uruknet.info, Italy
June 2 2007
Corporate Media Blames Victims in Palestine
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
June 1, 2007
If we are to believe "experts" quoted by United Press International,
the "radicalization of Palestinians" has little to do with Israeli
brutality over the span of more than two generations. It is all about
"violence as a model created by bin Ladenism," never mind the
Palestinians resisted Israeli occupation when Osama was a glint in
Muhammad bin Laden’s eye, well before the elder Bin Laden migrated
from Al-Rubat to Saudi Arabia.
"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:
Moreover, a crime against humanity is the direct historical and legal
precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the
1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide. The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to
the Jewish People required a special international treaty that would
codify and universalize the Nuremberg concept of "crime against
humanity." And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide
Convention.
In fairness, you will note that the U.N. Human Rights Commission did
not go so far as to condemn Israel for committing genocide against
the Palestinian People. But it has condemned Israel for committing
crimes against humanity, which is the direct precursor to genocide.
And I submit that if something is not done quite soon by the American
People and the International Community to stop Israeli war crimes and
crimes against humanity against the Palestinian People, it could very
well degenerate into genocide, if Israel is not there already. And in
this regard, [former and currently comatose] Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon is what international lawyers call a genocidaire – one who
has already committed genocide in the past.
"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.
This kind of genocidal hatred of Palestinians is not unusual in
Israel. What used to be unusual was for it to be spoken so brazenly
and openly. Of course we know what would happen if a Muslim or
Palestinian religious figure made such a statement. We know the
international outcry when Iran’s President Ahmadinejad allegedly made
statements calling for the elimination of Israel. Will all those EU
officials who curried favor by condemning Ahmedinejad take an equally
strong and public stance against Israel’s former chief rabbi? Will
they demand that Olmert publicly repudiate the letter he received?
A Muslim making such statements about Jews would certainly be
banished from traveling to the United States, and could end up in
Guantánamo for much less.
Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide adopted in the wake of the Nazi holocaust, "Direct and
public incitement to commit genocide" is a punishable act. One
wonders whether the UN Security Council, which created an
international tribunal to investigate the killing of one man in
Lebanon, will pay any attention to the indiscriminate state- and
theocratically-sanctioned massacres of Palestinians by Israel.
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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