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TIME TO TELL THE AMERICANS TO TAKE A HIKE!
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"There is no parallel between bombs and
bulldozers... We cannot have an environment in which people believe the
way to get what they want is to kill innocent people..."
- U.S. President Bill Clinton 8/6/97
MER - Washington - 8/11/97:
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Never in history has there been such an Israeli-captured
President in the White House as Bill Clinton. The Israeli/Jewish lobby
set out to defeat George Bush, quite literally infiltrated the Clinton
headquarters in Little Rock with its people, pushed huge amounts of "soft
money" at both Clinton and the Democracy Party, and sure enough their
man Bill has done everything they ever dreamed ever since.
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Bill's latest payoff to the Israelis and their American
Jewish cadre is to make a former Israeli lobby official -- a man who was
an Australian citizen when Bill was elected President, a man who lived
in Israel and served in the Israeli army -- Assistant Secretary of State
(that's of the UNITED STATES mind you!) for the Middle East!
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It's not inordinate Chinese money and influence in
American politics the Congress should be investigating, it's how Israel
manipulates American politics with the help of some key Americans (most
of them Jewish), who are in fact, however distasteful it is to say it,
"dually loyal".
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At Camp David back nearly 20 years ago the Israelis
promised to stop settlements in the occupied territories. Go back and read
the speech Jimmy Carter delivered to a joint session of the Congress in
front of the entire world heralding this tremendous breakthrough! Within
months the Israelis broke their promises, defied Carter (threatening his
reelection that still never was to be), and went about their old ways.
Sadat's assassination, revolution in Iran, the destruction of Lebanon,
American hostages, the "Intifada", and the rise of Hamas and
Hizballah ensued.
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At Madrid and Oslo -- after the destruction of Iraq
-- the Israelis made more promises and gave more assurances. Even with
those conferences always weighted tremendously in their favor, even with
the Americans always defying near-unanimous world opinion and vetoing various
U.N. resolutions, Israelis have gone from one deception, one subterfuge,
and one massacre to another. Meanwhile Washington has either looked the
other way, or behind the scenes worked closely with the Israelis while
publicly soothing Arab sensibilities with duplicitous, and meaningless,
rhetoric.
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Now in 1997, with the "native" Palestinians
being corralled onto "autonomous" reservations in the name of
"peace process", the Americans are at it again; blaming the victim
rather than the aggressor; crying over scenes of Israeli carnage while
looking away and covering up when rivers of Palestinian blood flow.
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With Palestinian "autonomous" "population
centers" now surrounded by American-supplied tanks, Israeli Army roadblocks,
and electrified fences; and with what's left of Palestinian civil society
now "controlled" by an imported once-PLO militia now armed and
financed by Israel and the U.S. -- courageous Palestinians try to resist.
But it is THEY Bill Clinton repeatedly condemns.
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- No wonder Dr. Eyad Sarraj from Gaza now pleads with
the world to understand "Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers"
-- (see http://www.MiddleEast.org/Sarraj1.htm).
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- No wonder Professor Noam Chomsky decries the "peace
process" as very similar to Apartheid of old in South Africa -- (see
http://www.MiddleEast.org/Chomsky1.htm).
So let it be said clearly and succinctly: The Palestinians
have been lied to and tricked, deceived and battered by the U.S., Israel,
and the Europeans for generations now. The Palestinians have been dispossessed
and tortured, ravaged and bloodied by the Israelis for nearly 50 years
now. It is the Arabs who have been bombed time and time again; from 1948
to 1956, from 1967 to 1982 to Sabra and Shatilla to Qana -- the list is
lengthy indeed, the numbers of innocent Palestinians and Arabs far far
greater than that of innocent Israelis.
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And so today the Palestinians are perfectly entitled
to defend their country and their vital interests, with stones, with guns,
and if need be with bombs. The Palestinians are entitled to fight back
against those who continually have used aggression against them, against
those who have militarily occupied and brutalized them for a generation
now. And if their tactics and choices are sometimes terrible to watch on
TV, let us remember very well what has been done to them; and let us remember
as well that to protect their "vital interests" it is the Americans
who have used nuclear weapons and napalm, agent orange and 2000-pound bombs,
killing and maiming so many millions of innocents.
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Let it also be said clearly and succinctly: The American
President, especially this Israeli American President, crying about the
blood of "innocent civilians" has no credibility whatsoever!
And if the Arabs regimes had any guts and dignity at all they'd tell the
Americans (starting with Dennis Ross, himself a former Israeli lobby personality)
to take a hike and start taking responsibility themselves for what is going
on in their part of the world!
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- * Mark Bruzonsky is Chairperson of the Committee On
The Middle East and former Washington representative of the World Jewish
Congress. His edited books about the Middle East have been published by
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian,
Congressional Quarterly, and National Geographic (film). Bruzonsky produces
the weekly TV program MID-EAST REALITIES and has visited the Middle East
region over 150 times. His detailed bio information can be found at http://WWW.MiddleEast.Org/mab.htm;
and he can be contacted by email to MAB@MiddleEast.Org or phone (202) 362-5266,
Ext 278.
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