From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of civl ecco Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:39 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [reality101_redux] Israel And 9-11
Israel And 9-11 By Wendy Campbell 06 January, 2008 Countercurrents.org The time has come To say fair’s fair To pay the rent To pay our share The time has come A fact’s a fact It belongs to them Lets give it back How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep when our beds are burning The time has come A fact’s a fact It belongs to us all Lets give it back - Lyrics to “Beds Are Burning” by Midnight Oil - <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk The time has come for me to finally write about my experience with The Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) beginning back in 2001 shortly after the tragic events of 9-11. I had already begun to learn the Truth about racist, apartheid Israel shortly after the Second Intifada (uprising or “shaking off” in Arabic) in September 2000 during a lunch break from my job at the time, while I was listening to the famous progressive Berkeley-based KPFA radio station. What I heard mesmerized me. When I reached the parking lot at my workplace and parked my car, I couldn’t get out of the car because I felt compelled to listen to the entire interview between an Israeli, a Palestinian and an American with regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What I was hearing were things the mainstream US media never really addresses nor rarely reveals to the American public: mainly the conflict as seen from the Palestinian point of view, as well as from an objective point of view (the American non-Zionist interviewer). I also learned from this interview certain generally hidden facts such how the Israeli prime minister Yitzshak Rabin, who was really going to make some important concessions with the Palestinians in order for Israel to finally take some real steps towards justice and peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, was assassinated in 1995 by an extremist Zionist Jewish Israeli. That act completely halted any genuine peace process since then, so the assassin’s motive for killing him was achieved. Obviously this man’s ideology has a strong support base because ever since then, the “peace process” has never seriously been revived. The “peace process”, which is completely dominated and controlled by Israel, and backed by its supporters in the US government, is really just a “stalling process”, while the ethic-cleansing campaign continues unabetted. Contrary to what the Israelis claim, the Palestinians have no “partner in peace” in the Israelis, who have not stopped stealing more Palestinian land nor their collective punishment against all Palestinians via crippling roadblocks, turning off electricity and water supplies at will for long lengths of time, and basically literally starving the Palestinians in what amounts to huge open-air concentration camps. The only thing that can stop this madness is for the USA to stop all manner of support to Israel and for everyone to boycott apartheid Israel, just as apartheid South Africa was boycotted. At any rate, much of my experience about this time can be found in my first ever political article, which is entitled “Why I Am A Pro-Palestinian Activist” and at the website for my tiny media company MarWen Media. You can find the link at: http://www.marwenmedia.com/ <http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images/WhyIAmProPal.html> articles_images/WhyIAmProPal.html However until now, I have never written about my experience with the Jewish Voice for Peace, which I had discovered shortly after 9-11 from a flyer I had picked up at La Pena Cultural Center when I had attended an excellent slideshow entitled “Face of the Occupation” which was presented by Penny Rosenwasser of MECA (Middle East Children’s Alliance) which is directed by Penny’s partner, Barbara Lubin, an anti-Zionist of Jewish heritage. Penny is also active in the JVP. She calls herself a Zionist, but I think this is simply just because of a deep desire on her part to be close to her Jewish community, most of whom are Zionists. Her slideshow was the inspiration for my first documentary “Truth: Exposing Israeli Apartheid”. Penny Rosenwasser, a Jewish American peace and human rights activist, was very generous to me, allowing me to film her slideshow with my video camcorder and even giving me a copy of a photo she took of a Jews-only by-pass road in Israel, where Palestinians are shot and/or arrested if they are caught trying to use it. Of course there are no signs there which say “No Palestinians Allowed” because that would broadcast the fact that Israel is an apartheid country by putting it in writing, confirming the obvious. For more details on these apartheid roads in Israel including that photo, see http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images <http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images/ApartheidIsraelRoads.html> /ApartheidIsraelRoads.html Her slideshow and this photo of the apartheid by-pass road for Jews-only are featured prominently in my documentary. When I premiered my documentary “Truth: Exposing Israeli Apartheid” at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, California, the very place where I saw her slide show about a year earlier, I donated half of the proceeds to the Middle East Children’s Alliance. At any rate, I discovered the Jewish Voice for Peace from that flyer at her slide show and decided to try to attend one of their meetings, since it was the only group of any sort that I knew about which was discussing Middle East politics. At that time, most Americans were simply clueless about Israel and the Middle East in general. I should know. I used to be one of them. I showed up at the doorstep of the house in Berkeley where a meeting of the Jewish Voice for Peace was being held sometime in early November 2001 and asked the greeter at the door if I was “allowed” to attend even if I am not Jewish . The person let me in. I found myself seated next to Prof. Joel Beinin, who teaches at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. We chatted before the meeting began. He was very nice and informative. In fact, he told me he was going to give some lectures about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a class at the UC Berkeley and when I expressed an interest in attending it as a guest, he gave me his permission. I did show up with my camcorder and filmed the entire lecture. Unfortunately, I was just getting used to my camcorder and the quality is not not great, so I did not include any of it in my documentary “Truth: Exposing Israeli Apartheid”. (Note: Ultra hardcore Zionist and Islamaphobic David Horowitz has relentlessly slandered Prof. Beinin for his activism with JVP and beyond.) Anyway, everyone was seated in the crowded room, in chairs, sofas and on the floor. Lincoln Shlensky sat on the floor in the middle of the crowded room. He was one of the original members and leaders of the Jewish Voice for Peace, which was formed in 1996, after the provocative opening by the Netanyahu government of an archaeological tunnel under Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which led directly to confrontations in which 65 Palestinians and 14 Israelis were killed. After that conflict seemed to settle down a bit during yet another sham of a “peace process”, the Jewish Voice for Peace basically disbanded. However, shortly after 9-11-01, the group was resurrected again, apparently to deal some damage control. One astute observer of the Jewish political scene has made the reasonable statement that if the JVP didn’t exist, then the Likuds would have invented it themselves for creating good PR for Israel, but really nothing much more than that, in that there is no positive change in the direction that Israel has embarked on since day one with regards to the human rights of the non-Jewish native Palestinians. “ANYONE WHO THINKS ISRAEL HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH 9-11 IS NAÏVE.” says JVP Leader Lincoln Shlensky, a pleasant Jewish man, a student at UC Berkeley and who seemed to be in his mid-30s, twisted himself left and right in order to look around the room and make eye-contact with everyone as he opened the meeting with the proclamation that “anyone who thinks that Israel has anything to do with 9-11 is naïve.” Hmmm… I thought to myself. Very interesting. If this was indeed the case, why are we even here? It immediately seemed to me like a bit of self-deception at best and deliberate deception at worst. It quickly became obvious to me that the Jewish Voice for Peace was really basically about doing damage control with regards to Israel’s obvious role in 9-11 and they were running interference for any attempts to blame or criticize Israel in any way for the 9-11 attacks. More- <http://www.countercurrents.org/campbell060108.htm> http://www.countercurrents.org/campbell060108.htm __,_._,___ *** exposing the hidden truth for further educational research only *** CAVEAT LECTOR *** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. NOTE: Some links may require cut and paste into your Internet Browser. Please check <http://tinyurl.com/33c9yr> http://tinyurl.com/33c9yr for more real news posts and support the truth! 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