ZGram - 1/14/2002 - "The Paul Revere Series" - Washington Post: Media Ship of Pro-Israeli Fools

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 14, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Yet one more modern Paul Revere, ringing the bells for freedom!

This column is written by Mohamed Khodr,  an American Muslim physician and
a native from the  Middle East. Dr. Khodr has worked in Academic Medicine
and Public health with  national and international health experience. He is
a freelance writer who  often writes columns on the Palestinian cause,
Islam and on America's  Foreign Policy in the Middle East. He lives in the
Washington DC area.

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Date: 1/13/02  5:18 PM

 Washington Post: Media Ship of Pro-Israeli Fools

 by Mohamed Khodr

 One can only imagine the overwhelming reporting in our media with front
page stories, photos, editorials and countless punditry on television and
by columnists if two American Muslims were caught by the FBI while planning
to bomb the offices of the Anti-Defamation League and a prominent synagogue
in Washington DC. Given our hypersensitivity post 9/11 and our "war on
terrorism", primarily Muslim defined terrorism worldwide, such a story
would enshrine and further condemn American Muslims to Ashcroft's all out
war on civil liberties, total freezing of all American Muslim organizations
and bank assets, widespread deportation of any Muslim even guilty of jay
walking, and a possible made for TV movie.

However, given that such  terrorist bombing plots were planned not by
American Muslims but by two  Jewish Americans members of the Jewish Defense
League, its chairman Irv  Rubin and member Earl Kruger, arrested by the FBI
on December 11, 2001, our  media has been strangely silent on this
"domestic terrorism" story. Why?

For one entire month there were no follow up stories, no investigations by
the print, television, or radio media, no Ashcroft or Bush press
conferences announcing the freezing of JDL assets or assets of many
American Jewish organizations that send hundreds of millions of tax exempt
dollars to militant settlers to confiscate Palestinian land and launch
terrorist acts against them. Could it be that our government and media are
ethnically biased in their reporting on our "war on terrorism"?

 On January 10, 2002 exactly one month after the arrest of Rubin and
Kruger,  a Los Angeles federal grand jury returned a nine count indictment
against  the two men charging them with conspiracy, conspiracy to use a
destructive  device, attempted arson, attempted arson at a U.S. government
facility,  possession of a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of
violence,  solicitation to commit a crime of violence, possession of a
machine gun and  possession of an unregistered firearm. The J.D.L., an
organization  responsible for dozens of FBI defined acts of "domestic
terrorism", one  that advocates the mission of its late founder Rabbi Meir
Kahane for all-out violence and expulsion of Palestinians and now caught in
the planning  of murderous bombing attacks on a Congressman, Rep. Darrel
Issa (R-CA), an  Arab American who supports the MidEast peace process, a
Muslim mosque and  the offices of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los
Angeles, only  warrants brief wire reports or deeply buried articles with
no TV reporting  of the indictments, no editorials, and no columnists
railing against  "Jewish Terrorism".

Rubin said the bombings were planned because people  needed to know that
the JDL is "alive in a militant way." Krugel said that  Arabs "need a
wake-up call." Yet such acts don't "wake up" our media or  government
officials. Like the Palestinians, Americans are forced to be  "quiet" about
Israel's terrorism or Jewish American terrorism respectively.

 This hypocrisy and double standards on reporting of Jewish vs. Muslim
alleged crimes mirrors our own government's decades long failed approach to
resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Our institutional motto must
be: "If its Jewish or Israeli, don't touch it." As long as our institutions
continue to pander in their reporting and policies to an "Israeli/Jewish"
agenda where Jewish lives are sacrosanct and Jewish crimes are not
newsworthy, peace will be elusive in the MidEast. Is our "war on terrorism"
ethnically defined?

 WE REPORT, YOU DECIDE.

 Let's look at how one major influential newspaper, the Washington Post,
reports the story of the JDL.'s domestic terrorism versus how it reports on
the seizure of the alleged Palestinians ship loaded with weapons. The
Washington Post Company owns Newsweek Magazine, the Washington Post, and
dozens of television and radio stations, newspapers, cable television
systems, electronic information services, test preparation, and educational
and career services as well as other papers. It also co-owns with the New
York Times the "International Herald Tribune". Located in the nation's
capital,  it is one of the most influential media outlets in the world. It
is  owned and operated by the Graham family, a prominent Jewish American
family.

 How the Post reported on the Indictment of the two Jewish Americans from
the Jewish Defense League:

 Deep on PAGE A22, the Post reports the story in merely 57 words:

January  11, 2002 LOS ANGELES -- A federal grand jury indicted two leaders
of the  militant Jewish Defense League on charges of plotting to bomb the
Muslim  Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, the King Fahd mosque in
Culver City  and a field office of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). Irv Rubin
and Earl  Krugel could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. (57
words)

 Now compare this   with how the Post reports on Israel's illegal seizure,
in  international waters, of an alleged Palestinian ship in the Red Sea.
Note  that the Post has an editorial on the story as well as a column by
the  rabidly Pro-Zionist Jewish American columnist, Charles Krauthammer:

 A. Post Editorial:

"A SHIP COMES IN" January 11, 2001: 447 WORDS B. Charles  Krauthammer's
column: "SHIP OF TRUTH" January 11, 2001: 777 WORDS

In his usual pro-violent and terroristic column, Dr. Krauthammer in the
above mentioned column writes:

 "If we want peace, Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have to go. They
must be delegitimized, de-recognized, de-funded by the United States. And
by Europe. And if that does not bring them down, Israel should be allowed
to go in and do the job itself."

 Since words and space in a major paper are at a premium in terms of cost
and influence, this disparity and bias in reporting coupled with the fact
that the Post regularly denies publishing of Op-Ed pieces and letters
critical of Israel, whether written by Jewish, Christian, but particularly
American Muslims, should behoove the company to rename itself, since it's
obsessed with Truth, to the "TEL AVIV POST" since there already is a
Jerusalem Post.

 For 53 years, truth of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a
casualty  of a public relations campaign, media spin and a corrupt campaign
financing  system orchestrated and supported by Israel and its sympathetic
"American"  Congress and media. This latest incident regarding the seized
ship "Karina  A" loaded with weapons seized by Israel illegally in
international waters  (Red Sea) is a case in point.

Israel immediately blamed Arafat. The timing  of this incident raised
international suspicion that Israel was undermining  Anthony Zinni's return
for peace negotiations. Israel has been known to  manufacture crisis at a
time of potential peace movement or perceived American pressure.

 The patriotic Congressmen travelling to Israel on a "peace mission"
immediately showed their patriotic allegiance to Israel by canceling their
meeting with Arafat. The Congressmen - Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Gary Ackerman
(D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Barney Frank (D-MA)- are all Jewish
Americans who automatically parrot Israel's line, right or wrong. It's a
reflection of the dominance and influence of Jewish Americans in the
Democratic Party where Jews donate almost half of the Party's Campaign
money.

 Since 1978, Pro-Israel PAC's have given $34,607,182 to Congressmen. From
1949-1997 American taxpayers have given to Israel $134,791,507,200; the
world's sixteenth richest nation comprising 0.001 percent of the world's
population. We must stop aid to Israel for the sake of world peace,
especially for America's security.

 The flip flop of the State Department's statements on the Karina A
incident  is in line with our government's constant kowtowing to Israel's
demands and  version of events. On January 6, both the New York Times and
Israel's  Haaretz report that the US Government disputes Israel's claim
regarding the  Karina A's destination as being for Lebanon's Hizbullah and
not for the  Palestinian Authority. However as expected, the U.S. reversed
its story  under Israeli pressure to say on January 8 that it agrees with
Israel's  findings. The history of our government initially opposing
Israel's view  only to quickly reverse itself the next day under enormous
Israeli and  Jewish American pressure has embarrassed our nation and
impugned our  integrity.

 The first and only time our government has publicly stated that it accepts
at face value the words of a Palestinian is during this incident where
Richard Boucher, spokesperson for the State Department said: "We take the
statements at face value. We would consider them credible." Of course the
Palestinian Authority's denial of this incident and their insistence that
the U.S. launch an investigation into this matter is not credible. Why?
Because Israel will not like that and will throw a powerful temper tantrum
that can cause these "American" politicians to wet themselves and fear for
their political lives. Contrary to our laws where one is innocent until
proven guilty, Mr. Boucher said that the evidence (Israel's evidence)
indicates that Palestinians were involved, and that the burden was now on
Mr. Arafat, who has denied responsibility, to provide a full explanation.

 Thus to our Government and Media: "Israel is innocent even when Guilty;
Palestinians are Guilty even when Innocent."

 And that, my friends, is the only reason the United States and Israel
oppose  the formation of an "International Criminal Court". They want
freedom to  wage their "wars" on their enemies with impunity, who now,
thanks to Israel, is "ISLAM" itself.

Israel demands the world, especially the United States,  to accept its
versions of truth and history without question. Such has been  the case for
53 years. Never mind that Lloyd's of London shipping registry  lists the
Karina-A as Iraqi-owned and thus making it almost impossible that  an Iraqi
owned ship would load Iranian weapons, able to bypass the large  American
naval and intelligence flotilla in the Persian gulf and Red Sea,  able to
pass through the Suez Canal to Alexandria, dump its cargo there to  three
small boats heading for Gaza and dumping the cargo in floating  devices to
freely flow to Gaza with all the American, European, Russian,  and Israeli
ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

Sharon's thumping gestures that  Arafat is violating Oslo is laughable,
given that Sharon himself declared it  dead upon taking office when he
outlined his famous Red Six Lines of NO's,  offering the Palestinians only
10% of original Palestine.

 Thus while Israel continues to constantly receive America's tax-funded
weapons to kill Palestinians, Palestinians don't even have the right to
acquire weapons to defend themselves. They should be "quiet" and "unarmed"
as they die helplessly at Sharon's feet - as they have done since 1948 and
through Sharon's murderous adventures and massacre-filled career.

 In the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, David Grossman reminds Israel of its
past history of terrorism against the British and Palestinians as well as
the illegal smuggling of weapons into Israel for their "independence" fight
against British occupation.

 "The fighters of Haganah, the Lehi and the Etzel underground movements
collected and hid as many weapons as they could, and their splendid sliks
are to this day a symbol of the fight for survival and the longing for
liberty, as were the daring weapons acquisition missions during the British
mandate.

 "When we did those things, they were not terrorist in nature. They were
legitimate actions of a people fighting for its life and liberty. When the
Palestinians do them, they become 'proof' of everything we have been so
keen to prove for years now -- their murderousness and the terrorism that
burns in their breasts like second nature."

 YES AMERICA, THERE IS A PRO-ISRAEL CONSPIRACY IN OUR GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA
AT OUR TAX-FUNDED EXPENSE, OUR CREDIBILITY, AND OUR INTEGRITY. THE QUESTION
ALL AMERICANS SHOULD ASK IS: "WHY DOES ISRAEL HATE US WHEN WE DO AND GIVE
EVERYTHING IT DEMANDS?"

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  (Source:  http://www.mediamonitors.net/khodr57.html)

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"They are making a desparate attempt to reclaim the victim status because
they know what is in the closet."

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