza, the Bush regime has made itself
complicit in these monstrous war crimes. Just as Germans who supported
Hitler were deemed to be complicit in his war crimes, Americans who support
Bush are complicit in Bush's war crimes.
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- Hezbollah is not the Lebanese government. It does not
rule Lebanon. Hezbollah is the militia organization founded in 1982 in
response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon. Hezbollah defeated the Israeli
army and drove out the Israeli invaders six years ago.
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- According to the BBC, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
said that the two Israeli soldiers "were captured to pressure Israel
to release the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in its jails," especially
the women and children.
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- The BBC also notes that although Hezbollah operates "from
Lebanese territory and the militant group has two ministers in the Lebanese
government, the central government is almost powerless to influence the
militant group." (Note that the BBC applies the loaded word "militant"
to Hezbollah but not to Israel.) Hezbollah, reports the BBC, "is also
very popular in Lebanon and highly respected for its political activities,
social services, and its military record against Israel."
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- The prime minister of Lebanon, who was installed with
President Bush's approval when Syria, under Bush's pressure, recently withdrew
its troops from Lebanon, has twice appealed to Bush to pressure Israel
to stop its criminal attacks. Our great moral, democratic, Christian leader
has twice rebuffed the appeal from the legal representative of the Lebanese
people. Instead, Bush is willingly going along with the 1996 neocon script.
Bush is laying the blame on Syria and Iran, exactly as the neocon script
calls for him to do.
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- When Bush demands that Syria "stop Hezbollah attacks,"
he forgets that he was the one who forced Syria out of Lebanon (to enable
Israel to attack Lebanon). If Americans were attentive, they would be ashamed
to witness "their" president acting as an Israeli propagandist.
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- Fox "News," CNN, and the rest of the Bush propaganda
ministry are echoing the lie that innocent Israel is under attack from
the "terrorist states" of Syria and Iran through their surrogate,
Hezbollah. Americans, who are sick of the Iraq occupation and want the
troops home, are being fooled again and set up for wider war in the Middle
East.
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- Evangelical "Christians" are part of the propaganda
show. Three thousand of them, under the lead of the Rev. John C. Hagee,
are heading to Washington for a "Washington/Israel summit" to
demand, needlessly, that the neocon Bush regime show "stronger support
for Israel."
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- It is difficult to see how Bush could show any stronger
support without using the U.S. military to assist Israel in its attacks,
which is, of course, what the "Christian" Rev. Hagee intends
when he declares: "There's a new Hitler in the Middle East [he doesn't
mean Bush or Olmert]. The only way he will be stopped will be by a preemptive
military strike in Iran."
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- Present at Rev. Hagee's "Washington/Israel Summit"
will be Israel's former Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, Israeli
Ambassador Daniel Ayalon, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman,
Republican Senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum, the Rev. Jerry Falwell,
and Gary Bauer.
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- The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most
powerful lobby in Washington, expressed its thanks to Rev. Hagee for demonstrating
"the depth and breadth of American support" for Israel. Recently,
AIPAC has been under investigation as a suspected nest for Israeli spies.
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- David Brog, former chief of staff for Republican Sen.
Arlen Specter, has gone to work for Rev. Hagee. Brog, who is Jewish, says
he works for Hagee's evangelical enterprise because "we're bringing
into a pro- Israel camp millions of Christians who love Israel and giving
them a political voice. Israel's enemies are our enemies, and this group
instinctively understands that." Brog goes on to say that Hagee's
evangelicals understand that they are not supposed to talk about Jesus,
only about saving Israel: "Christians who work with Jews in supporting
Israel realize how sensitive we are in talking about Jesus. They realize
it will interfere with what they are trying to do."
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- Gentle reader, is this an admission that evangelicals
have set aside Jesus for war? Do these bloody-minded evangelicals really
believe they will be wafted to Heaven for helping Israel involve the U.S.
in more war? Have evangelicals forgotten that "an eye for an eye"
is Old Testament? "Turn the other cheek" is New Testament.
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- On July 14, Reuters reported that alone among Christians,
the "Vatican condemns Israel for attacks on Lebanon."
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- Whose delusion is the greatest the evangelical
"rapture" delusion, the neocon delusion about American power,
or the Zionist delusion? The three together mean disaster for America,
Israel, and the world.
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- One of the great evangelical/Zionist/neocon myths is
that "tiny Israel" armed with 200 nuclear weapons is threatened
by Muslim Middle Eastern countries. In actual fact, Egypt and Pakistan,
which have the bulk of the Middle Eastern Muslim population, are ruled
by American puppets. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates are totally
dependent on U.S. protection and, thereby, are also under the American
thumb. Iran is Persian, not Arab, and has no common borders with Israel.
Hezbollah was created when Israel tried to seize Lebanon in 1982. Hamas
is a Palestinian response to the atrocities Palestinians have suffered
for a half century at Israel's hands.
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- Israel's land-stealing policy is the source of Middle
Eastern instability. America is hated because American money and weapons
are what enable Israel to steal Palestine from Palestinians.
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- As numerous Middle East experts have pointed out, what
is decried as "Arab terrorism against Israel" is, in fact, the
only tactic Muslims have for calling the world's attention to the plight
of the Palestinians, about which Americans are generally ignorant.
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- It is absurd for Bush to condemn Syria for not behaving
as an American puppet and for not fighting Israel's battles by taking on
Hezbollah. Syria and Iran (and Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion) are the
only Middle Eastern countries independent of American control. It is far
beyond the boundaries of reason and morality to expect these two remaining
independent countries to give up their independence in order to enable
Israel to steal Palestine and southern Lebanon.
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- It is the refusal of Syria and Iran (and Saddam Hussein's
Iraq) to stand with Israel against Palestine that has made them targets
for American attack. Neocons have total control of U.S. foreign policy
in the Bush regime, and they have morphed our strategic interests into
Israel's.
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- As the neoconservative architects of Bush's wars revealed
in 1996, their concern lies with *Israeli* strategic objectives.
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