“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived
and dishonest; but the myth, persistent, persuasive and
realistic." John
Kennedy
"Israel’s influence on western perception against
Islam cannot be underestimated.
Ben Gurion said of Islam: “We fear nothing but Islam”.
Yitzhak Rabin said: “The religion of Islam is our only
enemy”; Shimon Peres
said: “We will not feel secure until Islam puts away its
sword”. The last
two men won the Nobel Peace Prize".
(The Middle East and the United States.: edited by David W.
Lesch 1996)
In his first foreign trek to Europe as President,
George W. Bush revealed to the world
what his guiding foreign policy dictum will be. Bush
came to the Presidency with the guiding foundation of a
Christian heart anchored in "Compassion
and Humility". Domestically this "C & H" means
favoring the rich, favoring Corporate America, favoring a
strong military,
favoring a new and improved "Star Wars" Shield against
seven poor debilitated dwarfs of "rogue"
nations, damaging the world's
environmental survival, favoring Israel,
pursuing an arrogant America policy that
ignores allies and foes alike, an
abhorrence to world institutions like the
United Nations and the World
Bank, strengthening America's educational system
with more pennies, and an
addiction to the death penalty.
More fascinating is Bush's definition of "C & H"
in foreign policy.
Given his lack of travel, experience, intellectual
competence, and lack of a
non-alcoholic education in foreign policy, Bush desperately
needed a simple,
sound bytish, morally sounding, easy to remember yet
deliberately vague dictum to define his
foreign policy principles. Eureka; in an impromptu
verbal barrage of dyslexic proportion, Bush surprised
himself by uttering
the founding principle of his foreign policy leadership
during a press conference with Vladimir
Putin, Russia's Ex-KGB Spy Master President. Bush
stumbled upon the Motown Phrase: "I'M A SOUL MAN"
(which incidentally wouldn't hurt with
the Democratic African American voters). Bush
announced that he had looked deep
into Putin's 'Soul" and found him to be:
straightforward and trustworthy, strong, patriotic, and wants the
best for his
people; a man he can work with, a man who wants peace, a
humanitarian worthy of an
invitation to the Bush "Ranch". Apparently, being "Ranch
Worthy" is Bush's seal of approval. One can
only assume that these flowery
adjectives of Putin will apply to all world leaders and all
foreign policy
issues. For the sake of argument,
giving the President the benefit of
the doubt let's, accept that
these "soulful" attributes apply to all world
leaders like: Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin
Laden, Muammar Al-Qaddafi, Yasser
Arafat, The Taliban, Robert Mugambe, Ariel Sharon,
Bashar Al-Assad, Fidel Castro,
Kim Jong II of North Korea, Jiang Zemin of
China, Tony Blair and the rest of
world leaders. However, given that the
President is human and thus apt to err, let's be moral and
forgive his impromptu "Soulful"
indiscretion and take just two leaders from this
list and elaborate on the
"Soulful" reality of these leaders as seen by most
of the world, if not all the
world, although they may not express these
opinions publicly.
First let's take Russia's President Vladimir Putin,
the man responsible for Bush's "Soul"
tool of world assessing world leaders.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: A former KGB Spy,
became acting president following
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation on December 31, 1999.
In March, 2000
he won the Presidential elections with just over 50 percent of the
vote with
alleged widespread election fraud. Russians voted for
Putin on the promise
that he would end the "Chechnyan"
Problem. Putin immediately
consolidated his power by appointing
powerful governors, reigned in the military, and
cracked down on the free press. Soon afterwards
Putin became mired in the
Chechnyan war unleashing his powerful military to decimate
the Chechnyan "bandits" with
overwhelming force. In three months the Russian forces
decimated Grozny, Chechnya's capital, with aerial bombing
and tank shells.
Putin's military campaign in Chechnya has displaced a third
of the population---more than 260,000
people---within Chechnya and another
170,000 are living in difficult
circumstances in neighboring Ingushetia.
Humanitarian organizations cannot operate effectively in Chechnya
because of the climate of
insecurity. The pattern of “disappearance,” torture, and
extrajudicial summary execution of detainees, and the
use of unofficial and
secret detention sites has been exhaustively documented by
Russian and international human rights
organizations. The mutilated corpses of some
of the “disappeared” and of many
other, unidentified individuals have been
discovered in more than a dozen dumping grounds throughout
Chechnya. The
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the European Union,
several human
rights organizations (including Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch,
International Commission of Jurists, International Federation of
Human Rights Leagues, International
League for Human Rights, The Memorial
Human Rights Center, Medecins du Monde),
and last but not least even Bush's own
State Department have all issued human rights reports
condemning Russia on
its abuses within the country but especially its massive
military destruction, murder, and
massive burial grounds of bodies in Chechnya.
Human Rights Watch wants the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights to:
- 1.) Condemn ongoing atrocities in Chechnya
- 2.) Note the total failure of the Russian government
to abide by the UN's
previous resolution and
- 3.) Establish an international commission of inquiry
to investigate and document
atrocities committed by both sides to the conflict in
Chechnya.
Putin's crackdown on Russian media while
forbidding any foreign media into
Chechnya has been able to "ethnically cleanse" Chechnya with
impunity away from the eyes of the world.
Additionally, he's used Israel's
most successful public relations strategy guaranteed to
silence American and
European opposition to any "ethnic cleansing"----Putin
presents his war in
Chechnya as a fight against "Islamic Fundamentalism."
In addition to western silence, Putin
has used that strategy to enlist China's and
India's cooperation in their
mutual crackdown on their minority Muslim
population. Imagine what the
reaction of the west would be if this "ethnic
cleansing" was against Jews or
Christians.
Secondly; let's look into the reality of Ariel
Sharon's "Soul" and
Israel's record on Human Rights. The eerie
similarity of Sharon's treatment of
Palestinians to Putin's treatment of Chechnyans is
shocking, yet for different
political considerations, both men are getting away
with murder.
ARIEL SHARON: A Lifetime "MURDERER AND
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR"
Like Putin, Sharon came to power because the
Israeli's wanted and
demanded an experienced strong man to smash the four month
uprising of the
Second Palestinian Uprising (Intifadah II) that he
personally helped to spark by his
provocative visit to Haram Al Sharif, Islam's third holiest
site in Jerusalem. Sharon's murderous history and
addiction to lying is known not only to
the Palestinians, but to the Israeli's and the world.
David Ben Gurion was the first to call Sharon a "Liar".
We must dare end our billions of dollars in aid to
Israel and Egypt and spend it on countries that desperately need
it. Giving money to Israel is like a welfare single mother sending
her check to Bill Gates.
He himself admitted his need and propensity to lie
in a meeting with
the Yesha Council of Settlements in May 2001 where in the
presence of the
media he referred to Israel's operations against the
Palestinians by saying:
"There are things we will tell the public about, there are
things we will
deny and there are things that will remain hidden forever."
In the past Sharon has also said:
"In wartime, you don't have to expose everything
to the world, to stand in public
and reveal everything, in the name of that
hypocritical and lie-filled concept known as HONESTY."
This hypocritical bloodthirsty warrior accused of
barbaric war crimes throughout his fifty
year career in the Israeli army is now Prime
Minister of Israel, America's only civilized "democratic"
friend in the Middle East, a man Bush
will welcome for the second time in a few days
while deliberately
not inviting Yasser Arafat as a gesture to the Jewish lobby
and Congress.
Bush's domestic agenda is held hostage in Congress to "encourage"
Bush to adopt
more favorable Pro-Israel positions.
Sharon made his first murderous mark as a twenty
something commander
of Unit 101 when in October 1953 he attacked the
Palestinian village of Kibya.
Sharon's unit executed sixty-nine civilians, many of them women
and children who became entombed
in their own houses that were blown up on
top of them. Decades later
in his autobiography, Sharon recalled this
massacre: ''Kibya was to be a
lesson, I was to inflict as many casualties as I
could on the Arab home guard and
on whatever Jordanian army reinforcements
showed up.
I was to blow up every major building in the town."
In the early 1970's, Sharon brutally crushed a
Palestinian uprising
in Gaza against Israel's illegal occupation. In
January of this year, Sharon gave an
interview to a Russian-language radio station in which he
recalled crushing this uprising. He stated that
he plowed vast security
roads in Gaza through many refugee camps, shot dead any
Palestinian suspected of nationalist
activity and conquered Gaza camp by camp.
He said:
"I succeeded in bringing quiet to Gaza for ten years."
Later in 1982, Sharon as Defense Minister launched
his ill fated invasion of Lebanon under
the pretext and lie not only to his own
government but to America as well when
he told Alexander Haig, Secretary of State
(who gave Sharon the green light
for the invasion) that he will only enter
Lebanon for 40 Kilometers and only for 48 hours. The
chillingly named "Peace for Galilee"
invasion lasted for months, besieging the first Arab
capital--Beirut for 3 months, killing over 25,000 Lebanese
and Palestinian
civilians with illegally used American weapons such as
Cluster Bombs, and
resulting in the war's worst civilian massacre--the cold
blooded murder of
2,000 Palestinians in the camps of Sabra and Chatila by
Christian Phalangists under the
watchful, supportive military eye of Israel's
army. The IDF not only had
surrounded the camps and allowed these murderers
entry but actually lit the sky
over the camps at night with flares for better
visual killing for 3 days and prevented any media or
medical aid into the
camps until the slaughter was over. The world
and Israel was outraged. Sharon, as
Israel's defense minister, was held "indirectly responsible"
by Israel's Kahane commission .
The commission recommended that Sharon
"draw the appropriate personal
conclusions" and resign from his post as
defense minister. He did but was
given another cabinet post. He never stood
trial as a war criminal although
a trial in Belgium may succeed where America,
the United Nations, and the world
failed. Nuremburg Trials, U.N.
Resolutions, the Fourth Geneva
Convention and Holocaust Museums are only meant for
NON-JEWS. Even today Sharon as prime minister is the
first Israeli to illegally use F-16's
and Apache Helicopters for assassinations and crowd
control. Yet Bush still deems him "Ranch Worthy."
Obviously, Bush doesn't even read his own
government's Human Rights
reports. Here are some excerpts from the 2000 State
Department Human Rights
Report on Israel.
"Israel's overall human rights record in the
occupied territories was
poor...Israeli security forces committed numerous serious
human rights abuses during the year.
Security forces killed 307 Palestinians and four
foreign nationals and injured at least 11,300 Palestinians
and other persons
during the year. Israeli security forces targeted for
killing a number of
Palestinians whom the Israeli government stated had
attacked or were planning future attacks
on Israeli settlements or military targets; a
number of bystanders reportedly
also were killed during these incidents".
"Since the violence began, Israeli security units
often used excessive
force against Palestinian demonstrators. Israeli security
forces sometimes
exceeded their rules of engagement, which provide that live
fire is only to
be used when the lives of soldiers, police, or civilians
are in imminent danger. IDF [Israel
Defense Force {rcub} forces also shelled PA
[Palestinian Authority]
institutions and Palestinian civilian areas in response to
individual Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians or
settlers; seven Palestinians and one
foreign national were killed, and 131 Palestinians
were injured in these attacks.
Israeli security forces abused Palestinians in
detention suspected of security offenses".
"....the use of a variety of abusive practices,
including violent shaking,
painful shackling in contorted positions, and prolonged
exposure to extreme
temperatures....There were numerous credible allegations
that police beat
persons in detention. Three Palestinian prisoners died in
Israeli custody
under ambiguous circumstances during the year.
Prison conditions are poor.
Prolonged detention, limits on due process, and
infringements on privacy rights remained
problems."
"Israeli security forces sometimes impeded the
provision of medical assistance to
Palestinian civilians. Israeli security forces destroyed
Palestinian-owned agricultural land. Israeli
authorities censored Palestinian
publications, placed limits on freedom of assembly, and
restricted freedom of movement for Palestinians."
The U.N. High Commission on Human Rights, Mary
Robinson, after a full investigation of
human rights abuses in Israel reported to the
Secretary General of the United Nations that Israel is
maliciously and repeatedly violating
Palestinian human rights. European Union Human
Rights representatives issued
similar condemnation of Israel for its violence
and treatment of Palestinians in
addition to all the major Human Rights
Organizations mentioned above regarding Russia. Despite
international calls
for a U.N. Observatory force to protect Palestinian
civilians and to observe
the violence, the United States as usual came to the rescue
of Israel by being the only country to
veto a U.N. Security Council Resolution to
provide such an observatory
force. Thus the United States role in protecting
and supporting Israel continues
its historical policy toward Israel
consisting of:
1. Providing Israel the latest military
weapons knowing full well that these
weapons will be used against civilians. Despite the timid
expression of outrage by Powell
against the use of F-16's against Palestinian
civilians, the United States has just approved another sale
of 50 F-16's to
Israel at a huge discount that America's taxpayers end up
paying for.
2. Continue to provide Israel, a rich nation
with billions of dollars (so
far $150 Billion since 1949) in aid although American
domestic programs are
being cut. Shockingly, Israel is asking its American
Congress for $! Billion extra to cover
its fight against Palestinian "terrorism",
Israel's name for a people's
legitimate right to resist military occupation.
3. Protect Israel with Vetoes against UN
Security Council Resolutions and
against any International Body's attempt to censor Israel
for human rights
abuses. Ironically, the U.S. even vetoes UN
Resolutions it either introduced or
supported.
4. Ensure that all government officials and
the major media parrot and adopt Israeli
talking points for maximum impact on American public
opinion while simultaneously
forbidding any view that opposes Israel's interest.
Perhaps President Bush should wake up and smell
the blood on the hands of Putin and
Sharon and reevaluate his "Soul" peering skills and
"Ranch Worthiness" of these two murderers. Even
the normally Pro-Israel,
Anti-Arab, Anti-Islam, Anti-Black, Anti-U.N., Anti-Human
Rights Senator Jesse Helms (R) of North
Carolina understands that Putin's "...brutal
indiscriminate military campaign in Chechnya continues
unabated."
Sharon's arrival to Washington D.C. will be
another opportunity (like every other
Prime Minister) to showcase Israel's enormous
"restraint" in face of unbearable
pressure from "Likudist" Jews and Settlers
thirsting for a total
annihilation of Palestinians. For such restraint, Sharon
will ask for more billions to
soothe the anger of the Shas Party, Settlers,
and the military. He will
also ask for further alienation and condemnation
of Yasser Arafat, more military
and strategic intelligence cooperation as
well as cutting off of aid to
Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians for their
refusal to accept Israel's positions and explanations.
He will also ask Bush to ignore the
Mitchell's report recommendation to freeze the
"Settlements" and to unequivocally absolve Sharon from any
war crime charges
in Lebanon in 1982 despite the findings of international
law experts. As usual the media will lay
out the red carpet for Sharon, trumpet his
arguments and allegations without any consideration to the
Palestinian side.
