Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2003-01-06 Thread Prudy L
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The Jews will do what THEY deem necessary without advice from the likes of you.


You bet they will. The best word is still rapacious. Prudy
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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2003-01-02 Thread Nurev Ind
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At 04:49 PM 1/1/03 -0500, you wrote:
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The Jews will do what THEY deem
necessary without advice from the likes of you.
But with HER money...
Not true. But even if it were, she AND YOU can stop paying taxes.
I personally don't like MY tax money going to support Arab
Dictatorships.
Joshua2


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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2003-01-01 Thread Nurev Ind
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At 07:17 PM 12/29/02 -0500, you wrote:
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In a message dated 12/29/2002 3:15:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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 Why is Israel the only country ever asked to return land it
 wins?
Many other countries have returned land they won. Some have even
created new countries with the land they won but did not keep--Britain
which took Kuwait from Iraq and then gave it independence with an
appointed leadership. 
Yes, yes. Prudy. 
They created a puppet state instead of direct control.
The United States took
Okinawa during WWII, and even though Okinawa should have been given
independence, gave it back to Japan which had conquered it
previously. 
Yes, yes Prudy. They gave it back to Japan because they controlled Japan
militarily.
Israel could be
magnanimous and give land to the Palestinians without breaking a
planetary precedent, but I can assure you that Israel will never do
that. 
I can assure you of that as well. But not because they are rapacious.
It's a question of security.
None of your idiotic examples are valid. None of the above had lands
adjacent to their border.
These were all far away.
For Israel to intentionally create an enemy state on its border where it
is only 9 miles wide is
insane. 
I think the word
rapacious describes Israel rather well.
Prudy
Let's see you start a movement to give back the Southwest America stole
from Mexico thru
war.
Let's see you start a movement to return Hawaii to its natives who STILL
WANT IT BACK,
before you stick your hypocritical nose into other people's survival
issues you goddamned phony hypocrite.
Clean up your own backyard first.
The Jews will do what THEY deem necessary without advice from the likes
of you.
J2


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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2003-01-01 Thread William Shannon
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In a message dated 1/1/2003 3:32:13 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

The Jews will do what THEY deem necessary without advice from the likes of you.


But with HER money...

Bill.
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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2002-12-30 Thread flw
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 At any rate I think you are wrong - Pretty much everyone knows that there
 will be a Palestinian state, now its about  a) what form it will have, b)
 who will be in control, and what that means to the region, and c) how
much
 profit can be squeezed out of current situation by all parties in
question -
 so it's pretty much politics as usual - Same as anywhere

If only that were so. The fanatic Sharonites never want to see a
Palestinians state. Their goal is to eliminate the Palestinian people
from the W Bank and Gaza. Although I doubt this will happen (but
cannot be completely dismissed) these fanatic racists might very
well bestow untold suffering to both the Palestinian and Israeli
poeple.

Ironically the racist fanaticism of the Sharonites, in the long term,
will probably result in the end of Israel as a 'Jewish' state and
demographics will force it to evolve into a secular mutli ethnic
religious state - this will probably be all for the good.
flw

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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2002-12-30 Thread Prudy L
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In a message dated 12/29/2002 9:34:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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 You find what it did with Kuwait noble, but you find what the British did
 with Palestine horrific.

 At any rate I think you are wrong - Pretty much everyone
 knows that there
 will be a Palestinian state,

I don't think anything about the Kuwait issue to be noble, and I don't think there 
will ever be a Palestinian state unless Israel names one in memory of the Palestinians 
who will be long gone.  Prudy

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[CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2002-12-29 Thread William Shannon
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Liberating America From Israel 
by Paul Findley

Nine-eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused to help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express this conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth. I believe the catastrophe could have been prevented if any U.S. president during the past 35 years had had the courage and wisdom to suspend all U.S. aid until Israel withdrew from the Arab land seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The U.S. lobby for Israel is powerful and intimidating, but any determined president-even President Bush this very day-could prevail and win overwhelming public support for the suspension of aid by laying these facts before the American people: 

Israel's present government, like its predecessors, is determined to annex the West Bank-biblical Judea and Samaria - so Israel will become Greater Israel. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who maintain a powerful role in Israeli politics, believe the Jewish Messiah will not come until Greater Israel is a reality. Although a minority in Israel, they are committed, aggressive, and influential. Because of deep religious conviction, they are determined to prevent Palestinians from gaining statehood on any part of the West Bank. 

In its violent assaults on Palestinians, Israel uses the pretext of eradicating terrorism, but its forces are actually engaged advancing the territorial expansion just cited. Under the guise of anti-terrorism, Israeli forces treat Palestinians worse than cattle. With due process nowhere to be found, hundreds are detained for long periods and most are tortured. Some are assassinated. Homes, orchards, and business places are destroyed. Entire cities are kept under intermittent curfew, some confinements lasting for weeks. Injured or ill Palestinians needing emergency medical care are routinely held at checkpoints for an hour or more. Many children are undernourished. The West Bank and Gaza have become giant concentration camps. None of this could have occurred without U.S. support. Perhaps Israeli officials believe life will become so unbearable that most Palestinians will eventually leave their ancestral homes.

Once beloved worldwide, the U.S. government finds itself reviled in most countries because it provides unconditional support of Israeli violations of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the precepts of all major religious faiths.

How did the American people get into this fix?

Nine-eleven had its principal origin 35 years ago when Israel's U.S. lobby began its unbroken success in stifling debate about the proper U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict and effectively concealed from public awareness the fact that the U.S. government gives massive uncritical support to Israel.

Thanks to the suffocating influence of Israel's U.S. lobby, open discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been non-existent in our government all these years. I have firsthand knowledge, because I was a member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee in June 1967 when Israeli military forces took control of the Golan Heights, a part of Syria, as well as the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. I continued as a member for 16 years and to this day maintain a close watch on Congress.

For 35 years, not a word has been expressed in that committee or in either chamber of Congress that deserves to be called debate on Middle East policy. No restrictive or limiting amendments on aid to Israel have been offered for 20 years, and none of the few offered in previous years received more than a handful of votes. On Capitol Hill, criticism of Israel, even in private conversation, is all but forbidden, treated as downright unpatriotic, if not anti-Semitic. The continued absence of free speech was assured when those few who spoke out-Senators Adlai Stevenson and Charles Percy, and Reps. Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard, and myself-were defeated at the polls by candidates heavily financed by pro-Israel forces.

As a result, legislation dealing with the Middle East has been heavily biased in favor of Israel and against Palestinians and other Arabs year after year. Home constituencies, misled by news coverage equally lop-sided in Israel's favor, remain largely unaware that Congress behaves as if it were a subcommittee of the Israeli parliament.

However, the bias is widely noted beyond America, where most news media candidly cover Israel's conquest and generally excoriate America's complicity and complacency. When President Bush welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, sometimes called the Butcher of Beirut, as "my dear friend" and "a man of peace" after Israeli forces, using U.S.-donated arms, completed their devastation of the West Bank last spring, worldwide anger against American policy reached the boiling point.

The fury should surprise no one who reads foreign newspapers or listens to BBC. In 

Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2002-12-29 Thread thew
Title: Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel
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As long as we have troops in the Islamic holy land  Saudi Arabia, 9/11 would have happened Israel or not.

Can someone explain to my, when the Arabs started the 67 war, and lost it, Israel should give the land back  the Arabs were both the aggressors and the losers  why should Israel be punished for that?

Why is Israel the only country ever asked to return land it wins?


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Nine-eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused to help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express this conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth. I believe the catastrophe could have been prevented if any U.S. president during the past 35 years had had the courage and wisdom to suspend all U.S. aid until Israel withdrew from the Arab land seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.


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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2002-12-29 Thread Prudy L
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In a message dated 12/29/2002 3:15:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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 Why is Israel the only country ever asked to return land it
 wins?

Many other countries have returned land they won.  Some have even created new 
countries with the land they won but did not keep--Britain which took Kuwait from Iraq 
and then gave it independence with an appointed leadership.  The United States took 
Okinawa during WWII, and even though Okinawa should have been given independence, gave 
it back to Japan which had conquered it previously.  Israel could be magnanimous and 
give land to the Palestinians without breaking a planetary precedent, but I can assure 
you that Israel will never do that.  I think the word rapacious describes Israel 
rather well.  Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] Liberating America From Israel

2002-12-29 Thread thew
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Funny

You find what it did with Kuwait noble, but you find what the British did
with Palestine horrific.

At any rate I think you are wrong - Pretty much everyone knows that there
will be a Palestinian state, now its about  a) what form it will have, b)
who will be in control, and what that means to the region, and c) how much
profit can be squeezed out of current situation by all parties in question -
so it's pretty much politics as usual - Same as anywhere



on 12/29/02 7:17 PM, Prudy L at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Many other countries have returned land they won.  Some have even created new
 countries with the land they won but did not keep--Britain which took Kuwait
 from Iraq and then gave it independence with an appointed leadership.  The
 United States took Okinawa during WWII, and even though Okinawa should have
 been given independence, gave it back to Japan which had conquered it
 previously.  Israel could be magnanimous and give land to the Palestinians
 without breaking a planetary precedent, but I can assure you that Israel will
 never do that.  I think the word rapacious describes Israel rather well.
 Prudy

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[CTRL] LIBERATING AMERICA FROM ISRAEL

2002-09-11 Thread William Shannon
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=news_politicsNumber=219733page=0view=sb=o



LIBERATING AMERICA FROM ISRAEL 

By Paul Findley 

Nine-eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused to 
help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express this 
conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth. I believe the 
catastrophe could have been prevented if any U.S. president during the 
past 35 years had had the courage and wisdom to suspend all U.S. aid until 
Israel withdrew from the Arab land seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. 

The U.S. lobby for Israel is powerful and intimidating, but any 
determined president-even President Bush this very day-could prevail and 
win overwhelming public support for the suspension of aid by laying these 
facts before the American people: 

Israel's present government, like its predecessors, is determined 
to annex the West Bank-biblical Judea and Sumaria-so Israel will become 
Greater Israel. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who maintain a powerful role in 
Israeli politics, believe the Jewish Messiah will not come until Greater 
Israel is a reality. Although a minority in Israel, they are committed, 
aggressive, and inflluential. Because of deep religious conviction, they 
are determined to prevent Palestinians from gaining statehood on any part 
of the West Bank. 

In its violent assaults on Palestinians, Israel uses the pretext 
of eradicating terrorism, but its forces are actually engaged advancing 
the territorial expansion just cited. Under the guise of anti-terrorism, 
Israeli forces treat Palestinians worse than cattle. With due process 
nowhere to be found, hundreds are detained for long periods and most are 
tortured. Some are assassinated. Homes, orchards, and business places 
are destroyed. Entire cities are kept under intermittent curfew, some 
confinements lasting for weeks. Injured or ill Palestinians needing 
emergency medical care are routinely held at checkpoints for an hour or 
more. Many children are undernourished. The West Bank and Gaza have 
become giant concentration camps. None of this could have occurred 
without U.S. support. Perhaps Israeli officials believe life will become 
so unbearable that most Palestinians will eventually leave their 
ancestral homes. 

Once beloved worldwide, the U.S. government finds itself reviled 
in most countries because it provides unconditional support of Israeli 
violations of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the 
precepts of all major religious faiths. 

How did the American people get into this fix? 

Nine-eleven had its principal origin 35 years ago when Israel's 
U.S. lobby began its unbroken success in stifling debate about the proper 
U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict and effectively concealed from 
public awareness the fact that the U.S. government gives massive 
uncritical support to Israel. 

Thanks to the suffocating influence of Israel's U.S. lobby, open 
discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been non-existent in our 
government all these years. I have firsthand knowledge, because I was a 
member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee in June 
1967 when Israeli military forces took control of the Golan Heights, a 
part of Syria, as well as the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. I 
continued as a member for 16 years and to this day maintain a close watch 
on Congress. 

For 35 years, not a word has been expressed in that committee or 
in either chamber of Congress that deserves to be called debate on Middle 
East policy. No restrictive or limiting amendments on aid to Israel have 
been offered for 20 years, and none of the few offered in previous years 
received more than a handful of votes. On Capitol Hill, criticism of 
Israel, even in private conversation, is all but forbidden, treated as 
downright unpatriotic, if not anti-Semitic. The continued absence of 
free speech was assured when those few who spoke out-Senators Adlai 
Stevenson and Charles Percy, and Reps. Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Cynthia 
McKinney, Earl Hilliard, and myself-were defeated at the polls by 
candidates heavily financed by pro-Israel forces. 

As a result, legislation dealing with the Middle East has been 
heavily biased in favor of Israel and against Palestinians and other 
Arabs year after year. Home constituencies, misled by news coverage 
equally lop-sided in Israel's favor, remain largely unaware that Congress 
behaves as if it were a subcommittee of the Israeli parliament. 

However, the bias is widely noted beyond America, where most news 
media candidly cover Israel's conquest and generally excoriate America's 
complicity and complacency. When President Bush welcomed Israeli Prime 
Minister Ariel Sharon, sometimes called the Butcher of Beirut, as "my 
dear friend" and "a man of peace" after Israeli forces, using 
U.S.-donated arms, completed their devastation of the West Bank last 
spring, worldwide anger against American