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4.14.02
Why #1Terrorist Bush CAN'T/WON'T EVER Prevent ZioNazi Sharon's Massacres
-- 'Meanwhile, U.S. President Bush, fully engulfed in justifying his
own sanctioned U.S. killings of thousands of innocent Afghan civilians
in his "war against terror," chooses to see only Sharon's side of the
"self-defense" equation by placing full blame of this horrendous
situation squarely on the shoulders of Arafat. ...
...'To question Sharon's violent military response to supposedly
"unprovoked" yet nonetheless inexcusable terrorist acts would be to
delegitimize America's own shower of death rained down upon innocent
Afghans in our hunt for Osama who quite suddenly no longer appears to be
a concern.' -- Doreen Miller
EXACTLY! Doreen Miller NAILS it right on the button, regarding the
points we've focused on here AND many others.
Worth reading in full!
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Excerpt from: A Tale Of Two Warring Tribes
http://www.yellowtimes.org
http://rense.com/general24/taleoftwowarring.htm
By Doreen Miller
YellowTimes.org
...For the past thirty-seven years, the Palestinian people have suffered
occupation, humiliation, and human rights abuses at the hands of the
Israelis. They have seen their homes and businesses expropriated, their
lands seized and built up with illegal Israeli settlements, their
mosques burned, and their holy places desecrated.
They have been held hostage and prisoners in their own land, denied
freedom of movement and self-autonomy by a ruling power that has
defiantly ignored and blatantly disobeyed UN resolutions handed down
since 1967 that address the occupied territories and the proper
treatment of Palestinians.
As a people who have lost all sense of moral leadership and direction,
the Palestinians, in turn, have chosen to sink to the level of their
oppressors by essentially handing over their sons and daughters to the
influence of extremist militant groups where they are sacrificed on the
altar of "martyrdom" by means of the despicable crime of suicide
bombings.
They may have mistakenly hoped to subdue their sense of despair, anguish
and misery in the form of "due justice" and "wake-up calls" to
unsuspecting, innocent Israeli civilians.
Unfortunately, this myopic approach neglects to take into account that
like begets like and that the use of violence can only breed more of the
same. Rather than awakening the common Israeli to champion their cause,
that of liberation, they have instead initiated a whole new cycle of
retaliatory killing and violence and are now reaping the wrath of a
powerful, merciless U.S. supported Israeli army.
In the past 18 months, Israelis have killed more than 1,200
Palestinians, including over 120 paramedics. They have savagely attacked
and sacrilegiously ravished Palestinian refugee camps, places that by
their very definition are meant to provide safe haven for a persecuted
people.
In their reign of terror, Israeli soldiers blew up electric transmission
lines in these camps - cutting off electricity to over 20,000 civilians
- deliberately destroyed drinking water supply lines and rooftop water
tanks, forcefully entered households, wantonly smashed furniture and
property, and even used the inhabitants of these camps - mostly women,
children, and elderly - as human shields.
There have been reports that Israeli soldiers stormed and ransacked
Ramallah's Arab Care Hospital terrorizing patients there. A Dutch
volunteer paramedic, shocked in disbelief at what he witnessed, equated
their actions to Nazi war crimes. Other reliable foreign press releases
report how Israeli soldiers have blocked emergency medical vehicles from
reaching and treating the wounded, even to the point of arresting five
emergency service drivers.
The prevailing Israeli attitude of "take no prisoners" has lead to the
capture and summary, Nazi-style execution of ordinary Palestinian police
officers as well as members of Arafat's elite guard found within his
compound. They have even gone so far as to shoot at international peace
demonstrators, wounding seven. All of the aforementioned actions by
Israeli soldiers constitute an unequivocal perpetration of war crimes
under international law.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Bush, fully engulfed in justifying his own
sanctioned U.S. killings of thousands of innocent Afghan civilians in
his "war against terror," chooses to see only Sharon's side of the
"self-defense" equation by placing full blame of this horrendous
situation squarely on the shoulders of Arafat.
Bush remains uncommitted to attempting to fully understand and recognize
the connection of the recently intensified suicide missions to the
unbearably inhumane and long-term "imprisonment" and demoralizing
subjugation of the Palestinian people by Israel.
His demonization of Arafat and the Palestinians is most likely an
attempt to hide the fact that U.S. weapons ($2 billion annually)
supplied to Israel are being used against an oppressed and, for the most
part, defenseless people.
To question Sharon's violent military response to supposedly
"unprovoked" yet nonetheless inexcusable terrorist acts would be to
delegitimize America,s own shower of death rained down upon innocent
Afghans in our hunt for Osama who quite suddenly no longer appears to be
a concern.
To suggest that Arafat is somehow directly giving orders to carry out
these bombing missions in order to undermine the peace process is
ludicrous. Those who utter such an allegation are in total denial of the
fact that he has become, in reality, a powerless leader.
He has proven himself unable to control or stop the fundamentalist
groups responsible for these suicide bombing missions which seem to have
taken on a life of their own ever since Sharon stopped the peace
negotiations in 2001 and began trying to cow the Palestinians into
submission through the use of violent military tactics. Even if Israel
were to find a way to carry out their proposal to exile Arafat, they
would find the violence against them unabated.
Seeking to place blame on one side or the other is absolutely fruitless
at this point. Both share equally in the culpability for the senseless
bloodshed and wanton destruction of lives and property committed by one
against the other.
It is obvious these two tribes of Abraham are so deeply mired in their
hatred for one another that they could never be able to reach any form
of compromise for peaceful coexistence on their own. Some sort of
non-partisan, parental authority figure needs to step in, separate these
adolescent, warring children, and teach them how to tolerate and respect
one another as dignified human beings with equal rights.
What is needed is an international UN peacekeeping force, culled from a
wide variety of nations, that would occupy both countries, secure law
and order, and reestablish some semblance of normalcy and sanity.
This presence should remain as long as necessary until a final and
definitive peace plan - one that recognizes the rights of both
Palestinians and Israelis to form self-autonomous countries with
well-defined, respected borders - has been worked out and proven itself
to be successfully implemented. Only then will the Middle East finally
attain its presently elusive, yet long-desired peace.
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