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Corporate Media Blames Victims in Palestine Kurt
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“Bush administration officials said more young people in Gaza as well as the Lebanese refugee camps are turning to jihad because they feel more secular or moderate paths have failed to improve their lives,” UPI adds. No doubt, as these “secular or moderate paths” were systematically undermined and destroyed, thanks to the Mossad, also known as the “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks,” as killing Palestinian nationalists is indeed considered a “special task” for the Israeli government. Both MI6 and the CIA worked to undermine secular Arab nationalism—including its more moderate strain, as represented by Gamal Abd-al Nasser of Egypt. In response to Nasser’s nationalist impudence, former British prime minister Winston Churchill instructed then prime minister Anthony Eden, upon Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez: “Tell them if we have any more of their cheek we will set the Jews on them and drive them into the gutter, from which they should have never emerged.”
“The CIA was following the example of British Intelligence and sought to use Islam to further its goals,” writes Peter Goodgame. “They wanted to find a charismatic religious leader that they could promote and control and they began to cooperate with groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. With the rise of Nasser the Brotherhood was also courted more seriously by the pro-Western Arab regimes of Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They needed all the popular support that they could muster against the rise of Nasser-inspired Arab nationalism to keep their regimes intact.” In regard to Israel, its “support for Hamas ‘was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative,’” a former senior CIA official told Richard Sale of the UPI. “According to documents United Press International obtained from the Israel-based Institute for Counter Terrorism, Hamas evolved from cells of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928. Islamic movements in Israel and Palestine were ‘weak and dormant’ until after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel scored a stunning victory over its Arab enemies…. According to U.S. administration officials, funds for the movement came from the oil-producing states and directly and indirectly from Israel. The PLO was secular and leftist and promoted Palestinian nationalism. Hamas wanted to set up a transnational state under the rule of Islam, much like Khomeini’s Iran.” And why exactly would Israel support radical Palestinian Muslims, determined to destroy the Israeli state? “The thinking on the part of some of the right-wing Israeli establishment was that Hamas and the others, if they gained control, would refuse to have any part of the peace process and would torpedo any agreements put in place,” an anonymous U.S. government official told Sale. “There is a security vacuum that creates space for all kinds of new grouplets and forces,” Mouin Rabbani, a Jordan-based analyst of Palestinian politics for the International Crisis Group, told the New York Times, according to UPI. Of course, as history—history studiously ignored by the corporate media, particularly the New York Times—demonstrates, such “grouplets and forces” were and are routinely nurtured and encouraged by Israeli, British, and American intelligence operations for a variety of reasons, most recently to create the specter of Islamic terrorism. Naturally, Mr. Rabbani should be taken with a large grain of salt, as the International Crisis Group is supported by the usual suspects, namely the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, and MacArthur foundations, and not surprisingly the Sarlo Jewish Community Endowment Fund. The Sarlo Foundation, according to its website, doles out grants to “the State of Israel to address the social service needs of its most vulnerable populations.” No indication if such “vulnerable populations” include the Palestinians. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why Palestinians are radicalized, or maybe it should be traumatized, as the Israeli state has, since at least 1967, violated 149 substantive articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that protect the rights of occupied people. “As matters of fact and of law, the gross and repeated violations of Palestinian rights by the Israeli army and Israeli settlers living illegally in occupied Palestine constitute war crimes,” writes Francis A. Boyle. “The paradigmatic example of a ‘crime against humanity’ is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish People. This is where the concept of crime against humanity came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission determined that Israel is currently doing to the Palestinian People: Crimes against humanity. Legally, just like what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews.” But then, of course, it is not permitted to make analogies between the Israeli state and the Nazi state, as in certain parts of the world this is considered a hate crime, for instance in Canada where your humble blogger is designated a thought criminal. Considered more egregious, for the Canadian Human Rights Commission at the behest of the Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai Brith, is the prospect of accusing the Israeli state of genocide. Francis A. Boyle expands:
“All of us know about the genocide that took place in Nazi Germany,” explains Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, “some of us know about the genocide visited on the Armenians in the opening years of the 20th Century and other blood baths that have been carried out for political purposes across the face of the globe. But how many of us are aware that today in Palestine another genocide is underway? Carried out under cover of euphemistic media coverage, carefully worded to disguise an agenda of death, thousands are dying slowly, blown to bits. Children are targeted, shot, maimed. Using a terror that makes Nazi Germany look mannerly and compassionate, lives are being snuffed out coldly as part of a long term plan to eliminate a nation from the face of the Earth.” This “euphemistic media coverage” is designed to bury notice of Israel’s well-documented and on-going crimes against humanity—especially at a time when “Israel’s former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu—one of the most senior theocrats in the Jewish State ‘ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings,’” according to Ali Abunimah, writing for the Electronic Intifada. “The Jerusalem Post reported that Mordechai made this ruling in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert citing biblical authority. The letter was published in a weekly journal distributed in synagogues throughout Israel. The report states that ‘According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets.’” In short, “Jewish war ethics” are in no way obliged by rules the rest of the civilized world honors and respects, with the exemption of the United States government and a few tinhorn dictators and sadists around the world.
Of course, the “theocratically-sanctioned massacres of Palestinians by Israel” will continue, as will the engineered in-fighting between the religious Hamas and the secular Fatah, the former sheparded by Israeli intelligence strictly for this reason, thus providing rationale for the “right-wingers’ opposition to further pullouts and charges that Palestinians are unfit for statehood,” as the International News reports. Meanwhile, the non-reporting and omissive corporate media here in the land of the intellectually incurious and stepfordized has done a smashing job. “Substantially larger numbers of Americans have placed their primary sympathy with Israel rather than with Arab states or with the Palestinians,” the Pew Forum on Religion and Life notes. “The only other nation in that survey where sympathy for Israel substantially outpaced sympathy for the Palestinians was Germany,” a not surprising fact considering Germans, since the end of the Second World War, have endured incessant pro-Israel propaganda, resulting in a continuing pretext to fleece the German people at the tune of 102 billion marks, about $61.8 billion at 1998 exchange rates, never mind that the vast majority of Germans paying off this blackmail were not alive during Hitler’s reign and are not morally obliged to pay, that is unless one buys into the Old Testament line about the sins of the fathers.
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