Fear of the NYC Terror trial

The Israel Lobby is terrified of the upcoming NYC trial of 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). They fear their stranglehold on the US media could be loosened as the trial may give the terrorists a media platform.

Indeed, KSM has said that the purpose of the 9/11 attacks was to "wake the American people up." As part of his original 9/11 plan, KSM was going to land one of the planes here and then "deliver a speech condemning American policy on Israel." (The New York Times 9/15/09)

The Israel Lobby certainly does not want their persecutions and war crimes against the Palestinians publicized. Worse, they do not want Americans to realize that because of our support for Israel's unjust policies, we are now a power in decline.

Before 9/11, we had a budget surplus and were poised to pay down the national debt. Now, after these unnecessary wars, we are deeply in debt to foreigners, owing more to China than to any other country, and the Israel Lobby is about to drag us into another unnecessary war as Israel plans to hit Iran. At that point the price of oil will go through the ozone layer, and our economy will plummet, this time irretrievably if no one will buy our bonds.

Of course the Israel Lobby cares not, since their loyalty lies elsewhere. Their only fear is that the truth will out.

The Lesson of Vietnam

Winston Churchill famously announced, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." As George Orwell noted, "those who control the past control the future." Thus currently history is being deviously re-written by neocons who falsely portray the Iraq invasion as an American triumph and the Vietnam War as a war which should have been won and would have been if properly fought.

This ignores the lesson of Vietnam which is that 58,000 Americans died unnecessarily. The Vietnam War, like the Iraq War, was unnecessary. Saddam Hussein was no threat to America and neither was Vietnam. Communist Vietnam is now our trading partner and a popular American tourist destination. The Cold War ended peacefully. Even Communist China is embracing capitalism in a gradual peaceful manner.

It is far better for regime change to come about through peaceful people power rather than through foreign invasions and the fomenting of bloody civil wars. Our forefathers warned against foreign entanglements, but here we are mired in Afghanistan.

Our mission in Afghanistan is supposed to be to target al Qaeda but there are only 100 al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and our military is calling for 100,000 troops. Our presence there is destabilizing Pakistan; the Pakistanis hate us, believing we're in cahoots with Israel and India to steal their nukes.

President Obama demands to know what our exit strategy is and to whom will we hand this off. A corrupt narcostate? We are supposed to spend billions training (and paying) the Afghans, who have been traditionally recognized to be ferocious fighters. Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski astutely points out that no one needs to train the Taliban!

We should leave Afghanistan and let President Karzai make peace with Taliban leader Mullah Omar as he has long wanted to do. There are increasing indications that the Taliban is willing to sever ties to al Qaeda. This war is unnecessary.

The Holocaust

Spies and members of underground resistance movements have been known to carry poison pills to pop if captured: hopeless endless torture is worse than a quick death. Similarly, the Gaza Holocaust is worse than the Nazi holocaust.

The Israelis sadistically torture the Gazans incarcerated in this Nazi death camp the way a cat tortures a mouse: tossing it up in the air, letting it momentarily escape only to pounce on it again, enjoying the creature's terrified squeals until it squeals no more. Israeli collective punishment in Gaza is designed to destroy body and soul. Dante's words apply: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here." At least some of the Nazis' inmates were eventually rescued by the Allied forces.

Gaza's only hope would be a peace settlement, but this is anathema to Netanyahu whose settlement expansion policy is consistent with his Likud Party's charter opposing a Palestinian state. A peace settlement would also end our involvement in these Wars for the Jewish Settlers (ie Iraq and Afghanistan) since, after all, 9/11 was motivated by our biased support of Israel and its illegal occupations. However, just as the Nazis loved to steal Jewish assets and businesses, the Israelis love to steal the Palestinian land, water resources and livelihoods, especially the super-profitable Holy Land tourist trade.

One has only to view Gaza today to see the Zionist devastation. Because one Israeli soldier was captured, (the Israelis hold over 8000 political prisoners including 390 children mostly alleged to have thrown stones), and because a small number of Israelis (less than 30 in the past 8 years) were killed by rockets from Gaza, the Israelis conducted a blitzkrieg against 1.5 million prisoners in overcrowded little Gaza. During this Reign of Terror from December 27 to January 18, 2009, Israeli war crimes were rampant, as documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Breaking the Silence, (an Israeli veterans group), and the UN Goldstone Report.

The Israelis bulldozed and intentionally bombed farms, poultry, orchards, food factories, water wells, sewerage facilities, hospitals, civilian shelters, schools containing students, thousands of houses, (later vandalized), mosques during prayers, ambulances, UN facilities, and other civilian infrastructure. The aim was to make life for Gazans unlivable forever,and it was followed by a tightening of the blockade to prevent rebuilding.

Heavy artillery and missiles from drones were used against civilians along with white phosphorous, which produces excruciating deadly burns. For instance, civilians, forced by Israeli soldiers into a house, died when the house was then shelled. Children looking out of the windows of their houses were shot. Women and children waving white flags in plain view and posing no threat were shot to death. Israelis shelled the main UN compound which was sheltering 700 civilians even though UN officials were communicating to Israelis at the time. Israelis prevented the wounded from receiving treatment. Over 1400 Palestinians died, including 252 children under 16. Ten Israeli soldiers died, including four who were shot by the Israelis themselves.

Meanwhile our Gaza Holocaust-denying Congressional whores keep turning tricks for their Israel Lobby Johns, dutifully passing every resolution the Israel Lobby writes, most recently one condemning the Goldstone report, naturally. Congress bankrupts the country by funding all the Wars for the Jewish Settlers so as to keep their Israel Lobby-generated campaign funds flowing. It is this obscene corrupted version of democracy which we so blithely try to spread around the world at gunpoint, and it's hardly surprising that no one wants it. We have thus far successfully inspired notoriously corrupt governments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just as the illegal Israeli occupations generated suicide terrorists, so our non-stop occupations have generated a suicide epidemic in our young soldiers: 16 in October, bringing the year's total at the end of October to 134, poised to break last year's record of 140. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.