".. There is only one basic reason why Israel repeatedly commits
crimes against humanity, including the latest assault on the
humanitarian flotilla: because it knows that the Zionist Power
Configuration, embedded in the US power structure, will ensure
government support, in this case the Obama White House.
In the face of the world-wide condemnation of Israel’s
crime on the high seas, and calls from the international community for
legal action, the Obama regime absolutely refused to criticize Israel.
A White House spokesman said “The United States deeply regrets the
loss of life and injuries sustained and is currently working to
understand the circumstances surrounding the tragedy” (AFP May 31,
2010). An act of state terrorism does not evoke “regrets” – it
normally provokes condemnation and punishment.."
[James Petras]
Israeli War Crimes: From the U.S. Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla
James Petras
Introduction: Israel Crimes on the High Seas
On June 8, 1967, two squadrons of Israeli warplanes
bombed, napalmed and machine-gunned the US intelligence-gathering
ship, USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 US sailors and
wounding another 172. The assault took place on a sunny afternoon,
with the US flag and identifying markers clearly visible. The
Israelis targeted the antennae to prevent the crew from broadcasting
for help and shot up the lifeboats to ensure no survivors. There
were, however, survivors who rigged up an antenna and radioed their
distress, a call for help that reached Washington D.C. In an
unprecedented act of betrayal, President Johnson, in close liaison
with powerful American Jewish Zionist political backers, covered up
the mass murder on the high seas by issuing orders first to recall
Mediterranean-based warplanes from rushing to assist their besieged
comrades, then threatening to court-martial the survivors who might
expose the deliberate nature of the Israeli assault and finally by
repeating the Israeli line that the attack was a matter of mistaken
identity, a lie which numerous military leaders later rejected.
Almost to the day, 43 years later, on May 31, 2010,
Israeli warships, helicopter gun ships and commandos assaulted a
convoy of humanitarian ships carrying ten thousand tons of aid to Gaza
in international waters. Prior to the aid mission Turkish authorities
had examined the passengers and the ship to ensure no weapons were on
board. The Israelis never the less came on board shooting and
clubbing the unarmed passengers, killing up to19 and wounding dozens.
Despite subsequent Israeli and Zionist claims to the contrary no
weapons were found, apart from sticks used by some of the victims
attempting to fend off the murderous premeditated assault planned,
directed and defended by top Israeli leaders and the entire leadership
of the major Zionist organizations in the US and elsewhere. The
invading Israeli storm troopers systematically destroyed all cameras,
videos and tape recorders that had documented their savage assault, in
order to subsequently spread their brazen lies about their being
subject to armed resistance.
The World Response
Within hours of Israel’s bloody act of piracy, nations,
political leaders, human rights organizations and the vast majority of
the international community condemned the Israeli state for its
violation of international law. Turkey, Spain, Greece, Denmark and
Austria summoned their Israeli Ambassadors to protest the deadly
assault. The Financial Times, (June 1, 2010) referred to the Israeli
assault as a “brazen act of piracy … hurtling into lawlessness” rooted
in its “illegal blockage of Gaza”. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep
Erdogan called the Israeli assault an act of “state terrorism” which
would have “serious consequences”. Israel’s attacks on ships flying
Turkish, Greek and Irish flags on the high seas were described by
legal experts as an “act of war”. The UN Security Council, NATO and
the Secretary General of the UN demanded Israel cease its aggression,
while tens of thousands of demonstrators marched denouncing Israel’s
blatant act of state murder and wounding of pacifists, humanitarians
and protestors from 60 countries. UN experts demanded that Israeli
leaders “must be held criminally responsible”. Only the Obama regime
refused to condemn the Israeli act of state terror, merely expressing
“concern and regret”. The Israeli state defended its murderous
assault, promised more in the future and insisted on maintaining its
blockade of Gaza, even after the US suggested it might be loosened.
The Israeli Defense of Piracy and State Terror
As news of the Israeli massacre slipped out and the
international community reacted with horror and anger, the Israeli
government “sought to flood the airwaves with their versions of events
… more importantly, the authorities ensured that their narrative
gained early dominance by largely silencing the hundreds of activists
who were on board during the attack” (Financial Times, June 2, 2010,
p2.). The Jewish state held all the prisoners alive, wounded and dead
incommunicado, seized their mobile phones and prohibited any
interviews, barring all journalists. Like most terrorist states, the
Jewish state wanted to monopolize the propaganda media. The Israeli
propaganda machine via its state sponsored journalists and news media
employed several ploys typical of totalitarian regimes.
1.) Israeli storm troopers invading the ship were turned into
victims and the humanitarian pacifists were turned into aggressors.
“Israeli Soldiers Met by Well-Planned Lynch Mob” (Jerusalem Post,
March 31, 2010); “Israeli Soldiers Attacked” (IDF, March 31, 2010).
2.) Israel’s act of piracy in international waters was declared
legal by a Professor Sabel of the Hebrew University.
3.) The humanitarian organizers were accused of having ties to
terrorists according to Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon, though no
evidence was presented (Ha’aretz, May 30, 2010). The organizers
including the Turkish human rights group accused by Ayalon were
cleared by the Turkish intelligence agency, the military and the
Erdogan government, a member of NATO and for many years (in the past)
a collaborator with the Israeli Mossad. The other 600 plus human
rights volunteers, included pacifists, parliamentarians, former
diplomats, as well as current members of the Israeli parliament.
4.) While dozens of human rights people were shot, killed and
maimed, Israeli propagandists doctored video releases portraying one
of the Israeli assailants on the deck, cutting out the preceding
sequence of attack (Financial Times, June 2, 2010, p. 2).
5.) The Israeli sea and airborne assailants were described as the
victims of a “Brutal Ambush at Sea” (Ynet News, June 1, 2010).
6.) The terrorized human rights workers were accused of being a
“lynch mob”, attacking the Jewish commandos who were firing automatic
rifles wildly across the deck and at cornered victims. The few
courageous individuals who fought back to stop the murderous attack
were slandered by the Zion-prop, which itself is as monstrous as the
crimes they perpetrated.
Once the Israeli propaganda machine started spewing out its gutter
lies, the entire leadership of the Zionist Fifth column swung into
action … first and foremost in the United States.
The US Zionist Power Configuration: In Defense of the Massacre
Just as the entire leadership of the 51 principle American
Jewish organizations defended every Israeli war crime in the past,
from the bombing of the US Liberty, to the Occupation of the West Bank
and the blockade of Gaza so too did these most honorable apologists
repeat verbatim the lies of the Israeli state regarding the assault of
the humanitarian flotilla.
The Daily Alert (May 31 – June 2, 2010), the official
public propaganda organ of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish
Organizations, published every scurrilous Israeli state lie, about the
Israeli commandos being ‘lynched’, ‘attacked’ and the human rights
victims being responsible for the death of their comrades … at the
hands of Israeli commandos. Not a single deviation, not a single word
of criticism. Not even a single mention of even the superficial
Israeli critics who faulted the execution, the use of deadly weapons,
the assault in international waters, and the public relations fiasco.
The vast majority of Israeli Jews and organized Zionists in the US
supported the bloody massacre and were opposed by a small minority who
has no access to the mass media. Zionist control over the mass media
was once again demonstrated by the reporting through “Israel’s eyes”
(FAIR, June 1, 2010). Essentially the New York Times, the Washington
Post, CNN, CBS, NBC presented the Israeli commandos attacking the
humanitarian boat as being … “assaulted and beaten” (Washington Post,
June 1, 2010). The New York Times gave credence to the Israeli claim
that its act of piracy on the high seas was legal (NY Times, June 1,
2010). For the US mass media the problem is not Israeli state terror,
but how to manipulate and disarm the outrage of the international
community. To that end the entire Zionist Power configuration has a
reliable ally in the Zionized Obama White House and US Congress.
The Obama Response to Israeli State Terror
There is only one basic reason why Israel repeatedly
commits crimes against humanity, including the latest assault on the
humanitarian flotilla: because it knows that the Zionist Power
Configuration, embedded in the US power structure, will ensure
government support, in this case the Obama White House.
In the face of the world-wide condemnation of Israel’s
crime on the high seas, and calls from the international community for
legal action, the Obama regime absolutely refused to criticize Israel.
A White House spokesman said “The United States deeply regrets the
loss of life and injuries sustained and is currently working to
understand the circumstances surrounding the tragedy” (AFP May 31,
2010). An act of state terrorism does not evoke “regrets” – it
normally provokes condemnation and punishment. The power which caused
“loss of life and injuries” has a name – Israel; the persons who
suffered death and injuries during the Israeli assault – have a name –
humanitarian volunteers. It was not simply a “loss of life” but a
well planned premeditated murder which is openly defended by Prime
Minister Netanyahu and his entire Cabinet. The “circumstances” of the
murders are clear: Israel assaulted an unarmed ship in international
waters, opening fire as they boarded the ship. The Obama regime’s
obscene political cover-up of a deliberate criminal act in violation
of international law is evident in his description of a serial
homicide as a ‘tragedy’. Premeditated state terror has no resemblance
to a tragic noble ruler forced by circumstances into a criminal act
against their closest allies.
Washington, pressed to participate at a UN Security
Council meeting, spent 10 hours eliminating all references to Israel’s
illegal criminal act, ending in a resolution which merely calls for an
“impartial” investigation, with Washington pushing for an Israeli
investigatory committee. To the world at large, including the Turkish
government, the Obama regime and the US government, by refusing to
condemn Israel, are “accomplices to a mass murder”.
To understand why the Obama regime brought shame and
infamy to itself in the eyes of the world, one need look at the
Zionist composition of the Obama White House and, equally important,
the direct power and access that the principle Jewish-Zionist
organizations have over the US political system. In the week
preceding Israel’s announced assault on the humanitarian flotilla,
(pro-Israel) Jewish leaders met with over a third of US senators to
pressure them to pass harsher sanctions on Iran by June. Among the key
operatives attending were the Jewish Federation of North America,
AIPAC and the rest of the Israeli Fifth Column (Jewish Telegraph
Agency, May 26, 2010). The following day a squadron of leaders from
the Jewish Federations flew into Washington to meet with top Obama
administration officials, to ensure that the White House and Congress
did not in any way or form publicly express any criticism of Israel’s
settlement policy. No doubt the Zionist apologists for Israeli war
crimes extended their agenda to include no public criticism of the
Israeli assault on the flotilla. Rahm Emmanuel, top US Presidential
aide, was in Tel Aviv as a guest of top officials of the Israel
Defense Force a few days before the IDF launched the assault, no doubt
having filled Rahm in on the details. The Israeli-American aide to
Obama no doubt assured the war criminals of Washington’s unconditional
political and military support for Israel’s acts of aggression.
From within the Obama Administration and without, the
aggressive pressure from the 51 principle organizations of the
American Zionists have guaranteed Israeli war criminals immunity from
any War Crimes Tribunal, or even serious political condemnation by the
UN Security Council. The Zionized White House’s tactic is to deflect
attention from immediate consequential condemnation let alone
sanctions, hoping that over time, aided by the blanket mass media
apology in the US, the mass indignation and protest overseas will
gradually wither away. Obama and his Zionist cohort are already in a
belly crawl mode with Israel. Part of Rahm’s mission to Israel was to
hand Netanyahu an invitation to the White House, during the week of
the slaughter at sea. The only reason Netanyahu did not come to
Washington was because he rushed back to Israel to buttress the
Foreign Office’s defense of the slaughter in the face of world-wide
outrage. But in a phone conversation, Obama promised Netanyahu a
prompt new invitation – assuring the Jewish statesman that violating
international laws and bloodying dozens of humanitarian activists is
of no consequence, especially since it insures continued financial
support by Obama’s Zionist backers.
Like Lyndon Johnson with the cover-up of the USS Liberty,
Obama’s apology of Israel’s war crimes, is the price for ensuring the
backing of billionaire Zionist financiers and media moguls, the tens
of thousands of pro-Israel Jews and the 51 President of the Major
American Jewish Organizations.
In the face of Washington’s complicity with Israeli war
crimes, the only road is to intensify the world-wide boycott,
disinvestment and sanctions campaign against all Israeli products,
cultural activities and professional exchanges. Hopefully, the
Islamic led mass protests will find echo in the wider anti-Zionist
Christian and Jewish communities – especially, when Israeli apologists
for state terror make public appearances. Even more important each
and every Israeli involved in the mass assault should be subject to
criminal prosecution wherever they visit. Only by making the Israelis
understand that they will pay a high price for their serial homicides
and violations of international law will reason possibly enter their
political narrative. Only by moving beyond symbolic protests, like
recalling diplomats, and taking substantive actions, like breaking
relations, will the international community isolate the perpetrator of
state terrorism. All Americans should send loud and clear to
President Obama –NEVER AGAIN. Otherwise, with the Zionist Power
Configuration active 7/24, the Obama regime, true to the Zionist
agenda, will once again focus attention on attacking Iran. Israel’s
action today with US complicity is a prelude of the kind of deadly
force it has in store for sabotaging the recent Turkey-Brazil-Iran
diplomatic agreement.
This is dedicated to the brave Turkish martyrs on the Mavi
Marmara, May 31, 2010, and to the 34 murdered American sailors on the
USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 – all victims of an unrepentant criminal
state - Israel.
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