Israel

At no other time in U.S. history, not even during World War II, have so many millions of U.S. citizens been led to believe such hysterical hoaxes as those released by the US government, whether FBI, CIA, the media or flyers put on the street by individuals hired by the government. Actually these are people who work in government offices and go out on the street and hand them out to people.

Government harassment of U.S. political activists clearly exists today, violating our fundamental democratic rights and creating a climate of fear and distrust, which undermines our efforts to challenge official policy. Similar attacks on social justice movements came to light during the 1960s. Largely hidden was a vast government program to neutralize domestic political opposition through "covert action," just like covert actions used in overthrown countries, political repression carried out secretly or under the guise of legitimate law enforcement.

How many people who have either protested peacefully, or have done anything peacefully for that matter, have been successful in bringing the information to the public eye? Many times it was squashed before or during the protest or meeting. Yes, even meeting that were held indoors were disrupted by law enforcement officials. Sometimes they were not even law enforcement and they had phony Ids.

Then when these people and groups brought legal action how many were successful?

Judges, law, government, they’re all the same thing. When you talk about one you
talk about them all.

The Freedom of Information Act is a legal source of obtaining major disclosures about classified and former classified documents. This was drastically narrowed down in the 1980s through administrative and judicial reinterpretation as well as legislative amendments. Thousands of government files were shielded from public scrutiny under presidential directives that vastly expand the range of information classified "top-secret."

Other words used were “national security” and “vital to the security of the US.” Government employees now face censorship even after they retire, and new laws make it a federal crime to disclose any information that identifies an individual as a covert agent. All this did was to give the government more power to perform more covert operations under the Reagan Administration.

Some of those covert operations took place in the Middle East. Ever since the discovery of vast oil reserves in the region of the Middle East there has been an overwhelming desire for the US to have eventual control over it at any cost. Since its 1967 victory in the six-day war US aid and weapons of war have ensured an Israeli-U.S. alliance with both wanting access to Arab oil.

The United States has given Israel virtually every sophisticated weapon system it has to offer and more than $18 billion in money. The U.S. has also assisted Israel's development and testing of its own nuclear weapons. Believe me, it did not come from anywhere else.

But Israel is as bad as us. Remember their bombing of the U.S.S. Liberty during the 1967 war, a deliberate act apparently to prevent the U.S. communications ship from monitoring, perhaps disrupting its invasion and occupation of the Golan Heights? Do you also remember Jonathan Pollard?

Israeli has the power to fight off anyone in the entire Middle East for a radius of 1,000 miles. The US has the ability to do the same for a radius of 10,000 miles. It is amazing that all these weapons are fired at Israel, everyone threatens them, yet nobody has eliminated them.

I wonder why the US sometimes does not attack Israel? The only reason I can think of is the oil and the Jews in the US and around the world would not be too happy. I believe in my heart one day the US will turn its back on Israel when there is a crisis and that is when all hell is going to break lose. That is when we will see nuclear weapons broken out of silos and the use of chemical warheads coming our way.

The oil is the biggest thing in the Middle East area and if these bozos that calls themselves engineers and scientists and whatever don’t come up with alternatives to petroleum there will always be that threat.

I do not live in a country that is always under attack so it is hard for me to comment on the brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians, collective punishment, obliteration of entire villages, and mass forced expulsions.

I cannot comment on the Gaza Strip. I always thought that God gave the Jews that thousands of years ago but my bible teacher said that had always been Palestine and I have never researched it. It is one takes the lives of the other and then the other retaliates. I don’t think you could trace it back other than through the bible how it al started.

But Israel has been know to use torture, terrorism, starvation and murder and with US approval. Under Ariel Sharon and with the approval of the current Bush Administration they have been real terrorists. No nation has more experience with terrorism than Israel and no nation has made a greater contribution to our understanding of the problem and the best way to confront it. I told you that was why no Israeli airline has been hijacked. They will just kill them all. No negotiations other than to come out or we come in, just like a movie where 15 passengers get killed or the plane is blown up.

Here is a clip I came across and have copied into my blog.

(In Israel the use of death squads to murder Palestinians has been discussed in some of the Hebrew press. It was not employed in the occupied territories until about September or October 1987, when we had one very well documented case in the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli Hebrew press, three Palestinians were discovered dead, in a car. One of them was a Palestinian guerrilla who had escaped from prison. The two others were collaborators [Palestinians who work with or support the Israelis]-well-known, rich collaborators. One of them had established a branch of the Tel Aviv stock exchange in Gaza. The other was of a similar background. So you can understand that such people are neither guerrillas nor helpers of guerrillas.

Since the families were very rich they could employ very good lawyers -Palestinian lawyers from Israel. And by using such lawyers and with the help of a Hebrew weekly called Koteret Rashit, which is sensitive and courageous about corruption in the intelligence and security services, even if not so good about Palestinian national rights, the case was brought into the open. By now it is completely clear that the two businessmen were murdered simply because they were accidentally eyewitnesses to the murder of the guerrilla.

There was also a recent case in which Israeli television, against orders, photographed an Israeli Jewish civilian shooting straight into a crowd of Palestinians. But when it was discovered that the person was a member of the General Security Service, Shabak, there was not even the smallest judicial investigation. It was simply announced that he was reprimanded. And that was it.

It is well known that Israel is involved with death squads in countries like Guatemala and many others, so it is only natural that this matter would come home. I think there is no doubt that the employment of death squads, especially in the Gaza Strip, was one of the sparks, which ignited the violence.)

Israeli military officers helped South Africa plan its 1975 invasion of Angola. In 1981 Gen. Ariel Sharon, then Israeli Defense Minister, spent 10 days with South African troops in Namibia near the Angolan border. Do you remember that? Why do you think he became Primeminster of Israel?

Despite some secrecy, it appears that both Israel and South Africa have developed nuclear weapons and could not have done so without each other's help. Israeli nuclear scientists were frequently reported to have been in South Africa in 1977, the same year the apartheid state abruptly canceled what were preparations for an atomic weapons test in the Kalahari Desert.

Two years later it was proven that Israel and South Africa carried out a nuclear bomb test in the South Atlantic Ocean. The Carter Administration and the regimes in Pretoria and Tel Aviv denied it. A CBS News correspondent named Dan Raviv reported in 1980 that Israel had detonated an atomic bomb in a joint nuclear project in the South Atlantic. Sometimes the media is good. But that was then. I think 75% of it is reckless today.

Sophisticated weapons technology purchased by Israel from the United States also has been diverted to South Africa, such as the 155 mm Howitzers, the world's most advanced artillery piece. Israel bought them from the US and then sold them to the white-regime in South Africa. Israel also used them in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

After South African troops were repelled in their 1975 invasion of Angola Pretoria turned to Israel to purchase them. Israel was willing to sell the guns to South Africa but they did not own the rights to the weapon. Why that should stop them is a question in itself. The question was what does one do? The answer is you team up with some former CIA agents. Israel not only sold Pretoria the advanced weapons but also trained South African technicians, who later reconstructed the Howitzers.

So you see how nicely it all works. Israel makes money by funding South Africa, The US and Israel have a good relationship and the Pretorians are like China. They take it apart, study it, then they build it themselves for a cheaper price due to cheap labor.

Everybody is happy. Everyone wins