Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Israel (Zionistland) is Threat To World Peace

James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the
U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National
Security Course, National Defense University, Washington DC. He served
as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the
Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of
Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.
Israel's Threat To World Peace
by James J. David
(Wednesday 24 December 2003)
"Libya has never been a threat to the United States, and for that
matter, Iraq was never a threat to the United States. The only threat
Iraq or Libya posed was a threat to Israel's dominance of nuclear
weapons in the Middle East."
It seems that the entire world is praising American and British
diplomacy for its efforts in convincing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
in announcing that Libya would cease work on its programs to develop
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. This is quite an
accomplishment, considering that Libya has been listed for more than
17years by the U.S. State Department as one of the major countries
supporting state terrorism.
As wonderful as this news may be, the United States needs to
concentrate its efforts towards the real obstacle to world peace.
Libya was no threat to world peace, and neither was Iraq. If the
United States devotes as much effort in resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict as they did with Libya's weapons of mass
destruction then maybe the American people could rest a bit easier.
According to a recent poll by the Anti-Defamation League, forty-two
percent of the American people consider Israel as a threat to world
peace. What's even more astonishing is the result of a recent European
poll that found 59 percent of Europeans considered Israel as the major
threat to world peace with the United States coming in second. Libya
wasn't even mentioned.
Libya has never been a threat to the United States, and for that
matter, Iraq was never a threat to the United States. The only threat
Iraq or Libya posed was a threat to Israel's dominance of nuclear
weapons in the Middle East.
While Iraq failed to obey one UN resolution fast enough, Israel has
steadfastly refused to obey not just one UN resolution, but an
incredible 69 UN resolutions. Israel's actions have brought outrage
from a majority of the UN's member states on 69 separate occasions.
They have condemned Israel for the destruction of Arab villages, for
the murder of innocent women and children, for making war on
neighboring states, for refusing to withdraw from invaded and occupied
territory, for killing protesting students, for killing civilians
protesting being expelled from their homes, for a transcontinental
bombing raid against Tunisia, and for dozens of other violations. And
on 29 other occasions, UN resolutions with real teeth in them, calling
for Israel to withdraw from stolen land and allow self-determination
for the Palestinian people among other things, would have been adopted
but were vetoed by the one dissenting vote of the United States. When
it comes to the exercising of any kind of real power against those who
violate UN resolutions, it seems that some countries are "more equal
than others." Israel gets away not only with an expansionist foreign
policy, but with repeatedly and endlessly violating the most
elementary human rights of her subject peoples. Although Israel's PR
men would have us believe that Israel is an island of Western values
in the Middle East, the truth is quite the opposite. Not only does
Israel violate the most fundalmental human rights laws but Israel is
also guilty of assassination, kidnapping, expulsion, detention without
charges or trial, land confiscation, and collective punishment - not
to mention Israel's long-standing practice of espionage against the
United States, its principal benefactor and the attack on the USS
Liberty that killed 34 American sailors and injured another 171.
Hardly a day goes by without the Israelis killing innocent Palestinian
men, women, and children. Today they killed 8 Palestinians and wounded
an estimated 300. Three days ago they killed a 6-year-old Palestinain
boy just hours before a 13-year-old Palestinian boy died from a
gunshot to his head. Twenty Palestinians have been killed in the past
two weeks even though there hasn't been even one suicide bombing in
over two months. And just last week the Israelis shot and killed a
21-year-old pregnant Palestinian mother trying to take her young son
to the hospital. The Israelis have killed more than 500 women and
children in the past 3 years. They have demolished more than 3000
Palestinian homes, causing more than 17,000 homeless, including 2300
children.
These stories never make the Headline News or the front pages of your
local newspapers. You don't see President Bush or Condoleezza Rice out
on the front lawn of the White House condemning the Israelis for
killing innocent men, women, and especially children. The United
States talks about a balanced Middle East Policy but just look at what
we actually practice. We have one standard for the treatment of
Israelis that is so high they cannot be criticized no matter what
grisly crimes they commit. Then we have a second standard for the
treatment of Palestinians that is so low we publicly finance their
ethnic cleansing and torture.
President Bush may refer to Israeli policies as obstacles to peace but
when it comes time for a vote in the U.N. Security Council on the
illegal settlements, or the apartheid wall, or on assassinations, or
any of the other Israeli criminal acts, the United States vetoes every
move to condemn Israeli aggression. The United States could not even
bring itself to condemn the Qana Lebanese refugee camp massacre of
1996 in which 103 innocent Lebanese civilians were killed. Is it any
wonder the Arab world hates us? Is it any wonder America was attacked?
How can the United States strive for world peace when Israel is
allowed to do whatever it pleases? Supporting Israel may be
politically correct, but the more we look the other way, the more
violence there will be. American politicians jump on the Zionist
bandwagon simply because they know that is where the power is. The
Jewish Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Lobby and Jewish interest
groups have effectively silenced any politician who is critical to
Israeli policy.
Is the Israeli lobby and the Jewish control of our American
politicians so powerful that our elected officials have lost all sense
of moral right? Evidently, former President Jimmy Carter thought so
when he was prompted to say, after he left office of course, that no
politician dared to oppose its demands, because to do so would be
"political suicide." They take our money, we fight and die in their
wars, and, since both political parties are in their pocket, the
American people don't have any choice in the matter. Sheilding Israel
is an international embarrassment and places U.S. citizens in danger
around the world, let alone danger to our own nation. It is time for
the American people to face the fact that supporting Israel's criminal
activities is the greatest threat facing America today. Disguising
America's threat with anything else is nothing more than political
spin and a decoy used as a means of savings one's career. Placing the
blame on Israel would end one's political career.
The recent decision by Libya to abandon its weapons of mass
destruction is just one step towards world peace. The bigger step
would be for Israel to do the same. It is time for the United States
to free itself from the grips of the Jewish lobby and to take a stand
on the side of human mankind. It is time to use our foreign aid as
leverage and to insist on Israel to abandon its weapons of mass
destruction and to abide by International Law. It is time we stop
fooling the American people. It is time to get tough with Israel.
After all, Israel is the biggest threat to world peace.
K
--
The best way to end Terrorism, is to stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky

 James J. David is a retired Brigadier General
E se lo dice lui...
Fortuna che il Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite non la pensa
come lui.
-Stefano