Zionism’s Jewish Enemy

Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe

Like all Israelis, Ilan Pappe was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It wasn’t until he went to England to continue his academic studies that he had access to documentation which enabled him to understand that Zionism’s version is a propaganda lie.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23893.htm

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophw

Avi Shlaim The Guardian, Wednesday 7 January 2009

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state’s legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-palestine

Jews to Israel: Stop villifying Goldstone:

“When it comes to Israel, hard-core censorship and intimidation by those claiming to speak in the name of the Jewish people have been the order of the day,” the letter said regarding Israel’s response to the Goldstone report findings.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125830.html

On 22 Sept. ’09, Rabi’ a-Tawil, from East Jerusalem, entered Israel through the Mevo Beitar checkpoint. At a nearby gas station, soldiers took his identifying documents and went to the checkpoint. A-Tawil continued to a second gas station, some two kilometers from the checkpoint, where soldiers shot and killed him, although he did not endanger them.

http://www.btselem.org/English/

Shortly after the incident, I was listening to a talk-radio station. The host was interviewing the CEO of a security consultant firm. The latter was an ex-marine.

The two discussed the perpetrator of the Ft Hood attack and his background, and then fell all over each other to underscore, for the benefit of the audience, that this did not mean that *all* muslims were bad. In fact, “many” had served and continue to “serve honorably in the service of their country.”

Interesting… If the perp had been a middle-class white guy of Judeao-Christian background, would they have added a similar disclaimer, i.e., “not all white Judeao-Christian guys are bad, and many have served honorable in the service of their country?”

Of COURSE NOT. The reason for the disclaimer is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, pure and simple. It is a fear that stating the obvious FACTS of the matter will somehow result in accusations of racism and bigotry. It is the fear that a law suit will follow, and that the ACLU will run you and your institution’s reputation through the ringer.

How else you do explain why it is that everyone knew the Hasan was coming unglued, and everyone knew that he was developing a violent disposition toward the people and institutions that he had take MULTIPLE oaths to defend and protect? God forbid somebody had acted to resstrict this man’s clearances and access. God forbid they had even taken him into a conference room and asked him why he was behaving so strangely. They they done so, they might have saved more than a dozen lives, but no, the risk of stating the obvious is too much. Nobody wants a charge of “racism” on their record.

Now, with the bodies of the victims barely in the ground, politically-correct morons are now asking… what did the military do to “induce” this terrorist’s behavior? Maybe our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan? Perhaps it’s Bush’s fault for getting us engaged in an “illegal and unjust” war?

Lest you fall into that line of thinking, let me propose this to you. During WWII, fear drove us to round up and place into internment camps thousands of Japanese Americans. Despite that, Japanese American soldiers whose own fathers and mothers might have been locked up back at home, did not rise up to frag their fellow soldiers, despite “good” reasons why an unbalanced individual from this demographic group might. I am not aware of a single incident. Are you?

What about the tens of thousands of American soldiers with German ancestry who picked up arms, and went to fight in Europe against branches of their own family tree? How many of them, under “stress,” turned their weapons on fellow Americans? I am not aware of any such case.

Another thing: I wish the morons in the White House and in the press would quite referring to the Ft. Hood incident as a “tragedy.” It is NOT a tragedy. A tragedy is bridge collapsing, or an earthquake that flattens a building and kills a bunch of people. Please, let’s call this what it was. It was an ATTACK. It was a MASSACRE. It was a planned EXECUTION. There was no accident here.

The bottom line is this: Hasan is a terrorist. Perhaps a nutcase, but a terrorist. His attack was planned, and worked out in advance. He took the trouble to clean out his apartment and dispose of his belongings prior to the attach. He made attempts to connect with Al Quieda. His violent tendencies toward fellow Americans was fed by his particular brand of religion. (Note: He did not yell “Praise Jesus and pass the ammo!” He DID yell “Allah Akbar!” as he murdered his fellow soldiers.)

Unless we can recite and act on the facts of a situation without fear of reprisal, we are doomed. We need to be able to call a spade a spade, and act on it… before innocents are murdered.

Political correctness is our cancer, and at the moment, that cancer appears to be terminal.

Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?

November 8, 2009

Where Will They Get the Troops?
Preparing undeployables for the Afghan front

by Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare

http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2009/11/08/who-will-be-sent-to-afghanistan/

Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?

November 8, 2009

In a grim Nov. 3 Wall Street Journal piece (buried inside the paper), Yochi Dreazen reported record suicide rates for a stressed-out U.S. Army. Sixteen soldiers killed themselves in October alone, 134 so far this year, essentially ensuring that last year’s “record” of 140 suicides will be broken. This represents a startling 37 percent jump in suicides since 2006 and, for the first time, puts the suicide rate in the Army above that of the general U.S. population.

After eight years of two major counterinsurgency wars (and various minor encounters in what used to be called the Global War on Terror), with many soldiers experiencing multiple tours of duty, with approximately 120,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq and almost 70,000 in Afghanistan, with the Afghan War clearly in an escalatory phase, commanders in the field calling for 40,000-80,000 more American troops, and base construction on the rise, the military’s internal problems are clearly escalating as well.

As Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Sarah Lazare report, under these circumstances, the Army is digging deep for deployable troops; in fact, it’s dipping into a pool of soldiers who have already been damaged or even broken by their experiences in our war zones – and that’s just to meet present deployment needs. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that Dreazen included this striking passage in his report: “At a White House meeting Friday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff urged President Barack Obama to send fresh troops to Afghanistan only if they have spent at least a year in the U.S. since their last overseas tour, according to people familiar with the matter. If Mr. Obama agreed to that condition, many potential Afghanistan reinforcements wouldn’t be available until next summer at the earliest.”

In translation (if Dreazen is correct), that means, in a private brainstorming session with the president, the Joint Chiefs have evidently put the brakes on implementing the full-scale plan of CENTCOM Commander David Petraeus and Afghan War commander Stanley McChrystal to send a massive infusion of new troops to Afghanistan any time soon.

It’s worth asking – though no one, as far as I can tell, yet has – whether this may be a modest Afghan equivalent of the “Shinseki moment” before the invasion of Iraq. (Then, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki warned in congressional testimony that, if we invaded, we would need “several hundred thousand” troops – numbers not available – for the occupation to follow. He was laughed into retirement by the Bush-appointed civilian leadership of the Pentagon.)

At the same time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Mike Mullen, has just made it clear that the Pentagon will once again request supplemental war-fighting funds sometime next year, over and above the $130 billion Congress appropriated only a month ago in the Defense Department budget. These will be based, in part, on a calculation that each 1,000 new troops sent to Afghanistan must be supported by an extra billion dollars in funds. (You can do the math yourself on those 40,000 troops and then wonder just where all that money is going to come from.)

We are, in fact, facing an ongoing disaster not just for the U.S., but for the U.S. military. Read the following piece and ask yourself: What state would a military have to be in to consider sending such men back into a war zone? A desperate military is, of course, the answer – a military rubbed raw and, as the shocking mass murder spree at already stressed-out Fort Hood may indicate, on edge in a way that perhaps no one has quite grasped.

Where Will They Get the Troops?
Preparing undeployables for the Afghan front

by Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare

http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2009/11/08/who-will-be-sent-to-afghanistan/

The morning-after pill requires the woman to accept the fact that she might be pregnant as a result of last night’s escapade and take RESPONSIBILITY for it. But we seem to be an intrinsically lazy society, believing “it can’t happen to me” and doing nothing until disaster strikes and the simple solution is no longer an option.

It would be interesting to know the number of prescriptions written for the morning-after pill versus the number of abortions performed. I’m guessing the latter outnumber the former.

Hasan is Palestinian. He was unable to overcome his emotional conflict over loyalty to the US military–which meant he sanctioned US Foreign Policy–and thus his collusion in violent action which directly affected his own Palestinian identity. He has family in Ramallah; they are subjected to hideous suffering in the Palestinian Territories due to US Foreign Policy support for Israel’s military occupation, repression and oppression of Palestinians.

Here’s another thing: The pressure to conform in the military is huge; everyone is propagandized constantly; those who don’t conform to the group-think are increasingly isolated, both socially and professionally. The comments are constantly negative regarding Muslims because military soldiers are taught to believe in the mission. Hasan tried to tell people in small ways that he didn’t believe in the mission, so he was ostracized and condemned instead of hustled out like he should have been. He learned to keep his mouth shut, but he was unable to contain his rage.

He tried to get out; the Army would not let him, because they paid for his medical school. Eventually, he lost it; he was likely mentally unstable from the beginning; but add in the pressures of his increasing identity with Islam, and at some point, people implode.

He isn’t the only ticking time bomb out there, you know, and I don’t mean Muslim soldiers in the US Army.

It doesn’t matter whether someone is Muslim or not; the psyche can only take so much, before it cracks. Suicides have soared in the military. AWOLs have skyrocketed. And, guess who is going to be sent to Afghanistan? Think about it.

Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?

Posted By Tom Engelhardt

November 8, 2009

http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2009/11/08/who-will-be-sent-to-afghanistan/

Expect more of this.

Washington – The FBI and the Army on Sunday were investigating whether the military psychiatrist suspected in the Ft. Hood shooting rampage had an association with militants at a mosque in Virginia or in cyberspace. (Snip) In recent days, authorities poring over Hasan’s computer, Internet records and multiple e-mail accounts have found evidence that he visited other radical Islamist websites with some frequency, according to several officials familiar with the investigation.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fort-hood-probe9-2009nov09,0,5487900.story

My question is why “Duane” and other Muslims (and any others) who call for the overthrow of our government aren’t jailed or deported? Isn’t it treasonous to call for the overthrow of the USA? If there had been any question of my patriotism, I’d have never been hired at either of the positions referenced.

I have been wondering this same thing.