ZGram - 12/29/2001 - "Israel Stabs America In Back - Sells AWACS To Red China"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

December 29, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Bob Djurdjevic is the President of Truth in Media -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/  THE most heavily visited website during the
NATO -Balkan War.  As I remember it, at the height of that war his website
received as many as 11 million hits in one month!

Bob is a Serbian-born, American political commentator and computer genius
who has traveled the world many times.  Because of my own server problems,
I had lost touch with Bob for a while - when I received the article below,
I was very glad to see that he is still blasting away!

 Here is a Truth in Media Original titled "Israel Stabs America In Back -
Sells AWACS To Red China" dated 12-28-2001

[START]

 WASHINGTON - William Safire, a New York Times columnist, is not exactly
known for his "red-white-and-blue" patriotic Americanism. He is much more
notorious for rarely passing up an opportunity to point out that many of
the world's "statesmen" are only a phone away when Safire calls.

              But his Dec. 23 OpEd column, "Israel's Shame," comes as close
to being patriotic as any of his pieces we have seen over the years. Even
if he restates in it his self-importance again ("Prime Minister Ehud Barak
has been ducking me on this" - see http://www.nytimes.com ).

              Anyway, what Safire said was hardly extraordinary. It only
comes across as such in a dumbed-down America, scared witless of, and
robbed blind by, the New World Order's stooges. Only in such states "of
universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" (Orwell). Only
in our (un)free press does it sound like a "big deal" when a "liberal"
media columnist calls a spade a spade.

 Safire claimed, for example, that it was wrong for Israel to sell its
"advanced AWACS battle-management system called the Phalcon" to Red China
(for about $250 million, according to a Nov. 11 New York Times story). And
that it was shameful for Israel to roll out the red carpet for the "Butcher
of Beijing," Li Peng, the man responsible for the Tiananmen Square June
1989 massacre.

 Of course, it was wrong. And shameful. Especially considering the more
than one hundred billion dollars which the U.S. taxpayers have sent to
Israel, a country smaller than the state of New Jersey. The latest U.S.
budget, for example, which was approved in November following a lengthy
battle between Bill Clinton and Congress, earmarked more than $4 billion
for Israel, according to a Nov. 21 Ha'aretz report. Israel will receive
$1.92 billion in military aid from us, $1.2 billion for implementing the
Wye accord, and $900,000 in civilian aid.

 Compare the $1.2 billion payoff Israel is to get "for implementing the Wye
accord" with the rewards the Bosnian Serbs, for example, received for
implementing the Dayton accord. They got foreign governor-dictators, and
free air transportation to United Nations' Tribunal jail at the Hague. The
lucky ones, that is; the Serbs who didn't get shot in the back by the NATO
"peacekeepers," such as Simo Drljaca (see "International Justice Progresses
from Kidnapping to Murder" ).

 All told, 26 percent of all U.S. foreign aid will go to Israel, the
Ha'aretz reported, the highest amount for any country. Which means that
almost 10 percent of the Israeli government revenues comes from the
American taxpayers.

 But that aspect of Israel's betrayal - biting the hand that feeds it - has
somehow escaped Safire's attention. Guess the "liberal" U.S. media can only
handle so many of the truth morsels at a time. Nor did the Times columnist
wonder why we are still paying all this money to Israel more than 10 years
after the Cold War has ended, and Israel's role as "our" ace against the
Soviet influence in the Middle East had ceased.

 In short, for Israel to stab us in the back after all that aid it had
received from America was indeed a reprehensible act. Unfortunately, its
betrayal is only exceeded by what the Clinton and Bush administrations
themselves have done in appeasing the Red Chinese (see "Who Lost China?").


 Financial issues aside, Safire, to his credit, does not mince words on the
Israel's shame. Only he does it for the sake of the Taiwanese and Israeli
Jews, not for our sake American taxpayers or soldiers who may suffer the
consequences of Israel's AWACS sale to China:

 "If the freedom of an island with 22 million souls (Taiwan) is of no
concern to Israel, the world will care even less about 6 million Jews
getting pushed into the sea. Israeli survival has one dependable guarantor,
and the powerful U.S.-Israel alliance is nothing without its moral
dimension."

 Actually, the "6 million Jews" to which Safire refers above (i.e., an
approximation of Israel's population), is an exaggeration. According to the
CIA 1999 Factbook, about 80% of Israel's 5.4 million citizens (not "6
million"!) are actually Jewish. And only 21% of the Israeli Jews were born
in Israel. But, what's a million here, a million there when someone of
Safire's stature is trying to make a point.

 Safire was right, however, to argue, echoing the Pentagon's concerns, that
Israel's military cooperation with China "flies directly in the face of
United States security interests. When China last threatened Taiwan,
President Clinton was forced to put two U.S. aircraft carriers into the
strait. When that happens again, American forces will be directly
threatened by Chinese air, naval and missile forces emboldened by Israel's
Phalcon battle management."

 Which is why Americans who no longer wish to be the doormats and
bankrollers of the criminal, anti-Christian, New World Order should "just
say no" to such travesties. And "just say yes" to candidates, such as Pat
Buchanan, who want to help us to win our country back. Presidents like that
may see to it that ALL war criminals, including the NWO leaders, get free
transportation - to our own, not United Nations', jails. And that any
American "allies" who act against the U.S. interests are punished, rather
than rewarded, for their treachery.

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 Zundelsite Comment:

With so many changes happening - such as the panicky flight of Jews getting
the hell out of Argentina in the wake of the economy collapse - even
staunch "pro-Israeli flak" mouth pieces like Safire are realizing  which
side their bread is buttered on and are discovering some   patriotic
stirrings for the USA, a country that has been kinder and more generous and
tolerant to their native-born Jews than any other country in the world.

That someone like Safire would take a few pot shots at Israel is remarkable
criticism from quarters - criticism we haven't seen all that often before!

Stand by!  There's surely more to come!

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Thought for the Day:

"Neo-conservatives are just rabbis without yarmulkes."

(Michael Hoffman II)