Sand Niggers

As reported in The Boston Globe 11/14/08, Benjamin Emanuel, father of Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, told an Israeli newspaper that obviously his son would influence Obama to be pro-Israel, "Why wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to be mopping floors at the White House!" Rahm Emanuel served in the Israeli army, and his father Benjamin was in the Irgun, a Jewish terrorist group.

Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documents some of the activities of the Irgun in his 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. In March 1948, Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion and ten others devised a plan for the systematic expulsion of native Palestinians from the land where these Arabs had lived for 1300 years. The terrorist group Irgun played a major role in this plan which involved bombarding Arab villages and villagers, burning and demolishing homes, planting mines, carrying out massacres, mass murder of innocent civilians, torture, throwing bombs into crowds, shooting villagers in their beds at night, blowing up inhabited houses at night, destroying crops, olive groves, citrus groves, etc. The idea was not only to terrorize the population but also to incite a desire for retaliation so as to provide an excuse for even greater violence in a situation characterized by a huge mismatch of power. Thousands of Arabs died and in six months there were 800,000 Palestinian refugees. The native Palestinians had no chance.

If Americans had been informed about this ethnic cleansing, 9/11 would not have been a surprise. However, the Israel Lobby-dominated media has prevented this truth from coming out, as journalists such as Robert Fisk well know. In his book The Great War for Civilisation, Fisk complains that one of the most depressing experiences in his long career has been trying to report on the unjust displacement of the Palestinians. He writes, "those of us who witnessed Israel's killing of civilians were to be abused as liars, anti-Semites, or friends of 'terrorism.' " (p. 378) Jewish terrorism was never allowed to be called terrorism.

Zionists not only cover up Jewish terrorism against Palestinians but also traditionally have treated the native Palestinians the way white racists have treated the blacks. Indeed, in an article "Among the Settlers. Will they destroy Israel?" (The New Yorker 5/31/2004), Jeffrey Goldberg reports that across the door of a closed Palestinian shop in the West Bank is written "Arabs Are Sand Niggers." Presumably they are expected to mop the floors.

The World Waits

Before 9/11, Israel was the most hated country in the world. This is understandable considering Israel's longstanding brutal occupation of Palestine which followed its 1948 ethnic cleansing of native Palestinians. West Bank Palestinians now live in apartheid conditions in which rabid Jewish "settlers" pillage and murder at will. No wonder, as stated in The 9/11 Commission Report, p.147, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, based his hated of America on our biased support of Israel. Osama bin Laden also listed US sponsorship of the Israeli occupation as one of his three reasons for anti-US hatred leading to 9/11. The other two reasons, US troops in Saudi Arabia and the deadly sanctions imposed on Iraq, no longer exist. Yet after 9/11, America engendered more anti-US hatred by effectively morphing into Israel: invading, trashing, and occupying Muslim lands. Now it is the US which is the most hated country in the world. Like Israel, we bomb innocent civilians thus creating more terrorists in the process.

A July 29, 2008 Rand report noted that our so-called War on Terror has been a failure. "Al Qaida has been involved in more terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, than it was during its prior history and the group's attacks since then have spanned an increasingly broader range of targets in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa..." The Rand Study found that most terrorist groups end by joining the political process or by being eliminated through police and intelligence efforts, not by military force. Surely the Bush administration has been dominated by war-mongering neocons, and thus it has often been said that the American people are good, it is just our government which is bad. Now the world is hoping that the election of Barack Obama will bring about change consistent with true American values. The US plans to withdraw from Iraq, and there is now talk of negotiations towards peace with the Taliban. However, it must be recognized that not only must US/foreign troops be removed from Iraq and Afghanistan, more important is ending the root cause of anti-American hatred and terrorism, namely the Israeli occupation. Barack Obama has promised that Israeli/Arab peace will be a major goal from the start of his administration. The world waits.