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Subject:PHARISEE WATCH: Answering Critics..
..About the Body Bombers
C. E. Carlson
Another military target, I thought. A bomber could blast this
place and hit nothing but soldiers and soldier girls, except for the
owner, the waitresses and me. I could vision the report from Ariel
Sharon's staff: "Suicide Terrorist Targets Innocent Israeli
Teenagers in Ashqelon Recreation Establishment." I was talking to a
Russian poolroom owner on March 6th in a strip shopping center in
seaside Ashqelon, who told me that almost all of his patrons were off
duty soldier boys and girls. "They are the only ones with money and
time." He said. But not one was in uniform.
You have just read a quote from my own article released on the
Internet on the afternoon of May 6, 2002. Many received it as a part
of "Intelligent Bombs vs. Smart Bombs"
(http://www.whtt.org/articles/020504.htm). It turned out to be an
unintended prophecy, for the next day, May 7, 2002, an Intelligent
Bomb blew up a mirror image pool hall/drinking/gambling establishment
near TelAviv.
The Truths About the Sheffield Club:
A large crowd of drinking and gambling patrons were attacked in the
Sheffield Club pool hall, 10 miles south of Tel Aviv in an industrial
district, by a lone Palestinian, who hand-ignited a suitcase bomb.
It is overwhelmingly likely that most of the patrons were off-duty
Israeli Defense Force personnel, but few Americans have been allowed
to know this.
This author was stunned at the first reports of the attack in the
American Press, because the site sounded so similar to the pool hall
I visited in March, about which I had written only 24 hours earlier,
that I thought it might be the same one! Just as I had surmised
while eating my midnight sandwich in that Ashqelon pool hall, the
Israeli propaganda machine tried its best to tell us this event was a
terrorist attack on innocent civilians.
The sterilized story of what did not happen was then broadcast and
legitimatized by the Israel-friendly US Press. The American press
and the Israeli press are both loyal to Israel and present the same
slant on Israeli-style justice. Both report deaths and injuries that
result from body bombers as "terrorism." But it would be
embarrassing if the dead were Israeli soldiers, for soldiers are paid
to be targets in wars even when out on the town.
Only rarely does an Israeli or American report ever state how many of
those killed and wounded were military and how many were civilians,
and names are almost always withheld. In the absence of such
information, we are expected to assume that all were civilians and
that the event was planned and carried out with the specific intent
to destroy the innocent. Don't we Americans assume that the
casualties were civilian, if we're not told otherwise?
It is not necessary for this author to guess whether some of those
bombed were military, because a close look at the propaganda itself
reveals the intent to deceive. One published photo of a victim being
carried out of the rubble from the Sheffield Club had the
unmistakable appearance of a 20-year-old male Israeli soldier with
his hair cut to about 1/4 inch, and though his face was clearly
visible, he was not identified. But no mention was made of any
Israeli military casualties, in or out of uniform. This is most
suspicious, because in the militarist state of Israel, off-duty
soldiers are seen wherever there is "fun" late at night.
But Israel almost never admits to the death of it own military in
bombing attacks. Instead, it portrays all bombings as terrorist acts
against civilians.
The Israeli propaganda machine, controlled by the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Defense Force, both have active
websites where all Palestinians are usually referred to
as "terrorists. Members of the Israel press, writers, relief
agencies, ambulance companies--all go along with the Foreign
Ministry's scheme...referring to all the killed and injured
as "people" or "Israelis", and nothing more. The Ministry's bombing
reports almost never mention the name, rank, job or position, sex or
physical description of the casualties.
This colorless "people" designation is reminiscent of Orwell in his
book, "1984", where his hero, Winton Smith, has a career creating
lies in the "Ministry of Truths". Smith's job was to make lying
safer by eliminating all color language, such as adjectives, so that
the official propagandists would be less likely to trip over their
words.
An example of Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs propaganda is a
piece from its website dated May 24, 2002. It states: "Reserve IDF
Sergeant First Class Oren Tzelnik, 23, of Bat Yam, was killed and two
soldiers wounded, when terrorists opened fire on their APC during a
counter-terrorist operation Friday in Tulkarm," and it references an
article in Haaretz. But the Haaretz article makes no mention of the
sergeant being killed by "terrorists." It reports that the deceased
was shot while on a military patrol into enemy or "terrorist
controlled" territory--in other words, killed in action by people who
were probably defending their homes in besieged Tulkarm during an
armed military operation. Haaretz suggested the deceased might have
fallen to his death while riding in an Armored Personnel carrier.
The Minister added the "terrorist" label for propaganda purposes,
with the intent to deceive.
Orwell could have been talking about Israel; it fits. "People" is
Orwellian jargon that covers all of the following: young men and
women, soldiers, out-of-uniform military personnel, waiters and
waitresses, bartenders, old men, late night drunks, tourists,
prostrates, drug runners, and an endless list of possible patrons of
the Sheffield Club. It is clearly a drinking and gambling saloon
catering to off-duty young Israeli military boys and girls, just like
the one I saw in action down the road in Ashqelon!
In view of George Orwell's excellent insight and Israel's desire to
confuse us, we shall henceforth refer to all the propaganda functions
of the Israeli government generically as the Ministry of Orwellian
Truth (MOT).
It is not easy to catch MOT in its lies, even when you know they are
doing it, because the Israeli press is even more state controlled
than our own. One hint that confirms my view of the Sheffield Club
bombing comes from an Associated Press writer in Israel named Jason
Keyser, who no doubt knows the rules of how to get along with MOT.
He wrote his story, which was printed worldwide, without interviewing
a single victim. Keyser followed the MOT protocol by referring to
everyone in the Sheffield Club as "people."
Fortunately for us, Mr. Keyser must have wanted to create a readable
story. He interviewed two persons who were said to be outside the
Sheffield Club when the blast occurred, and in doing so, he left a
clue as to who was really in the bustling hall of drinking, gambling
and sport. He interviewed an "off duty soldier" named Amit Elor, who
happened to be "just outside" when the bomb went off, and who
said, "all of a sudden WE heard this loud blast with noise. I went
in to help." It appears the soldier was not asked who was included
in "We." And, Mr. Kaiser may not have thought to ask the lone soldier
if any of his friends were hurt in the blast. Or if he did ask this
logical question, he did not print the answer.
We are supposed to believe all the people inside were civilians.
Picture, if you will, a gambling saloon, with one lone off-duty
soldier just outside the door at ll:03 PM. Ask any former American
GI if the story makes sense to him. Off-duty soldiers are found
where there is booze and fun. If there was one outside the door, you
can bet there were many more inside. Soldiers travel and play in
groups and crowds, not alone.
A close look at many reports from the MOT shows that the reports are
full of holes. This writer carefully examined all 60 official
Israeli Foreign Ministry bombing reports from April 6,1994 through
April 12, 2002. In those reports, the MOT reported a total of 180
killed, but only 10 of these were identified as military; 10 more
were identified as "civilians," and 7 were citizens of other
countries. That leaves 153 dead who were simply called "people" in
those reports. How convenient it is to add 15 more "people" to the
list from the Sheffield Club and let it be assumed that all were
innocent civilians. This consistently ambiguous manner of reporting
indicates deliberate deception.
Get your own bomber report at (www.walk4israel.org).
There is more that condemns the MOT as liars. On April 12 the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs absolutely contradicted local Haifa
telecasts and news reports about who was killed in an April 10 bus
bombing in Haifa. This bombing occurred at 4:51AM, an hour when few
would likely be up riding buses, except for the military, who would
probably be in uniform and carrying weapons, thus easy to recognize.
The local press on the scene reported that most of the killed and
wounded were "military." But the official MOT report said that
eight "people" were killed and 22 were injured." The MOT did not
call them civilians; it only implied it!
Two conclusions are obvious from these two bombings: first, both were
military targets, being troop concentrations; one was an off-duty
military hangout and the other was a military transport on its way to
a battle zone. Second, the official Israeli propaganda machine lied
in both cases about who was killed. These back-to-back bombing
distortions, call the entire Israeli propaganda machine into
question. If it lied about the bus bombing in Haifa and the bomb in
the Sheffield Club, why not everywhere?
The pattern of report warping continued on May 27, 2002 when the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs website told us a grandmother and an
infant were killed and 37 "civillians" were wounded in a bombing
outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva on Monday May 27. The
Ministry "linked" its brief report to the full story dated the same
day by Haaretz Daily. But the two stories are factually different
and contradict each other, so somebody is not telling the truth.
According to Haaretz Daily's story 44 "persons" were wounded, which
is not the same as "37 civillians." Who then are Ministry's
missing seven "persons?" The "Ministry of Truth" again appears to be
juggling the numbers to give the impression that the Bombers targeted
civilians. Could it be that seven soldiers were injured in the
blast?
Two days later, on May 29, the Ministry appears to have put pepper
on the trail by switching it's link to a story about the same event
written by the Jerusalem Post and containing a yet different number
of casualties from an unverifiable source, a female victim. It is
again likely there was a military target in the mall and unreported
military injuries. The pattern of deception is consistent, with
distortion of numbers to cover for probable military injuries.
While non-military persons are killed in Israel, as in every war, it
is clear from the targets chosen that the Intelligent Bombs targeted
concentrations of vulnerable military personnel in the vast majority
of the 61 raids we studied. But if the MOT admitted this, they would
have a tough time justifying the slaughter in Jenin, or the shooting
of defenseless school children for getting to close to a checkpoint
or acting "suspiciously." Over 400 Palestinian children have been
killed in the last l8 months--most were shot in the head or chest
with high power weapons. The Israel's own official reports of 60
body bombings list only seven children killed in eight years! That is
a ratio of 59 Palestinian children for every Israeli child killed!
This is no longer denied... it is simply justified!
The entire Israeli occupation hinges on painting the Intelligent
Bombs as "terrorists," which they are not when they target military.
The only reason many Americans support Israel's brutality in
Palestine is because of their misguided belief that the Body Bombers
deliberately target civilians. If Americans knew that the bombers
usually make heroic efforts to attack military troop concentrations,
some would not be so easily deceived into supporting the wanton
destruction of Palestinian civilians.
Does the Israeli "Ministry of Truth" ever tell the truth ? The
answer is yes, when the truth suits it purpose. The following report
seems to be true: "May 28: Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya'akov;
Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three
yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in
Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated
the community and opened fire on the teenagers on Tuesday night,
before he was shot dead." This report seems to be true.
The Palestine side of the story is that the "gunman" was also a youth
whose cousin and two friends were assassinated by a blast from an
Israeli tank less than a week ago in Palestinian cemetery. The boy
pledged retribution. It should also be noted that at the age of 19
all Israeli boys become soldiers, so two of those killed would have
soon been in the IDF. The gunman did not stop to "card" them before
shooting them. The man who killed the "gunman" was a teacher in the
active Israeli reserves, carrying a gun. War is not a one way street.
Our Readers Write:
A few, from concerned friends who think we are going too far in
presenting the Intelligent Bombers' side. William Rood is one who
wrote:" I did some reading on your site last night. You make some
interesting points about Israel being an armed camp and almost
anything being a legitimate military target, but I think you take it
a bit too far and therefore damage your credibility. Just this
morning, I saw identifications of some of the victims, particularly
of the Passover bombing, who clearly were civilians. Even Arafat
condemns such attacks. There's enough truth on the Palestinian side.
We needn't stretch it."- William Rood
WHTT Replies:
We appreciates the thoughtful letter with our best interest in mind.
We ask Mr. Rood to consider two facts common to many who sympathize
with the plight of the Palestinians but don't want to be seen
sympathetic toward the suicide bombers. Mr. Arafat is now in this
camp we are sorry to say. We do not think this issue can be dodged
no matter how we may feel personally about suicide, or how much
sympathy we have for the families and the bombers themselves.
First, of course not every bomb hits clear-cut military targets; many
explode without hitting any target at all, and a few do hit the
innocent. We do not know why, because the bomber cannot tell. The
Israeli million-dollar American smart bombs also "miss"; in Gaza, I
saw them hit schools and ambulances. On just one day, May 5, 2002,
Israelis shot children aged three, five and nine in the head and
chest.
The bomber is intelligent and resourceful, much more so than
the "smart bomb," but his weapons are incredibly primitive, which is
why they require human delivery and manual detonation. Some blow up
prematurely, others are detected and the bombers are killed before
they get near a target, usually because there are military guards on
military targets. And some bombers may panic or make mistakes; who
can know? Palestine is at war for its existence, and the Intelligent
Bomb is its only attack weapon, so it can hardly be ignored just
because it makes us uncomfortable to talk about it.
If Mr. Rood were to go back and look at the Passover guest list of
250 people, he would find it unavailable, and the casualty list as
well. He would find that only a few selected cases were identifiable
as civilians. Most of the 28 "people" reported dead and 128 injured--
20 seriously--have not been identified at all. Who were they? How
many were out-of-uniform military and reserve personnel? Ask the
MOT; we would like to know. We agree this probably was a religious
celebration even though in a posh hotel with lots of millitry
present. But I am told the Israeli Ministry of Truth still stands
guards at the tomb on Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli Reserve officer,
who in 1994 entered a mosque and murdered 29 Palestinians with a
machine gun, including children, while they prayed. The MOT never
denounced Dr Goldstein as a terrorist.
The point here is that the MOT reveals only the part of the truth
that suits them. Israel is at war, but they want a one-sided war in
which only they can strike, and their opponents are imprisoned and
must take it.
Mr. Rood mentioned Mr. Arafat, who has shown he is willing to
denounce the Intelligent Bombers. They come from factions that
compete with Arafat politically. Arafat may not be a popular leader
of the Palestinians; he is blamed by many for legitimatising the
terrible Oslo Accord, which legitimized the pure theft of his
people's property. When he was penned up in Ramallah, he told the
world he wished he could die as a martyr. He did not do it,
martyrdom is not an easy choice, which is why there are so few. The
Palestinians have their martyrs, they need a new leader.
Every race and nation venerates its fallen heroes--those who died for
the cause when they did not need to die. History is filled with
tales of those who chose death over recantation or compromise: Joan
of Arc, the Christian martyrs of first century Rome, the 12 apostles,
Paul, Timothy, John the Baptist, St. Steven... and Americans too,
Nathan Hale....Davie Crockett, Jim Bowie and all the Heroes of the
Alamo -- every society has had such heroes, and those committed few
knew the odds but considered the mission worth more than their
lives. The Intelligent Bombs are such as these. No oppressed group
ever had less to work with and faced a more powerful and ruthless
enemy than do the Palestinians.
In order to justify their own violence, the Israeli Ministry of
Orwellian Truth and our own government are spreading a gigantic lie
about who it is that the Intelligent Bombers target. We must do our
best to expose the truth.
Gary Nelson writes:
Please delete me from your mailing list. Your defense of murder,
especially coming as it does from a professed follower of the Prince
of Peace, makes me want to retch.
We reply: Dear Gary Nelson:
Retching could be very bad for your health unless you remove your
head from the sand first. -ed
Finally, Simon Stephan writes to WHTT about one Israelite Bible hero
who was an Intelligent Bomb:
I saw it fit to bring to your attention the subject of describing
human bombs and suicide bombers as terrorists and all the Media and
press reports and even people of power describing it the same in the
western world. It seems that the double standards that apply to most
of what goes on in our world is related to showing one group as bad
and another as good.
The creation of the State of Israel is linked to an assumed biblical
term that God the all mighty promised a land to his chosen bunch and
therefore they have every right to do what they please to fulfill
that promises.
On the other hand the same biblical records show that a simple act of
self destruction committed by Samson was an extremely honorable act
when he shook the pillars of the temple and made it fall on him and
the people in it that were his enemies. WAS NOT THAT AND ACT OF
TERRORISM? WASN'T THAT AN ACT OF A SUICIDE BOMBER? WASN'T THAT AN
ACT OF MURDER AGAINST INNOCENT CIVILIANS?
How can the world condemn those who sacrifice themselves believing
that it is the only way to justice and their only means of resisting
occupation, oppression and humiliation, while it glorifies the acts
of Samson and justifies his action as something honorable?
I personally do not believe in people killing themselves for any
reason and believe that God has given us a life to fulfill a target
or dream, and it is up to his judgment when to live and when to die.
At the same time I do not accept that a whole nation or population
could be massacred under the pretences of self-defense and the
retaliation of the poor defenseless State of Israel.
Keep up the good efforts and hope that THE TRUTH comes out as bright
as noon sun. Sincerely, Simon Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your author returns:
We are told every day by our press and many professed Christian
leaders (like Gary Nelson) that Palestinians are the most evil of
people who must be imprisoned and liquidated because less than 100
individuals, most of them less than 20 years old, have resorted to
using their bodies as human bombs. But it is not bombing that is
being criticized, but the choice of targets. Israel cannot criticize
anyone for bombing, for they do it every day. Some world leaders
call the Intelligent Bombs "cowards." These include George W. Bush,
Ariel Sharon and Binyamin Netanyahu. Now Yassar Arafat has joined
this select group which also includes Dick Armey and most Celebrity
Christian leaders. What every one of these people has in common is
they make their living by asking the public for money. For most,
their bravest act is to pass the collection plate. All have proven
to be liars on the question of Palestine. Some are cowardly killers
in their own right. To whom will you listen ?
-Cecarlson
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