No one should doubt that American governmental and public
opinion is formulated and shaped by our media. Greater than Israel's
military success against Arab countries in six different wars (1948, 1956,
1967, 1973, 1979, 1982) has been Israel's overpowering monopoly on our
media to tell its lies and myths in a most sympathetic and romantic story
of a beleaguered weak democratic nation trying to simply survive in a
"sea of Arab hatred".
Whether its through Jewish ownership of our media, Jewish
directorship, Jewish editors and reporters, Jewish advertising dollars, or
Fear of and Intimidation by powerful Jewish Lobbies with enormous money
and tremendous organization in all fifty states, our media cowardly
panders to the Israeli viewpoint thus guaranteeing that our busy
uninformed Congress will kowtow to the Israeli viewpoint as well as the
American public that has been indoctrinated since childhood on the glory
of Israel fighting the barbaric violent terrorist Arabs.
Jewish Americans like the "Jewish Unity for a Just
Peace or "Junity" (www.junity.org) or Jews for Justice in the Middle East
(www.cactus48.org) as well as other Jewish organizations who have the courage and moral
fortitude to oppose Israel's brutal occupation of Palestinian lands and
its murderous destructive policies, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, as
well as many Americans who oppose our country's blind and immoral support
of a rogue nation like Israel do NOT have access to our media whether its
television or the print media. Letters from me, an Arab American Muslim,
as well as the groups mentioned above need not trouble themselves to write
to the major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the
twin towers of Zionist Israeli propaganda. They have a stealth sign on
their editorial pages: ANTI-ISRAEL AMERICANS NEED NOT APPLY.
All of us together whether Jews, Christians, and Muslims
must reach out to each other, organize our strategies and fund our efforts
to do what's right by Israel and the Palestinians to end the violence
(mainly against the Palestinian civilians), end the occupation including
of East Jerusalem, dismantle the settlements, and pressure our Israeli
dominated government to impose a peace based on UN Resolutions 242, 338,
476, and 478. The American people are only seeing and hearing Israel's
public relations indoctrination of its lies. Americans deserve the truth
and the trust that then and only then they will do the right thing for
peace and justice.
I have personally written over 500 letters to our media on
the issues of Palestine and Islam with only a handful being published that
were toned down and deemed acceptable. Below are two of my latest letters
to the Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post.
Please contact the groups below and support their
courageous efforts. With God's blessing we will succeed but only if we get
involved and speak out.
- Mohamed Khodr MD
- Virginia
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For further information on the future of Junity, see www.junity.org. For information on the May 20 protest in New York, contact
Jews Against the Occupation at jatonyc@yahoo.com.
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LETTER TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: NOT PUBLISHED
As I read the article "With the McVeigh delay,
pressure rises for FBI reform" (May 14) by Dante Chinni and Abraham
McLaughlin that detailed a series of missteps and errors committed by the
FBI in several high profile cases none more so than the deadliest domestic
terrorist act in Oklahoma City, I couldn't help but wonder how things may
differ if Timothy McVeigh was a Muslim. In fact, our media, law
enforcement, and government officials immediately accused Muslims after
the Oklahoma bombing without any evidence.
If McVeigh was a Muslim would he have been guaranteed the
full extent of our Constitutional protection, including the recent delay,
during his trial? Would 60 Minutes have spent an entire hour (May 13)
interviewing him politely, patiently asking him his motives and feelings
while the victims reacted to his statements, debated the death penalty and
asking God to forgive him? Would so much media attention be given to
America's most lethal "Christian" terrorist? Would the FBI be so
castigated and investigated for its errors and would Congress hold
hearings on the FBI handling of this case? Would his lawyers be
interviewed with such respect by all the media as to their next strategy?
The answer is obviously NO. When it comes to Muslim suspects, Americans or
otherwise, the FBI's quick investigations here and abroad are never
questioned, not their methods, witnesses, or lab results. The suspects
would be automatically identified as "Muslim Terrorists"
presumed guilty until proven innocent. The media could care less about
their fate, the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service would even
violate the Constitutional due process of law and hold these suspects for
years without a trial or charge under so called "secret
evidence". The Congress until now has not even voted to repeal this
unconstitutional practice despite 112 Representatives cosponsoring the
repeal. Neither the Attorney General nor the President would even be
involved in such cases. In fact such suspects are usually brought to New
York in front of a hostile prejudicial jury against Islam (World Trade
Center bombing) and convicted and sentenced within a few days to weeks.
Ironically, our own government is silent when even dozens of Arab American
citizens are held in Israeli prisons without charge. Our justice system is
callous reeking with double standards when it comes to non-white religious
minorities with Jews being the exception (recall the Mark Rich and
Hassidic Jew pardons).
The moral of the story in our Justice system is if you're
an Arab American, Muslim American, African American, Hispanic or other
minorities the system will racially profile you, your trial is a sham,
forget about governmental guarantees, no 60 Minutes or media attention, or
even due process. America's dual justice system for the rich, the whites,
the powerful is friendly while for the colored, poor, foreigners, and
non-Christians its a disgrace.
Mohamed Khodr MD
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LETTER TO WASHINGTON POST: NOT PUBLISHED
53 Years of Western Silence
Mr. Lee Hockstader's "Israeli Raids in Territories
Grow Routine" (May 14) is commendable for its candid assessment of
the tragic and domestically motivated western silence regarding Israel's
disproportionate, aggressive and violent military incursions, bombings,
and helicopter rocket assassinations against Palestinian police and
civilians. So far over 450 Palestinians have been killed, a third are
children under 15 with over 21,000 injured with 73 Israeli's dead and 13
Israeli Arabs killed during a peaceful demonstration.
Mr. Hockstader laments the silence of Europe, Bush, and
Powell regarding Israeli's destructive forays that our media deliberately
ignores unless there are Israeli casualties. However, western silence is
not new toward the Palestinian tragedy but has been a matter of policy
since Israel's founding in 1948 by force on Palestinian land resulting in
the destruction of 450 villages, countless massacres of Palestinians, and
the expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians from their homes only to be repeated
in 1967 with Israel's preemptive occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
resulting in another 300,000 refugees.
Tomorrow, May 15, Israel celebrates its statehood while
Palestinians mourn their tragedy imposed by England, the U.S., and the
United Nations out of Holocaust guilt and Jewish domestic influence.
For 53 years Palestinians have seen over 60 UN Resolutions
adopted by the United Nations in their favor defied by Israel while the
U.S. has cast 73 Vetoes since 1947 mostly to protect Israel. The
confluence of a powerful Jewish lobby on our government, the impotence of
Arab and Muslim leaders, a paralyzed U.N. at the whim of Jesse Helms, and
a neglectful media on Israeli atrocities, the Palestinians will continue
to endure death, injury, expulsions, house demolition, a military siege
and occupation that denies freedom of movement, food, water, and medicines
until the only voice that can impose a just peace for both Israeli's and
Palestinians can muster the courage to speak---the American people. Our
silence complicity emboldens Israel's use of our money and weapons upon
Palestinian civilians.
Mohamed Khodr MD
