The 9/11/Gaza Cover-up

After 9/11, NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani refused a $10 million donation to World Trade Center victims' families because the Saudi prince donor planned to tell the American people the truth about the cause of anti-American hatred. Indeed, TV talk show hosts and print journalists have lost their jobs for daring to speak the truth. And one has to really dig in the 567 pages of The 9/11 Commission Report to discover (page 147) that the mastermind of 9/11 said he hated us because of our pro-Israeli foreign policy.

Similarly, the truth of the American-supported illegal and inhumane Israeli policies in Palestine is covered-up in the current reporting and media discussion of events in Gaza. We are led to believe by the Israel Lobby-dominated media that "righteous democratic" Israel was just sitting there innocently minding its own business when rockets came sailing over the wall "for no reason," as the Israeli president told us on ABC's "This Week" yesterday.

The neocon Israel Lobby narrative always begins with the rockets and not with the ethnic cleansing, occupation, apartheid policies, targeted assassinations, expanding settlements, continuing confiscation of Arab land, and incarceration in Gaza of 1.5 million people lacking vital necessities due to a long-standing economic blockade. These people can have no hope of the unified economically viable Palestinian state to which they have been entitled for 60 years if greedy Israel continues to have its way.

There is no cover-up in the rest of the world, however. The Arab media, for instance, shows live unedited footage of mangled hacked-up bloodied bodies of bombed children imprisoned in the jail called Gaza. This is never to be seen on US TV which has been "sanitized." The Israel Lobby-dominated media also has censured the coverage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, and, of course, the lies and "fixed" intelligence which pushed us into the unnecessary war with Iraq, fought on behalf of Israel, were also hidden from the American people.

Just as there were world-wide demonstrations against our invasion of Iraq, there are now world-wide anti-Israel and anti-US demonstrations protesting the US-supported Israeli bombing of the imprisoned starving Palestinians tragically trapped in Gaza. Blocking a UN ceasefire resolution, we give Israel a green light to continue its ethnic cleansing/genocide in Palestine. This is how Israel solves its "demographic" problem.