Our government's constant and blind support of Israel for
the last 53 years has been a dark stain on our domestic and international
history. Due to that support, Israel was given the green light to launch
wars, commit massacres and atrocities with our tax funded weapons, defy 60
UN Resolutions that demand it withdraws from occupied territories, cease
its military invasions, end its occupation of an entire Palestinian
population, refrain from building illegal settlements, stop abusing human
rights and torture of prisoners.
In addition to American tax payer aid amounting to at
least $150 Billion since 1949 to one of the world's richest countries, the
latest weapons and technology that Israel obtains legally and illegally,
its total disregard for our laws that forbid sale of our technology to
third world countries like China, its attack on our naval ship the USS
Liberty killing 34 Americans and injuring 171, our country has cast about
a third of all the vetoes in the UN Security Council since 1947 mainly
protecting Israel from world condemnation for its rogue behavior.
If you want to locate Powell's and Bush's cojones look no
further than the powerful intimidating Israeli lobby in Washington DC---AIPAC:
The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee ( www.aipac.org
).
Our country has been hijacked by a tiny Zionist nation in
the Middle East that deems Jewish interests and blood above all else, even
American interests and blood. If we want our country back and independent
all of us must speak up and regain our government, our money, our prestige
and moral credibility in the world. The question is: DO YOU CARE ENOUGH
ABOUT AMERICA?
Write your Congressmen ( www.congress.org/main.html
), write the President, write the Honorable Secretary Colin Powell (secretary@state.gov),
and write your media telling them we're sick of their one sided bias
toward Israel above our own national interests. It makes no sense to allow
Israel to defy international laws and norms to kill Arabs and Muslims who
own 65% of the world's oil and expect cheap gas for our SUV's. Have
courage friends and speak through your churches, synagogues, mosques,
civic and veteran groups (our Congress funded with our dollars the
Holocaust Museum in Washington DC but refused to fund a W.W.II Veteran
Memorial--now that's Jewish Chutzpah), colleges, or individually. Our work
will provide Israel with its best chance for peace and security and regain
for America its credibility, morality, and sense of justice. Now do you
understand why we were kicked off the UN Human Rights Commission? While we
criticize everyone else for abusing human rights we provide cover and
disallow any criticism of Israel's outrageous human rights abuses.
God Bless America, my country ''tis of thee.
- Mohamed Khodr MD
- Virginia
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Open Letter to Colin Powell
The Honorable Secretary Colin Powell:
As an American citizen who witnessed first hand our myriad
of illegal allegedly defensive weapons unleashed by the war criminal
Sharon for months upon the innocent Lebanese and Palestinian civilians in
Beirut I must ask you and President Bush if you're priority is to protect
America's economic and political international interests or is to serve as
Israel's dream defense team absolving and accepting Israel's lies and
excuses whenever Palestinian or Arab civilians die by weapons Made in
America.
Many in the entire world not just the 1.3 billion Muslims
had hoped that you would have the "chutzpah" to perhaps provide
a semblance of balance to Israel's powerful lobby and friends that provide
our Congress and Administration with the appropriate official policy
talking points. If you're aura, prestige, popularity and charisma is
incapable of putting America first then what hope is there for peace in
the Middle East. When Israel kills it's "self defense against
terrorism"; when Israel imprisons dozens of American citizens it's
"self defense against terrorism", when Israel violates our laws,
UN Resolutions, and international laws it's "self defense against
terrorism", when Israel's official policy is to torture civilians
it's "self defense against terrorism", when it violates human
rights and is condemned by every human rights organizations "it's
self defense against terrorism", when it launches routine bombings
and house demolitions against Lebanon and the Palestinians it's "self
defense against terrorism", when it destroys Christian and Muslim
houses of worship or bombs the birthplace of Christ it's "self
defense against terrorism", when a Kach terrorist group comes to the
US to raise money to kill Palestinians it's "self defense against
terrorism", when Israel builds 200-300 nuclear bombs and 5 nuclear
submarines from Germany (4 given freely) it's "self defense against
terrorism".
Our government and cowardly media simply accepts Israel's
lies along with generous campaign contributions and lucrative book deals
and high paid speeches for its patsies. But when a Palestinian
legitimately resists Israel's brutal occupation our President, you, and
the opportunistic Congressmen like Lantos, Gilman, Schumer, Specter
(author of "Passion of Truth); what a hypocrite) and a letter signed
by 87 Senators and 209 Congressmen sent to President Bush (I've never seen
so many of our honorable Congressmen sign such a letter on behalf of
insurance for America's millions of poor children) immediately are
provided live coverage by our networks to lambaste "Palestinian
violence, terrorism, against a civilized Jewish population who simply want
to live in peace in their "settlements" paid for by us".
Is it any wonder we were kicked out of the Human Rights
Commission? Israel has always been our Achilles Heel and master of our
foreign policy. This won't change with your tenure but will change in time
for various reasons least of which is the changing color and demographics
of our country. Can you look into the future and see what may happen to
this "special relationship"? Arabs are good as long as they give
us cheap SUV oil and provide live targets for our latest technological
weapons.
It's not all your fault. Our media is the Israeli whipping
stick much more dangerous than Eisenhower's
"military-industrial" national missile defense shield lobby.
Your star is fading, General, unlike your hero General
George Marshall who went to his grave with honor for standing up to Chaim
Weizman and Clark Clifford although he lost. Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice
(Sharon's distracting leggy woman) have Bush's ear while you get to
justify our policy of silence. You couldn't even outright support the
Mitchell report or the Jordanian-Egyptian peace proposal or even provide
some comfort to the outraged Europeans.
Just think of the immense financial reward you'll receive
when you leave office from the generous Pro-Israeli Anti-American
establishment, thus why should you stand up for principle, integrity,
honor, human rights and America's interests and jeopardize that wealth.
The choice is so obvious, take the money, General and run. Let Eliot
Abrams do your dirty work and absolve Israel from what the rest of the
world knows is true--Israel is killing innocent Christians and Muslims and
destroying their houses of worship. Have you seen pictures of hundreds of
Palestinians forbidden from entering the Dome of the Rock on Fridays to
pray and thus end up prostrating at the feet of Israel's soldiers? Of
course not, our TV networks are busy covering the latest sex scandals,
dumbing our nation even more.
You may want to ask the Marines who are alive today
because of my "muslim" blood why their barracks was bombed in
Beirut in 1983. They will tell you the truth--it was Israel's policy and
influence on Reagan thanks to Begin and Sharon.
I understand you're supportive of rewarding Israel with
hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate the loss of its rockets,
missiles, and bullets it lost in the hearts, eyes, and brains of
Palestinian children. I support your American First logic that in essence
alienates 1.3 billion Muslims plus millions of Christians and Jews to save
the nuclear powered "besieged" 5 million Israel Jews.
God bless America, sorry I mean to say Israel.
Mohamed Khodr MD
