ZGram - 7/31/2002 - "On The Defensive At Last"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

July 31, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This morning I woke up to another Charley Reese column that says it 
all - and more!  Enjoy!

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On The Defensive At Last

It's good to see that the Israelis are finally on the defensive in 
their long-running propaganda war. Fewer and fewer people are buying 
the absurd notion that one of the world's great military powers is 
"the victim" of unarmed Palestinians.

Dropping a 1-ton bomb on one of the most densely populated urban 
areas in the world and then professing to be surprised that civilians 
were killed flew like a lead bird in Europe and the rest of the 
world. Even President Bush, as weak-kneed and muddle-headed as he is 
on the Middle East, expressed great annoyance.

Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, who was already boasting that 
it was one of Israel's most successful operations, had to do a quick 
bit of backpedaling when a hurricane of criticism fell on his 
country. The truth is that Israel's blatant, racist and contemptuous 
attitude toward Palestinian lives is showing through its cloak of 
incessant propaganda.

It was hard not to vomit when watching the Israeli consul general in 
New York piously proclaim how Israel tries to avoid civilian deaths. 
If that were so, how come more than 80 percent of all the 
Palestinians killed in the past two years were civilians, many of 
them women and children? If the Israelis are so concerned about 
Palestinian life, then why have they committed so many heinous acts 
of cruelty against Palestinian civilians, like locking them down in 
their homes, stealing their land and refusing to allow them to get to 
hospitals? How come an Israeli settler who beat a 10-year-old 
Palestinian boy to death received as a sentence a fine and community 
service?

Unfortunately for the Israelis, the video camera and satellite 
communications have allowed the world to see their thuggish 
brutality. The Israelis have no choice but to keep on lying, since 
the truth is on the side of the Palestinians.

Israel occupies Palestinian land. No Palestinian occupies Israeli territory.

Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world. The 
Palestinians have no army at all.

Israel stands in open defiance of more than 60 United Nations 
resolutions. The Palestinians violated none of them.

The greatest concession in modern history was made in 1993 when the 
Palestinians agreed to accept the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem 
in return for peace. In actuality, the Zionists have no valid claim 
to any of Palestine. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 was simply the 
last act of colonialist Europe taking other people's land away from 
them. Even so, the Israelis refuse to withdraw to their 1967 borders.

At last, some American Jews are beginning to speak out and demand 
that Israel withdraw to its 1967 borders and dismantle the Jewish 
settlements. They have seen that the hard-nosed Zionists in Israel 
are making a mockery of Jewish idealism.

The power of Israeli propaganda is still illustrated, at least in 
America, by the fact that no one in the administration even 
questioned Israel's assumed right to assassinate anyone it deems a 
political enemy. The man they killed, along with the civilians, was 
once in an Israeli prison, and the Israelis let him go. Why didn't 
they just arrest him again? Why did they decide that a 1-ton bomb 
dropped from an American-made F-16 was the proper tool for taking out 
one man in an apartment complex?

The answer is that they are drunk on their military power and are 
corrupted by their racist attitudes and by the weakness of the 
American political and media establishments. The Israelis think they 
can do anything to anybody anywhere and get away with it.

I think they have finally crossed a bridge too far.

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(Source:  http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20020731/index.php )