ZGram - 8/3/2002 - "Killing Americans for Oil and Israel"
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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
August 3, 2002
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
Every once in a while, I get a blast from this one or that one
claiming that I propagate "the official party line" - that this part
or that part of the articles I send to my list sport ideas that don't
portray the simon-pure thrust of the struggle for freedom generally
and for truth in history specifically.
Let's get this straight, once and for all:
At this stage in our struggles I am not in the least concerned with
reflecting the sterling arguments of the "true Israelites", or with
admiring the intricacies of the NORAD Sherlock Holmses, or echoing
the absolutist "racialites", or singing the tunes the
"politically-neutral-at-any cost Revisionists". I for one have left
the confines of intellectual ghettoization.
My readers are mature people who will know what to believe or
disdain, accept or reject. There is no need for me to tell them what
they already know, or reinforce what they already believe. Where
real people dwell - people and potential allies we have never heard
of before but who are finding us - life is full of nuances I do my
darndest to reflect.
The America I emigrated to, decades ago, was proud, fair, genuine,
generous, always ready to help the oppressed, the downtrodden - as
it turned out, at great costs to itself. Within a few short years,
America has changed alarmingly and has become a virtual prisoner of a
radical minority agenda - with very few ever the wiser. It is my
firm belief that America has now embarked on a bitter struggle for
survival. Here is a case in point:
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Killing Americans For Oil And Israel
By Edward W. Miller
The media is full these days of accusations, recriminations,
congressional hearings and much political jazz, aimed at either
deflecting criticism from Washington's failure to warn us of
September 11th or suggestions regarding revamping our so-called
Intelligence Establishment. While the embarrassed CIA and FBI sit as
humbly as possible through endless "hearings" our bubble-head
President is erecting a Department of "National Security" which will,
he promises, bind together over 100 Federal offices with their
personnel and expertise thus guaranteeing that in the future, every
bit of intelligence information which may drift into this monolith
will receive its proper scrutiny and dispatch.
The Department will have a budget of $37.5 billion, and employ some
169,000 employees. Washington has not explained why the CIA and FBI
are excluded, but Bush will perhaps straighten this out once the two
cease their infighting.
Washington has been addressing its "terrorist threats" in much the
same manner as Tel Aviv, by focusing attention and resources on
protection and security rather than addressing the underlying causes.
Since her 1967 war of aggression, Israel experienced at her borders
and recently at home, violent responses from neighbors she invaded
and tried to subjugate: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, the West Bank
and Gaza. Here in the United States, until that memorable September
11th, we had been punished for our criminal behavior toward both the
Iraqis and Palestinians only at the periphery of our so-called field
of interest, first in Lebanon, then Africa, and Yemen.
Israel negotiated safe borders for herself with both Egypt and
Jordan, under Prime ministers less addicted to violence than Sharon.
The hate and distrust she created in Lebanon, however, made it too
expensive in terms of Jewish lives, and despite the Israeli farmers'
interest in stealing Litani River water for irrigation, she withdrew.
The Jews though, are still carting away truckloads of rich Lebanese
topsoil from border areas Israel pretends to dispute. The reluctance
to make peace with Syria has to do with the avarice of Israel's
Russian immigrant farmers (kibbutzim) who, having displaced 120,000
Syrian farming families from their rich turf in the Golan, have the
political strength in the Knesset to keep Israel from returning the
Golan. The West Bank and Gaza are targets of the Jewish Religious
Right with their dreams of Greater Israel (Eretz Israel). Their
almost daily thefts of Palestinian land by Jews from Detroit, New
York and southern California who receive cheap loans, low mortgage
rates and tax relief on their stolen property will continue so long
as American Jewry dictates to Washington.
Since the early days of Israel's fascist expansionism Washington's
tacit and often active support of the Jewish State has been costing
American lives.
During Sharon's bloody 1982 invasion of Lebanon our Ronald Reagan
killed the citizens of Beirut with shells from our USS New Jersey,
stampeding some 600,000 into the mountains east of their city. As a
punishment for this criminal act, we lost some 241 US Marines, plus
an uncounted (by Washington) number of sailors from Reagan's
Battleship, as the Lebanese retaliated, bombing our military barracks
in Lebanon as well as the French military barracks at the Beirut
National Airport. Our lack of consideration for their religion, when
our military failed to leave the Saudi Kingdom after the Gulf War as
promised, resulted in a bomb which in 1996 killed six American
soldiers bivouacked in the Saudi City of Khobar, and injuring some
400, mostly Saudis.
Washington has always been a slow learner. On May 28th, 1998,
reporter John Miller interviewed Osama Bin Laden in his mountain
headquarters in Afghanistan. In this detailed exchange available to
the world via ABC News, Osama threw down the Muslim gauntlet to
Washington, saying: " Your situation with the Muslims in Palestine is
shameful.. and ...by testimony of relief workers in Iraq, the
American-led sanctions have resulted in the death of over a million
Iraqi children. All of this was done in the name of American
interests. We believe that the biggest thieves in the world and the
terrorists are the Americans. The only ways for us to fend off these
assaults is to use similar means... It is a punishment that fits the
crime. American accuse our children in Palestine of being terrorists,
children who have no weapons and have not even reached maturity. At
the same time they (Israelis) defend a country with airplanes and
tanks."
Though Osama's words resonated with over 1.2 billion Muslims across
the world., Washington paid no heed to the message. Our embargo of
Iraq and our illegal bombing and overflights continued while Clinton
tacitly supported Israel's repression and expansionism in Palestine.
On August 7th, 1998 our embassies in both Tanzania and then, Kenya
were destroyed by bombs, killing a total of over 224 civilians
including 12 Americans. Clinton, in a knee-jerk response sent
missiles into Afghanistan, missing Ben Laden, but killing 19 young
Muslim students studying in their madrassa. Clinton's missiles then
destroyed the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant in Khartum, wiping out
African's only access to drugs for sleeping sickness, malaria and
Dengue Fever. The plant was NOT producing biological weapons.
Despite Osama's warnings plus angry protests at the UN, Washington
again displayed no interest in debating or even questioning its
policy. The US carefully-designated embargo against Iraq arranged at
the UN still forbade some 600 items Saddam's people required to
provide potable water for their children dying daily of water-born
diseases from sewage poured into their Euphrates Rive, and. with
Washington's tacit OK Israel continued its violent harassment of the
Palestinians, stealing their land. with illegal settlements. Over
2,000 Palestinian families had by this time been turned out homeless
into the streets, their houses bulldozed., often on a few moments
notice.
On the 13th of October our USS Cole, quietly moored in Yemen's port,
experienced a sudden explosion killing some 18 of its crew and
blowing a huge hole in its port side. Again, no sign that Washington
cared one iota for the lives of either its own citizens as our media
daily demonized Osama Bin Laden while our FBI sent its investigating
teams into Yemen.
Our mistreatment of Iraqis and Palestinians continued unabated soon
September 11th as New York's citizens were enjoying clear skies and a
warm autumn breeze, their famous Twin Towers suddenly exploded in a
volcano of smoke and debris while in Washington our Pentagon staff
watched in awe as a third passenger jet slammed into their concrete
fortress, killing some 200 .
With three thousand dead in Manhattan plus some 220 in Washington
there was still no move by our President, Congress or State
Department to re-examine a foreign policy that was killing more and
more Americans. Targeting Osama Bin Laden, the US now demanded
Afghanistan's Mohammed Mar, head of the Taliban, deliver Osama to a
US court. The Taliban government, however, remembering Washington's
corrupt "Star Chamber" trials afforded Noriega and then, Sheik Abdel
Omar Rahman, demurred, offering Osama instead to an International
court.
As the Bush-UNOCAL negotiations over oil-pipeline access in
Afghanistan had become frustratingly slow, our President seized on
this moment, and casting aside any more efforts at diplomacy,
declared the Taliban to be supporters of Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
Without significant Congressional debate, and with a
hastily-constructed "War Powers Act" Bush was given the go-ahead to
begin military actions against Afghanistan's Taliban and essentially,
against the Afghan people.
By late June 2002 Bush's Afghan War had degenerated into skirmishes
with invisible Al Qaeda who could strike at any moment. Though US and
British "Special Forces" had been bombing one cave after another,
some containing ammunition left over from the Soviet years, few Al
Qaeda had been found though the killing of civilians had hopefully
lessened.
Afghans naturally protect their own, so Taliban's and Al Qaeda like
their Pashtuns and Tajiks, just disappear into the Afghan crowd. The
fact that US command headquarters remains in Florida continues to
create blunders killing Afghans as well as some of our Canadian
buddies. Washington wants to forget that though the Soviets conquered
Kabul in 24 hours and controlled most Afghan cities within the
following three days, they never had a moment of peace and after nine
long years, with some 19,000 dead and the loss of 425 expensive
helicopters, they left.
As for the Mideast, Sharon's wanton killing of civilians plus his
physical destruction of West Bank cities, including the Jenin Refugee
Camp, the pathetic and demeaning imprisonment of Arafat in his
Ramallah headquarters, the mindless and unnecessary stand-off in the
Church of the Nativity by a Jewish military openly contemptuous of
the Christian World, plus the successful effort by an
Israeli-controlled media in this country to portray the
essentially-unarmed Palestinians, backed against the wall by the
world's fifth largest military, as " THE TERRORISTS," is provoking
more and more anti-Israeli and so anti-Semitic feeling across the
intelligent world, as well as anti-Sharon sentiment in Israel itself..
The ongoing campaign against Saddam Hussein, lead in this country by
such Zionist Jews as Bill Kristol, William Saffire, Jeffrey Kent,
Richard Perle and Senator Lieberman and reinforced by
presidential-hopeful Senator McCain, may sidetrack any efforts at
Mideast peace. The president of Iraq's impoverished country, despite
our media's almost daily onslaught, presents no danger to anybody.
The UN's International atomic inspection team recently gave Saddam a
clean slate and Scott Ritter, former UN Chief inspector says Saddam
is no threat. Not a single Arab neighbor approves of Bush's proposed
strike against Saddam, while our Washington Chiefs of Staff argue
strongly against it. Again, it is only Israel and our Jewish lobby
that is urging that Americans continue to die for Zionism..
Charlie Reese, once columnist for the Orlando Sentinel recently
described Bush as a ventriloquist's dummy, sitting on the lap of
Israel's Sharon. In reality our President's focus on the Mideast,
including both Iraq and the Palestinians is distorted, first, by his
abysmal ignorance of history, by his emotional bonding with a
Religious Right which supports Sharon's expansionist dreams and
finally, by the awesome power of Jewish money, best exemplified by
AIPAC with tentacles which reach into both the political and media
spheres. Just how Bush will circumnavigate these dangerous waters is
anyone's guess.
Speaking to a sold-out Berkeley audience June 20th world-famous
columnist Robert Fisk said it clearly: "The safety of America depends
on its behavior overseas."
(Source: Coastal Post Home Page
http://www.coastalpost.com/02/07/10.htm )