The Politics Of An Israeli
Extermination Campaign - Backers, Apologists And Arms Suppliers
By Prof. James Petras
1-5-9
Introduction
Because of the unconditional support of the entire political class in the US, from the White House to Congress, including both Parties, incoming and outgoing elected officials and all the principle print and electronic mass media, the Israeli Government feels no compunction in publicly proclaiming a detailed and graphic account of its policy of mass extermination of the population of Gaza.
Israel's sustained and comprehensive bombing campaign of every aspect of governance, civic institutions and society is directed toward destroying civilized life in Gaza. Israel's totalitarian vision is driven by the practice of a permanent purge of Arab Palestine informed by Zionism, an ethno-racist ideology, promulgated by the Jewish state and justified, enforced and pursued by its organized backers in the United States.
The facts of Israeli extermination have become known: In the first six days of round the clock terror bombing of major and minor populations centers, the Jewish State has murdered and seriously maimed over 2,500 people, mostly dismembered and burned in the open ovens of missile fire. Scores of children and women have been slaughtered as well as defenseless civilians and officials.
They have sealed off all access to Gaza and declared it a military, free fire zone, while expanding their target to include the entire population of 1.5 millions semi-starved prisoners. According to the Boston Globe (December 30, 2008): Israeli military officials said their target lists have expanded to include the vast support network on which the Islamist movement relies to stay in power "we are trying to hit the whole spectrum, because everything is connected and everything supports terrorism against Israel (my emphasis)". A top Israeli in its secret police apparatus is quoted saying, "Hamas' civilian infrastructure is a very sensitive target" (ibid). What the Israeli Jewish politicians and military planners designate as "Hamas" is the entire social service network, the entire government and the vast majority of economic activity, embracing almost the entire 1.5 million imprisoned residents of Gaza.
Israel's 'target' list thus involves the 'total population', using the totality of its non-nuclear weaponry and for an unlimited time period (until the 'bitter end' according to the Israeli Prime Minister). Israel's defense ministry spokesman has emphatically reiterated the Jewish's state's totalitarian war concept emphasizing the targeting of civilians: "Hamas has used ostensibly civilian operations as a cover for military activities. Anything affiliated with Hamas is a legitimate target."
Like all totalitarians in the past, the Jewish state boasts of having systematically pre-planned the extermination campaign months in advance up to and including the precise hour and day of the bombing to coincide with inflicting the maximum murder of civilians: The rockets and bombs fell as children were leaving school, as graduating police cadets were receiving their diplomas and as frantic mothers ran out from their homes to find their sons and daughters.
The mass military extermination campaign was a follow up of its non-stop total economic embargo and unremitting selective assassination campaign of the previous two years: Both were designed to purge Palestine of its Arab population, first via mass hunger, disease, humiliation and violent intimidation and the proxy power grab by the PLO Quislings under Zionist puppet Abbas. When they discovered that mass hunger and selective Israeli murder only strengthened the population's links to its democratically elected government and the resolve of the Hamas government to resist Israel, the Israeli regimes unleashed its entire arsenal of weapons, including its new 'American gifts' up-to-date 1000 pound 'bunker buster' bombs and high tech missiles to incinerate large numbers of human beings within their deadly radius and to obliterate Palestinian civilization.
Moving directly from its totalitarian vision to its military blueprint to the savaging of Palestinian population centers, the Jewish state destroyed the principle university with over 18,000 students (mostly women), mosques, pharmacies, electrical and water lines, power stations, fishing villages, fishing boats and the little fishing port that provided a meager supply of fish for the starving population. They destroyed roads, transport facilities, food warehouses, science buildings, small factories, shops and apartments. They destroyed a women's dormitory at the university. In the words of the Israel leader: "because everything is connected to everything" it is necessary to destroy each and every facet of life, which allows humans to exist with some dignity and independence.
The Israeli totalitarian leaders knew with confidence that they could act and they could kill with impunity, locally and before the entire world, because of the influence of the USZionist Power Configuration in and over the US White House and Congress. They knew they had the full backing of all the major Israeli political parties (Right, Left and Center), trade unions, mass media and especially public opinion. Israeli state terror is backed by 81% of Jewish Israelis according to a poll taken by Israel's Channel 10 (Financial Times December 30, 2008). Israeli totalitarian violence and extermination of Palestinians is extremely popular among the Jewish electorate, especially in raising support for the Labor Party candidate MinisterEhud Barak. They knew they would 'succeed' with virtually no casualties because they bombed, burned and dismembered a defenseless population totally lacking the minimum means to defend themselves from F16 bombers, helicopter gun ships and missile assaults. The vile depravity of the assault on the defenseless population is matched by the utter cowardice of the Israeli military command and its cheering bloodthirsty public ensconced behind their aerial monopoly. They suffered no threats of aerial retaliation, no wounded or dead pilots, helicopter gunners, as wave after wave swept in and over a defenseless imprisoned population in a crowded and besieged ghetto.
Hundreds of tanks and armored carriers are prepared to invade once the cities and towns have been leveled, once the population is too weakened by starvation to resist, once the leaders and fighters have been murdered and the normal Palestinian institutions of law and order have been pulverized, making way for the corrupt thuggish collaborators of the so-called Palestinian Authoritythen and only then, will the Israeli General staff risk the skin of a precious Jewish 'soldier' and risk the anxiety and worry of their kin in Israel and the US.
Overseas Allies: The Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO)
From the moment that the Israeli Government decided it would destroy the newly elected Hamas government and punish the democratic electorate of Gaza with starvation and murder, the entire Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) in the US, including the PMAJO, pulled all stops in implementing the Israeli policy. The PMAJO encompasses the fifty-two Jewish organizations with the largest membership, with the greatest financial clout and the most influential backers. The most prominent lobbyist within the PMAJO is AIPAC, which has over 100,000 members and 150 full-time operatives in Washington actively pressuring the US Congress, the White House and all administrative agencies whose policies may relate to the interests of the State of Israel. However Israeli political extends far beyond its non-governmental agencies. Over two score legislators in the Congress and over a dozen senators are committed Zionists who automatically back Israel's policies and push for US funding and armaments for its military machine. Top officials in key administrative positions, in Treasury, Commerce and the National Security Council, senior functionaries in the Pentagon and top advisers on Middle East affairs are also life-long, fanatically committed Zionists, who consistently and unreservedly back the policies of the State of Israel.
Equally important, the majority of the largest film, print and electronic media are owned or deeply influenced by Jewish-Zionist media moguls who are committed to slanting the 'news' in favor of Israel. The composition and influence of the ZPC is central to understanding three main characteristics of Israel's power: (1) Israel can commit what leading United Nations and international human rights experts have defined as 'crimes against humanity' with total impunity; (2) Israel can secure an unlimited supply of the most technologically advanced and destructive weapons and use them without limit on a civilian population in violation of even US Congressional restrictions and (3) scores of almost unanimous United Nations condemnations of the construction of genocidal apartheid barriers against a native population, starvation embargoes and the current extermination campaign in Gaza are always vetoed by the US representative.
Many critics of Israel's genocide in Gaza also condemn what they call 'the complicity' of Washington or 'the United States' without clearly identifying the actual socio-political forces influencing policy-makers or the 'dual' political loyalties and identities of the 'American' politicians who have long-standing and deep allegiances to Israel. As a consequence, most critics fail to counter, protest or even identify the ideology and politics of the organized power configurations which define US complicity with Israel, who intimidate potential critics, who write and mouth the pro-Israel editorials in the mass media and who filter out any criticism, any trutheven when Israel engages in sustained bloody extermination campaigns.
The ZPC and the Israeli War of Extermination in Gaza
The ZPC played a major role in all stages of Israel's extermination campaign against Gaza including a sustained propaganda effort. The ZPC orchestrated a massive successful campaign through the extensive network of American mass media, which it controls and influences. It fabricated an image of the Hamas administration in Gaza as a terrorist organization, which allegedly seized power through violence totally denying its rise to power through internationally supervised, democratic elections and its defense of its electoral mandate against a US-Israeli backed PLO military takeover. The entire Zionist Jewish leadership backed Israel's land grabs, its ghetto wall around Palestinians, the hundreds of road blocks, the Jewish settlers violently taking over Palestinian homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the criminal, genocidal Israeli economic embargo on Gaza designed to systematically starve the Palestinians into submission. Throughout the two years of this Israeli extermination campaign, American Zionists played a major role in leading the servile US government at home and abroad in backing each totalitarian measure: The vast majority of local synagogues became bully-pulpits defending the starvation and degradation of 1.5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza caged on all sides by deadly force and the 'walling off' into economically and socially devastating cantons of the 4.5 million West Bank Palestinian population under foreign occupation.
The US Congress shamelessly followed the Zionist lead, backing every single criminal measure taken by the State of Israel and approving dozens of resolutions, which in most cases were entirely written by AIPAC lobbyists acting as unregistered agents of the Israeli government (contrary to US federal statute, which requires foreign agents and lobbyists to be registered as such). Israel's demands for the most up-to-date US warplanes, including F-16s, Apache helicopter gun ships, and 1,000 pound bombs were secured by dint of effort of the AIPAC lobbyists and their clients in the US Congress. In other words, the American ZPC created the ideological cover and military instruments for Israel's 'total war' against the defenseless Palestinian population. Equally important, prominent Zionist leaders in the US Congress and members of the foreign policy establishment blocked or vetoed any international criticism of Israel securing its impunity and immunity from any of the Congressional sanctions usually enacted against criminal states. In other words, Israeli policy makers operated with the knowledge that there would be no negative economic, diplomatic and military repercussions to their launching the planned Gaza extermination campaign because they knew, in advance, that 'their people' were in total control of US Middle East policy to the extent of actually repeating verbatim each and every propaganda lie in defense of Israel's total war against the entire population of Gaza.
In Defense of Israel's War of Extermination
The Zionist-controlled US print media, in particular the New York Times and the Washington Post, systematically fabricated an account that fit perfectly with Israel's official line defending its massive assault on Gaza: Omitting any historical account of the hundreds of Israeli armed incursions and 'targeted' assassinations of Palestinian leaders and officials (even in their own homes) which repeatedly violated the 'cease fire' agreed by Hamas and provoked its retaliation in self-defense of its people; omitting the years of an Israeli enforced starvation embargo of food and essentials that threatened the lives of 1.5 million Palestinians and led to the desperate efforts of the elected Hamas leadership to secure supplies for the people's survival via tunnels across the Egyptian border and through missile attacks against Israel to pressure the Jewish state to negotiate an end of the criminal blockade.
The Conference of Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, and the vast majority of Jewish communal groups and congregations, gave enthusiastic and unanimous support to Israel's total war, its extermination campaign against the captive Palestinian population of Gaza. Even as images and reports of the massive destruction, killing and wounding of over 2,500 defenseless Palestinians filtered in the mass media, not a single major Jewish organization broke ranks; only individuals and small groups protested. All the 'Majors' persisted in the politics of the Big Lie: the destruction of hospitals, mosques, universities, roads, apartments, pharmacies and fishing ports were all labeled 'Hamas targets'. The systematic all-out assault by uncontested helicopter gunships against 1.5 millions civilians was erased by tendentious accounts of Hamas' homemade missiles falling ineffectively near Israeli towns.
A close reading of the most important propaganda organ of the PMAJO, The Daily Alert (TDA), during the first 5 days of Israel's assault, reveals the propaganda tack taken by the leadership of the pro-Israel power configuration. TDA systematically worked to achieve the following:
1.
Exaggerate the threats to Israel by the Palestinian missiles from Gaza, citing 4 Israeli deaths, while omitting any mention of the 2,500 Palestinian dead and wounded and the total destruction of their economy and living conditions (without safe water, electricity, food, cooking fuel, medicine and heat in the winter)
2.
Promote Israel's military assault as 'defensive', directed at eliminating Hamas rocket attacks while omitting mention of Israel's clearly stated purpose of destroying all civil organizations, social welfare agencies, educational facilities, medical clinics and public security institutions connected in any way with the elected Hamas government and any auxiliary agencies.
3.
Cite select statement from Israel's allies and clients (Washington, the US media, Germany and the UK) blaming Hamas for the conflict without mentioning the vast majority of countries in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Israel's brutality.
4.
Reproduce Israeli slanders against any and all international human rights leaders and organizations that condemn the Jewish state's policy of genocide against the native Palestinians. In this regard, TDA is the foremost 'genocide denier' in the United States and, perhaps outside of Israel, in the world.
5.
Repeatedly cite Israeli political and military leaders' claims of acting 'with restraint', 'safeguarding civilians', and 'targeting military objectives', even in the face of reports and images of mass civilian destruction and loss of life documented in the vast majority of (non-US) Western media.
6.
Defend every Israeli bombing mission, every day, every hour, of every building, every home, and every economic, religious and educational institution in Gaza as 'defensive' or a 'reprisal', all the while quoting some of the most notorious, unconditional, perennial apologists of Israeli violence as if they were unbiased intellectuals, including Benny 'Nuke Tehran' Morris, Marty Peretz and Amos Oz
7.
The Daily Alert quotes US writers, journalists and editors who praise and defend Israel's 'total war' without identifying their long-standing affiliation and identification with Zionist organizations, giving the false image of a wide spectrum of opinion behind the assault. Never has even the most moderate Jewish or Gentile critic of Israel's massive extermination campaign appeared in any issues of The Daily Alert.
The principle American Jewish organizations have bombarded the US Congress, influencing, intimidating and purchasing the craven so-called 'representatives' of the American people, the media and public notables with lies in defense of Israel's total war to exterminate a people. Their public, brazen, open complicity in genocide can be considered crime against humanity: The willful promotion of acts of a state designed to destroy an entire people.
And yet these willing accomplices, these 'willing executioners' of state mass murder go uncontested within the US political class. One of their leading mouthpieces in the incoming Obama Administration, Chief Presidential Adviser David Axelrod, even cites an Obama campaign speech defending Israeli assaults on the people of Gaza.
Israel arrogantly repudiates all calls to end this mass murder, because Israel knows that 'its people' are still in control of US policy toward the Middle East and will use their power in the new president's administration to block any condemnation of this crime.
To date the entire human rights and anti-war movements have failed to even mention, let along challenge, the most powerful propaganda and political organizations, which influence US policy and manipulate the mass media in favor of Israel's extermination campaign. They will play no restraining role on Israel's totalitarian policies as long as its principle US backers are free to lie, manipulate and defend each and every crime.
There is little hope for an independent US Congressional policy as long as Israel's war of extermination in Gaza can be defended by the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (and Zionist zealot) Congressman Howard Berman in the following terms: "Israel has a right, indeed a duty, to defend itself in response to the hundreds of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza over the past week. No government in world would sit by and allow its citizens to be subjected to this kind of indiscriminate bombardment. The loss of innocent life is a terribly tragedy and the blame for that tragedy lies with Hamas." Thus Congressman Berman cynically omits the 2 years of Israel's embargo, the daily 'targeted' assassinations of Palestinians, the 'targeted' missile attacks against civilians, the land, sea and air blockades and the blatant 'targeted' destruction of the infrastructure of Gaza. No government, indeed a democratically elected Islamist government, can stand by while its people are starved and murdered into submission. But according to the respected Congressmen Bermans of the world,only the lives of Jews matter, not the growing thousands of murdered, dismembered and mutilated citizens of Gaza they do not count as people!
What is to be Done
Israel's crimes against humanity demand a public response: social action, which will force it to cease and desist from its campaign to exterminate the people of Gaza. Because the Jewish state has assaulted a vast array of Palestinian social institutions, which resonate with those in our own society, we can and should mobilize them to condemn and boycott their counterparts in Israel:
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We should urge the entire academic community to denounce Israel's bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza and the total destruction of all of its science facilities. An organized boycott of Israeli universities and all academic exchanges, especially scientific, should become university policy throughout the country. Special attention should be paid to the 450 US university presidents, who in the recent past, denounced a call by British academics for a boycott and who remain silent and complicit in the face of Israel's total physical annihilation of all ten faculties for 20,000 Palestinian university students
2.
All American health workers, doctors, nurses, technicians, should organize and denounce Israel's medical embargo against the 1.5 million Palestinians crowded into the Gaza Strip. They must condemn Israel's bombardment of Gaza's Children's Hospital, the neighborhood pharmacies and the attacks on any transport of those critically wounded Palestinian victims of its aerial and missile attacks. Medical personnel should raise the fundamental ethical issues regarding the collaboration of US medical personnel and programs with the Jewish State's 'total war' policies of extermination.
3.
All citizens should demand the end of all US military aid to Israel, especially F-16 fighter planes, Apache attack helicopters, missiles, 1000 pound 'bunker buster' bombs used by the Israeli armed forces on the civilian infrastructure of Gaza and the murder and maiming of over 2,500 Palestinians, civilians, civil servants, police and national militia. In pursuit of a cutoff of US military aid to Israel, every effort should be made to target and denounce the most forceful, aggressive and successful Zionist advocates and lobbyists who influence the elected members of the US Congress and White House on foreign military aid budgets. No progress in ending US military aid for Israel's ethnic cleansing will succeed unless the peace movement and others appalled by Israel's mass murder tackles the Zionist lobby head on. This includes boycotts, rebuttals and demonstrations against the AIPAC, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League and the other 50 leading American Jewish organizations, which initiate and secure US governmental endorsement of Israel's extermination policies.
4.
US religious institutions should forcefully denounce Israel's crimes against humanity, including its demolition of 5 mosques, uniting all faiths (Christian, Moslem, Buddhist) and especially reaching out to the tiny minority of rabbis and observant Jews willing to forthrightly denounce the totalitarian practices of the Israeli state.
5.
Port and long shore workers, sailors and other maritime workers and officials should boycott the handling of all trade with Israel and denounce its Navy's violent illegal assault, in international waters, of civilian fishing boats and vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. No ships carrying Israeli products should be loaded or unloaded as long as Israel maintains its criminal military blockade of the port facilities of Gaza.
6.
Tens of millions of US citizens subject to the one-sided pro-Israel bias of the electronic and print media, the lop-sided presentations of Zionist 'op-ed' writers, 'news' reports and the self-styled Middle East experts, should demand equal time, coverage and reportage for non-Zionist specialists, analysts and commentators. We should demand the end of euphemisms and fabrications, which convert victims into aggressors and exterminators into victims.
7.
We should wage a battle of ideas everywhere (in every public forum) against the efforts by the Zionist Power Configuration to monopolize discussion over the Israeli policy of genocide, to censor, intimidate and slander critics of Israeli apartheid as UN General Assembly President Manuel d'Escoto so aptly calls Israel's Ghetto Wall surrounding Palestinian villages. The outpouring of public protest over Israel's war of extermination is an enormous step forward in countering the Zionist monopoly of the mass media and encouraging the tens of millions of Americans who clearly recognize and privately despise Israel's crimes against humanity and resent the local Zionist elite's thuggery against those who speak out. Mass pressure on elected representative may sway some to reconsider their abject servility to their Zionist 'contributors' and their 'Israel First' Congressional colleagues.
8.
A patriotic nationwide campaign should demand that the Israel lobby, especially AIPAC, come clean and register as a foreign agent of the State of Israel. This might undermine the Lobby's appeal to American Jews, reduce its influence over Congress and open up judicial processes and investigations over its abuse of tax-exemptions, money-laundering and lead to revelations over its treasonous procurement of confidential US state documents for a foreign power. There is a powerful political and legal basis for such a denial of the 'Lobby's' tax-exempt status and legality, apart from the transparent and overwhelming evidence that all Zionist organizations act as transmission belts for Israeli state policies: In the early 1950's up to 1963, the forerunner of AIPAC was obligated to register as a foreign agent of the State of Israel. More recently, an Israeli prosecutor presented evidence that the Israeli-Jewish Agency and its US counterparts were laundering billions of dollars especially for the funding of Israeli colonial settlements on occupied Palestinian land, condemned as illegal under international law. Congressional hearings, law suits and further published research would reveal the role of the Lobby as a Fifth Column for the State of Israel against the interest of the people of the United States.
Until we neutralize the pervasive power of the Zionist Power Configuration in all of its manifestations in American public and civic life and its deep penetration of American legislative and executive offices, we will fall short of preventing Israel from receiving the arms, funding and political backing to sustain its wars of ethnic extermination.
When told that the great majority of the world's people are sickened and incensed by Israel's mass murder of the citizens of Gaza, we can easily imagine the contemptuous dismissal by Israel's top leaders, paraphrasing Joseph Stalin: How many bombers, missiles, fighter planes and powerful lobbies do they (the outraged people of the world) have?
James Petras is the author of Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, Clarity Press 2008.
Extermination Campaign - Backers, Apologists And Arms Suppliers
By Prof. James Petras
1-5-9
Introduction
Because of the unconditional support of the entire political class in the US, from the White House to Congress, including both Parties, incoming and outgoing elected officials and all the principle print and electronic mass media, the Israeli Government feels no compunction in publicly proclaiming a detailed and graphic account of its policy of mass extermination of the population of Gaza.
Israel's sustained and comprehensive bombing campaign of every aspect of governance, civic institutions and society is directed toward destroying civilized life in Gaza. Israel's totalitarian vision is driven by the practice of a permanent purge of Arab Palestine informed by Zionism, an ethno-racist ideology, promulgated by the Jewish state and justified, enforced and pursued by its organized backers in the United States.
The facts of Israeli extermination have become known: In the first six days of round the clock terror bombing of major and minor populations centers, the Jewish State has murdered and seriously maimed over 2,500 people, mostly dismembered and burned in the open ovens of missile fire. Scores of children and women have been slaughtered as well as defenseless civilians and officials.
They have sealed off all access to Gaza and declared it a military, free fire zone, while expanding their target to include the entire population of 1.5 millions semi-starved prisoners. According to the Boston Globe (December 30, 2008): Israeli military officials said their target lists have expanded to include the vast support network on which the Islamist movement relies to stay in power "we are trying to hit the whole spectrum, because everything is connected and everything supports terrorism against Israel (my emphasis)". A top Israeli in its secret police apparatus is quoted saying, "Hamas' civilian infrastructure is a very sensitive target" (ibid). What the Israeli Jewish politicians and military planners designate as "Hamas" is the entire social service network, the entire government and the vast majority of economic activity, embracing almost the entire 1.5 million imprisoned residents of Gaza.
Israel's 'target' list thus involves the 'total population', using the totality of its non-nuclear weaponry and for an unlimited time period (until the 'bitter end' according to the Israeli Prime Minister). Israel's defense ministry spokesman has emphatically reiterated the Jewish's state's totalitarian war concept emphasizing the targeting of civilians: "Hamas has used ostensibly civilian operations as a cover for military activities. Anything affiliated with Hamas is a legitimate target."
Like all totalitarians in the past, the Jewish state boasts of having systematically pre-planned the extermination campaign months in advance up to and including the precise hour and day of the bombing to coincide with inflicting the maximum murder of civilians: The rockets and bombs fell as children were leaving school, as graduating police cadets were receiving their diplomas and as frantic mothers ran out from their homes to find their sons and daughters.
The mass military extermination campaign was a follow up of its non-stop total economic embargo and unremitting selective assassination campaign of the previous two years: Both were designed to purge Palestine of its Arab population, first via mass hunger, disease, humiliation and violent intimidation and the proxy power grab by the PLO Quislings under Zionist puppet Abbas. When they discovered that mass hunger and selective Israeli murder only strengthened the population's links to its democratically elected government and the resolve of the Hamas government to resist Israel, the Israeli regimes unleashed its entire arsenal of weapons, including its new 'American gifts' up-to-date 1000 pound 'bunker buster' bombs and high tech missiles to incinerate large numbers of human beings within their deadly radius and to obliterate Palestinian civilization.
Moving directly from its totalitarian vision to its military blueprint to the savaging of Palestinian population centers, the Jewish state destroyed the principle university with over 18,000 students (mostly women), mosques, pharmacies, electrical and water lines, power stations, fishing villages, fishing boats and the little fishing port that provided a meager supply of fish for the starving population. They destroyed roads, transport facilities, food warehouses, science buildings, small factories, shops and apartments. They destroyed a women's dormitory at the university. In the words of the Israel leader: "because everything is connected to everything" it is necessary to destroy each and every facet of life, which allows humans to exist with some dignity and independence.
The Israeli totalitarian leaders knew with confidence that they could act and they could kill with impunity, locally and before the entire world, because of the influence of the USZionist Power Configuration in and over the US White House and Congress. They knew they had the full backing of all the major Israeli political parties (Right, Left and Center), trade unions, mass media and especially public opinion. Israeli state terror is backed by 81% of Jewish Israelis according to a poll taken by Israel's Channel 10 (Financial Times December 30, 2008). Israeli totalitarian violence and extermination of Palestinians is extremely popular among the Jewish electorate, especially in raising support for the Labor Party candidate MinisterEhud Barak. They knew they would 'succeed' with virtually no casualties because they bombed, burned and dismembered a defenseless population totally lacking the minimum means to defend themselves from F16 bombers, helicopter gun ships and missile assaults. The vile depravity of the assault on the defenseless population is matched by the utter cowardice of the Israeli military command and its cheering bloodthirsty public ensconced behind their aerial monopoly. They suffered no threats of aerial retaliation, no wounded or dead pilots, helicopter gunners, as wave after wave swept in and over a defenseless imprisoned population in a crowded and besieged ghetto.
Hundreds of tanks and armored carriers are prepared to invade once the cities and towns have been leveled, once the population is too weakened by starvation to resist, once the leaders and fighters have been murdered and the normal Palestinian institutions of law and order have been pulverized, making way for the corrupt thuggish collaborators of the so-called Palestinian Authoritythen and only then, will the Israeli General staff risk the skin of a precious Jewish 'soldier' and risk the anxiety and worry of their kin in Israel and the US.
Overseas Allies: The Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO)
From the moment that the Israeli Government decided it would destroy the newly elected Hamas government and punish the democratic electorate of Gaza with starvation and murder, the entire Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) in the US, including the PMAJO, pulled all stops in implementing the Israeli policy. The PMAJO encompasses the fifty-two Jewish organizations with the largest membership, with the greatest financial clout and the most influential backers. The most prominent lobbyist within the PMAJO is AIPAC, which has over 100,000 members and 150 full-time operatives in Washington actively pressuring the US Congress, the White House and all administrative agencies whose policies may relate to the interests of the State of Israel. However Israeli political extends far beyond its non-governmental agencies. Over two score legislators in the Congress and over a dozen senators are committed Zionists who automatically back Israel's policies and push for US funding and armaments for its military machine. Top officials in key administrative positions, in Treasury, Commerce and the National Security Council, senior functionaries in the Pentagon and top advisers on Middle East affairs are also life-long, fanatically committed Zionists, who consistently and unreservedly back the policies of the State of Israel.
Equally important, the majority of the largest film, print and electronic media are owned or deeply influenced by Jewish-Zionist media moguls who are committed to slanting the 'news' in favor of Israel. The composition and influence of the ZPC is central to understanding three main characteristics of Israel's power: (1) Israel can commit what leading United Nations and international human rights experts have defined as 'crimes against humanity' with total impunity; (2) Israel can secure an unlimited supply of the most technologically advanced and destructive weapons and use them without limit on a civilian population in violation of even US Congressional restrictions and (3) scores of almost unanimous United Nations condemnations of the construction of genocidal apartheid barriers against a native population, starvation embargoes and the current extermination campaign in Gaza are always vetoed by the US representative.
Many critics of Israel's genocide in Gaza also condemn what they call 'the complicity' of Washington or 'the United States' without clearly identifying the actual socio-political forces influencing policy-makers or the 'dual' political loyalties and identities of the 'American' politicians who have long-standing and deep allegiances to Israel. As a consequence, most critics fail to counter, protest or even identify the ideology and politics of the organized power configurations which define US complicity with Israel, who intimidate potential critics, who write and mouth the pro-Israel editorials in the mass media and who filter out any criticism, any trutheven when Israel engages in sustained bloody extermination campaigns.
The ZPC and the Israeli War of Extermination in Gaza
The ZPC played a major role in all stages of Israel's extermination campaign against Gaza including a sustained propaganda effort. The ZPC orchestrated a massive successful campaign through the extensive network of American mass media, which it controls and influences. It fabricated an image of the Hamas administration in Gaza as a terrorist organization, which allegedly seized power through violence totally denying its rise to power through internationally supervised, democratic elections and its defense of its electoral mandate against a US-Israeli backed PLO military takeover. The entire Zionist Jewish leadership backed Israel's land grabs, its ghetto wall around Palestinians, the hundreds of road blocks, the Jewish settlers violently taking over Palestinian homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the criminal, genocidal Israeli economic embargo on Gaza designed to systematically starve the Palestinians into submission. Throughout the two years of this Israeli extermination campaign, American Zionists played a major role in leading the servile US government at home and abroad in backing each totalitarian measure: The vast majority of local synagogues became bully-pulpits defending the starvation and degradation of 1.5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza caged on all sides by deadly force and the 'walling off' into economically and socially devastating cantons of the 4.5 million West Bank Palestinian population under foreign occupation.
The US Congress shamelessly followed the Zionist lead, backing every single criminal measure taken by the State of Israel and approving dozens of resolutions, which in most cases were entirely written by AIPAC lobbyists acting as unregistered agents of the Israeli government (contrary to US federal statute, which requires foreign agents and lobbyists to be registered as such). Israel's demands for the most up-to-date US warplanes, including F-16s, Apache helicopter gun ships, and 1,000 pound bombs were secured by dint of effort of the AIPAC lobbyists and their clients in the US Congress. In other words, the American ZPC created the ideological cover and military instruments for Israel's 'total war' against the defenseless Palestinian population. Equally important, prominent Zionist leaders in the US Congress and members of the foreign policy establishment blocked or vetoed any international criticism of Israel securing its impunity and immunity from any of the Congressional sanctions usually enacted against criminal states. In other words, Israeli policy makers operated with the knowledge that there would be no negative economic, diplomatic and military repercussions to their launching the planned Gaza extermination campaign because they knew, in advance, that 'their people' were in total control of US Middle East policy to the extent of actually repeating verbatim each and every propaganda lie in defense of Israel's total war against the entire population of Gaza.
In Defense of Israel's War of Extermination
The Zionist-controlled US print media, in particular the New York Times and the Washington Post, systematically fabricated an account that fit perfectly with Israel's official line defending its massive assault on Gaza: Omitting any historical account of the hundreds of Israeli armed incursions and 'targeted' assassinations of Palestinian leaders and officials (even in their own homes) which repeatedly violated the 'cease fire' agreed by Hamas and provoked its retaliation in self-defense of its people; omitting the years of an Israeli enforced starvation embargo of food and essentials that threatened the lives of 1.5 million Palestinians and led to the desperate efforts of the elected Hamas leadership to secure supplies for the people's survival via tunnels across the Egyptian border and through missile attacks against Israel to pressure the Jewish state to negotiate an end of the criminal blockade.
The Conference of Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, and the vast majority of Jewish communal groups and congregations, gave enthusiastic and unanimous support to Israel's total war, its extermination campaign against the captive Palestinian population of Gaza. Even as images and reports of the massive destruction, killing and wounding of over 2,500 defenseless Palestinians filtered in the mass media, not a single major Jewish organization broke ranks; only individuals and small groups protested. All the 'Majors' persisted in the politics of the Big Lie: the destruction of hospitals, mosques, universities, roads, apartments, pharmacies and fishing ports were all labeled 'Hamas targets'. The systematic all-out assault by uncontested helicopter gunships against 1.5 millions civilians was erased by tendentious accounts of Hamas' homemade missiles falling ineffectively near Israeli towns.
A close reading of the most important propaganda organ of the PMAJO, The Daily Alert (TDA), during the first 5 days of Israel's assault, reveals the propaganda tack taken by the leadership of the pro-Israel power configuration. TDA systematically worked to achieve the following:
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Exaggerate the threats to Israel by the Palestinian missiles from Gaza, citing 4 Israeli deaths, while omitting any mention of the 2,500 Palestinian dead and wounded and the total destruction of their economy and living conditions (without safe water, electricity, food, cooking fuel, medicine and heat in the winter)
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Promote Israel's military assault as 'defensive', directed at eliminating Hamas rocket attacks while omitting mention of Israel's clearly stated purpose of destroying all civil organizations, social welfare agencies, educational facilities, medical clinics and public security institutions connected in any way with the elected Hamas government and any auxiliary agencies.
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Cite select statement from Israel's allies and clients (Washington, the US media, Germany and the UK) blaming Hamas for the conflict without mentioning the vast majority of countries in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Israel's brutality.
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Reproduce Israeli slanders against any and all international human rights leaders and organizations that condemn the Jewish state's policy of genocide against the native Palestinians. In this regard, TDA is the foremost 'genocide denier' in the United States and, perhaps outside of Israel, in the world.
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Repeatedly cite Israeli political and military leaders' claims of acting 'with restraint', 'safeguarding civilians', and 'targeting military objectives', even in the face of reports and images of mass civilian destruction and loss of life documented in the vast majority of (non-US) Western media.
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Defend every Israeli bombing mission, every day, every hour, of every building, every home, and every economic, religious and educational institution in Gaza as 'defensive' or a 'reprisal', all the while quoting some of the most notorious, unconditional, perennial apologists of Israeli violence as if they were unbiased intellectuals, including Benny 'Nuke Tehran' Morris, Marty Peretz and Amos Oz
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The Daily Alert quotes US writers, journalists and editors who praise and defend Israel's 'total war' without identifying their long-standing affiliation and identification with Zionist organizations, giving the false image of a wide spectrum of opinion behind the assault. Never has even the most moderate Jewish or Gentile critic of Israel's massive extermination campaign appeared in any issues of The Daily Alert.
The principle American Jewish organizations have bombarded the US Congress, influencing, intimidating and purchasing the craven so-called 'representatives' of the American people, the media and public notables with lies in defense of Israel's total war to exterminate a people. Their public, brazen, open complicity in genocide can be considered crime against humanity: The willful promotion of acts of a state designed to destroy an entire people.
And yet these willing accomplices, these 'willing executioners' of state mass murder go uncontested within the US political class. One of their leading mouthpieces in the incoming Obama Administration, Chief Presidential Adviser David Axelrod, even cites an Obama campaign speech defending Israeli assaults on the people of Gaza.
Israel arrogantly repudiates all calls to end this mass murder, because Israel knows that 'its people' are still in control of US policy toward the Middle East and will use their power in the new president's administration to block any condemnation of this crime.
To date the entire human rights and anti-war movements have failed to even mention, let along challenge, the most powerful propaganda and political organizations, which influence US policy and manipulate the mass media in favor of Israel's extermination campaign. They will play no restraining role on Israel's totalitarian policies as long as its principle US backers are free to lie, manipulate and defend each and every crime.
There is little hope for an independent US Congressional policy as long as Israel's war of extermination in Gaza can be defended by the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (and Zionist zealot) Congressman Howard Berman in the following terms: "Israel has a right, indeed a duty, to defend itself in response to the hundreds of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza over the past week. No government in world would sit by and allow its citizens to be subjected to this kind of indiscriminate bombardment. The loss of innocent life is a terribly tragedy and the blame for that tragedy lies with Hamas." Thus Congressman Berman cynically omits the 2 years of Israel's embargo, the daily 'targeted' assassinations of Palestinians, the 'targeted' missile attacks against civilians, the land, sea and air blockades and the blatant 'targeted' destruction of the infrastructure of Gaza. No government, indeed a democratically elected Islamist government, can stand by while its people are starved and murdered into submission. But according to the respected Congressmen Bermans of the world,only the lives of Jews matter, not the growing thousands of murdered, dismembered and mutilated citizens of Gaza they do not count as people!
What is to be Done
Israel's crimes against humanity demand a public response: social action, which will force it to cease and desist from its campaign to exterminate the people of Gaza. Because the Jewish state has assaulted a vast array of Palestinian social institutions, which resonate with those in our own society, we can and should mobilize them to condemn and boycott their counterparts in Israel:
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We should urge the entire academic community to denounce Israel's bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza and the total destruction of all of its science facilities. An organized boycott of Israeli universities and all academic exchanges, especially scientific, should become university policy throughout the country. Special attention should be paid to the 450 US university presidents, who in the recent past, denounced a call by British academics for a boycott and who remain silent and complicit in the face of Israel's total physical annihilation of all ten faculties for 20,000 Palestinian university students
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All American health workers, doctors, nurses, technicians, should organize and denounce Israel's medical embargo against the 1.5 million Palestinians crowded into the Gaza Strip. They must condemn Israel's bombardment of Gaza's Children's Hospital, the neighborhood pharmacies and the attacks on any transport of those critically wounded Palestinian victims of its aerial and missile attacks. Medical personnel should raise the fundamental ethical issues regarding the collaboration of US medical personnel and programs with the Jewish State's 'total war' policies of extermination.
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All citizens should demand the end of all US military aid to Israel, especially F-16 fighter planes, Apache attack helicopters, missiles, 1000 pound 'bunker buster' bombs used by the Israeli armed forces on the civilian infrastructure of Gaza and the murder and maiming of over 2,500 Palestinians, civilians, civil servants, police and national militia. In pursuit of a cutoff of US military aid to Israel, every effort should be made to target and denounce the most forceful, aggressive and successful Zionist advocates and lobbyists who influence the elected members of the US Congress and White House on foreign military aid budgets. No progress in ending US military aid for Israel's ethnic cleansing will succeed unless the peace movement and others appalled by Israel's mass murder tackles the Zionist lobby head on. This includes boycotts, rebuttals and demonstrations against the AIPAC, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League and the other 50 leading American Jewish organizations, which initiate and secure US governmental endorsement of Israel's extermination policies.
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US religious institutions should forcefully denounce Israel's crimes against humanity, including its demolition of 5 mosques, uniting all faiths (Christian, Moslem, Buddhist) and especially reaching out to the tiny minority of rabbis and observant Jews willing to forthrightly denounce the totalitarian practices of the Israeli state.
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Port and long shore workers, sailors and other maritime workers and officials should boycott the handling of all trade with Israel and denounce its Navy's violent illegal assault, in international waters, of civilian fishing boats and vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. No ships carrying Israeli products should be loaded or unloaded as long as Israel maintains its criminal military blockade of the port facilities of Gaza.
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Tens of millions of US citizens subject to the one-sided pro-Israel bias of the electronic and print media, the lop-sided presentations of Zionist 'op-ed' writers, 'news' reports and the self-styled Middle East experts, should demand equal time, coverage and reportage for non-Zionist specialists, analysts and commentators. We should demand the end of euphemisms and fabrications, which convert victims into aggressors and exterminators into victims.
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We should wage a battle of ideas everywhere (in every public forum) against the efforts by the Zionist Power Configuration to monopolize discussion over the Israeli policy of genocide, to censor, intimidate and slander critics of Israeli apartheid as UN General Assembly President Manuel d'Escoto so aptly calls Israel's Ghetto Wall surrounding Palestinian villages. The outpouring of public protest over Israel's war of extermination is an enormous step forward in countering the Zionist monopoly of the mass media and encouraging the tens of millions of Americans who clearly recognize and privately despise Israel's crimes against humanity and resent the local Zionist elite's thuggery against those who speak out. Mass pressure on elected representative may sway some to reconsider their abject servility to their Zionist 'contributors' and their 'Israel First' Congressional colleagues.
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A patriotic nationwide campaign should demand that the Israel lobby, especially AIPAC, come clean and register as a foreign agent of the State of Israel. This might undermine the Lobby's appeal to American Jews, reduce its influence over Congress and open up judicial processes and investigations over its abuse of tax-exemptions, money-laundering and lead to revelations over its treasonous procurement of confidential US state documents for a foreign power. There is a powerful political and legal basis for such a denial of the 'Lobby's' tax-exempt status and legality, apart from the transparent and overwhelming evidence that all Zionist organizations act as transmission belts for Israeli state policies: In the early 1950's up to 1963, the forerunner of AIPAC was obligated to register as a foreign agent of the State of Israel. More recently, an Israeli prosecutor presented evidence that the Israeli-Jewish Agency and its US counterparts were laundering billions of dollars especially for the funding of Israeli colonial settlements on occupied Palestinian land, condemned as illegal under international law. Congressional hearings, law suits and further published research would reveal the role of the Lobby as a Fifth Column for the State of Israel against the interest of the people of the United States.
Until we neutralize the pervasive power of the Zionist Power Configuration in all of its manifestations in American public and civic life and its deep penetration of American legislative and executive offices, we will fall short of preventing Israel from receiving the arms, funding and political backing to sustain its wars of ethnic extermination.
When told that the great majority of the world's people are sickened and incensed by Israel's mass murder of the citizens of Gaza, we can easily imagine the contemptuous dismissal by Israel's top leaders, paraphrasing Joseph Stalin: How many bombers, missiles, fighter planes and powerful lobbies do they (the outraged people of the world) have?
James Petras is the author of Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, Clarity Press 2008.
La política de un israelí
Campaña de exterminio -- Responsables, apologistas y proveedores de armas
Por el Prof. James Petras
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Introducción
Debido a el apoyo incondicional de toda la clase política en los EE.UU., desde la Casa Blanca al Congreso, incluyendo las dos Partes, las entradas y salidas de todos los funcionarios electos y el principio de impresión y los medios de comunicación electrónicos, el Gobierno de Israel se siente ningún reparo en proclamar públicamente una cuenta detallada y gráfica de su política de exterminio en masa de la población de Gaza.
De Israel y global sostenida campaña de bombardeos de cada uno de los aspectos de la gobernanza, las instituciones cívicas y la sociedad se dirige hacia la destrucción de la vida civilizada en Gaza. Visión totalitaria de Israel se basa en la práctica de una depuración permanente de Palestina árabe informado por el sionismo, una ideología etno-racista, promulgada por el Estado judío y justificada, forzada y perseguidos por sus partidarios organizados en los Estados Unidos.
Los hechos de exterminio de Israel se han convertido en conocidos: En los primeros seis días de las veinticuatro horas del día de terror y los bombardeos de los principales centros de población menor de edad, el Estado judío ha asesinado y mutilado gravemente a más de 2.500 personas, en su mayoría desmembrados y quemados en hornos de abrir el fuego de misiles . Resultados de los niños y las mujeres han sido sacrificados, así como los civiles indefensos y los funcionarios.
Han cerrado todos los accesos a Gaza y declaró que un militar, la zona libre de fuego, mientras que la ampliación de su objetivo para incluir la totalidad de la población de 1,5 millones de semi-hambre presos. Según el Boston Globe (30 de diciembre de 2008): los funcionarios militares israelíes dijeron que sus listas de destinatarios se han ampliado para incluir la amplia red de apoyo en que el movimiento islamista se basa para permanecer en el poder "que estamos intentando golpear a todo el espectro, porque todo es conectado y todo lo que apoya el terrorismo contra Israel (el subrayado es mío) ". Un israelí en su aparato de policía secreta es citado diciendo, "Hamas' la infraestructura civil es una meta muy sensible" (ibid.). Lo que el judío israelí planificadores políticos y militares de designar como "Hamas" es toda la red de servicios sociales, todo el gobierno y la inmensa mayoría de la actividad económica, que abarca casi la totalidad de 1,5 millones de residentes de la cárcel de Gaza.
De Israel 'target', pues, supone la «población total», utilizando la totalidad de sus armas no nucleares y para un período de tiempo ilimitado (hasta que el «final amargo», de acuerdo con el Primer Ministro de Israel). Israel portavoz del Ministerio de Defensa ha reiterado enfáticamente los judíos del estado totalitario del concepto haciendo hincapié en la guerra los ataques contra civiles: "Hamas ha utilizado ostensiblemente las operaciones civiles como tapadera para actividades militares. Todo afiliado a Hamas es un blanco legítimo".
Al igual que todos los totalitarios en el pasado, el estado judío se jacta de haber planificado sistemáticamente antes de la campaña de exterminio meses de anticipación hasta la hora exacta y el día del atentado para que coincida con infligir el máximo de asesinato de civiles: Los cohetes y bombas cayeron como los niños abandonan la escuela, como se gradúan cadetes de la policía estaban recibiendo sus diplomas y como se quedó sin frenética madres de sus hogares para encontrar a sus hijos e hijas.
La campaña de exterminio en masa militar fue un seguimiento de su non-stop y el embargo económico total incesante campaña de asesinatos selectivos de los dos años anteriores: Ambos fueron diseñados para purgar Palestina de su población árabe, en primer lugar a través de la masa el hambre, la enfermedad, la humillación y la intimidación violenta y el representante de poder agarrar por la OLP en virtud de kiesling títere sionista Abbas. Cuando descubrieron que el hambre y la masa asesinato selectivo de Israel sólo ha fortalecido los vínculos de la población a su gobierno democráticamente elegido y la decisión de el gobierno de Hamas de resistir a Israel, los regímenes de Israel desencadenó la totalidad de su arsenal de armas, entre ellas su nuevo 'American regalos' de - hasta la fecha 1.000 libras "búnker Buster" bombas y misiles de alta tecnología de incineración de un gran número de seres humanos dentro de su radio y mortal de destruir la civilización palestino.
Mover directamente desde su visión totalitaria a su plan militar a la savaging centros de población palestina, el estado judío destruido el principio de la universidad con más de 18.000 estudiantes (en su mayoría mujeres), mezquitas, farmacias, líneas eléctricas y de agua, centrales eléctricas, las aldeas de pescadores, la pesca barcos y el pequeño puerto pesquero que proporcionó un escaso suministro de pescado para la población hambrienta. Destruyeron carreteras, medios de transporte, almacenes de alimentos, la ciencia edificios, pequeñas fábricas, tiendas y apartamentos. Destruyeron un dormitorio de la mujer en la universidad. En palabras del líder de Israel: "porque todo está conectado a todo lo que" es necesario destruir todos y cada uno de las facetas de la vida, que permite que los seres humanos a existir con dignidad e independencia.
Los dirigentes israelíes totalitario con la confianza de que sabían que podían actuar y que pueden matar con impunidad, a nivel local y antes de todo el mundo, debido a la influencia de la configuración de la alimentación USZionist en los EE.UU. y más de la Casa Blanca y el Congreso. Sabían que tenían el pleno respaldo de todos los principales partidos políticos israelíes (derecha, izquierda y centro), los sindicatos, los medios de comunicación y, sobre todo, la opinión pública. Terror de Estado de Israel es respaldada por el 81% de los judíos israelíes, según una encuesta de Israel Canal 10 (Financial Times, 30 de diciembre de 2008). La violencia totalitaria de Israel y el exterminio de los palestinos es muy popular entre el electorado judío, especialmente en el aumento de apoyo a la candidata del Partido del Trabajo MinisterEhud Barak. Sabían que 'éxito' que prácticamente no hay víctimas porque bombardeado, quemado y la desmembración de una población totalmente indefensos que carecen de los mínimos medios para defenderse de los bombarderos F16, helicópteros y buques pistola ataques de misiles. La depravación de la vil asalto a la indefensa población se corresponde con el total de la cobardía militar israelí y su mando vítores sanguinario público apostada detrás de su monopolio aéreo. No han sufrido amenazas de represalia aérea, sin heridos o muertos pilotos, helicópteros artilleros, como ola tras ola de barrido y encarcelados más de una población indefensa en un barrio popular y gueto sitiado.
Cientos de tanques y blindados, los transportistas están dispuestos a invadir una vez que las ciudades y pueblos han sido arrasados, una vez que la población está muy debilitado por el hambre de resistir, una vez que los dirigentes y combatientes han sido asesinados y el normal de las instituciones palestinas la ley y el orden han sido pulverizados , dando paso a los corruptos thuggish colaboradores del llamado palestino Authoritythen y sólo entonces, el General israelí riesgo personal de la piel de un precioso judío "soldado" y el riesgo de ansiedad y preocupación de sus familiares en Israel y los EE.UU..
Aliados en el exterior: Los Presidentes de las Principales Organizaciones Judías de América (PMAJO)
Desde el momento en que el Gobierno de Israel decidió que destruiría el recién elegido gobierno de Hamas y castigar a los electores democráticos de Gaza con la hambruna y el asesinato, toda la configuración de la alimentación Sionista (ZPC) en los EE.UU., incluida la PMAJO, tirado en la aplicación de todas las paradas de la la política israelí. El PMAJO abarca los cincuenta y dos organizaciones judías, con la mayor adhesión, con el mayor peso financiero y el más influyente de fondos. El más prominente en el grupo de presión que se PMAJO AIPAC, que cuenta con más de 100.000 miembros y 150 agentes a tiempo completo en Washington activamente presionando el Congreso de los EE.UU., la Casa Blanca y todos los organismos administrativos, cuyas políticas pueden referirse a los intereses del Estado de Israel. Sin embargo político israelí se extiende mucho más allá de sus organismos no gubernamentales. Puntuación de más de dos legisladores en el Congreso y más de una docena de senadores están comprometidos sionistas que automáticamente una copia de las políticas de Israel y EE.UU. para impulsar la financiación y el armamento para su aparato militar. Altos funcionarios en los principales puestos administrativos, en Hacienda, Comercio y el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional, altos funcionarios del Pentágono y altos asesores en asuntos del Oriente Medio también se lo largo de la vida, fanáticamente comprometido sionistas, que constantemente y sin reservas atrás las políticas del Estado de Israel.
Igualmente importante, la mayoría de las más grandes películas, los medios impresos y electrónicos son propiedad o están profundamente influidos por los medios de comunicación judía-sionista magnates que están comprometidos con la inclinación 'noticias' en favor de Israel. La composición y la influencia de la ZPC es fundamental para la comprensión de tres características principales de Israel, el poder de: (1) Israel puede cometer lo principal de las Naciones Unidas y expertos internacionales de derechos humanos han definido como "crímenes contra la humanidad 'con total impunidad; (2) Israel puede garantizar un suministro ilimitado de las tecnológicamente más avanzadas y destructivas armas y el uso sin límite de una población civil en violación incluso de las restricciones y del Congreso de EE.UU. (3) resultados de casi unánime condena de las Naciones Unidas de la construcción de barreras contra el apartheid genocida una población nativa , el hambre y los embargos de la actual campaña de exterminio en Gaza son siempre vetada por los EE.UU. representante.
Muchos críticos del genocidio de Israel en Gaza también condenan lo que ellos llaman "la complicidad" de Washington o de los Estados Unidos, sin identificación clara de la realidad socio-política fuerzas que influyen en la formulación de políticas o de la 'doble' lealtades políticas y la identidad de la "American "políticos que han de larga data y profunda lealtad a Israel. Como consecuencia, la mayoría de los críticos no para contrarrestar, la protesta o incluso identificar la ideología y la política del poder organizado configuraciones que definen EE.UU. complicidad con Israel, que intimidan a los posibles críticos, que escriben y la boca de la pro-Israel editoriales en los medios de comunicación y que filtrar cualquier crítica, cualquier trutheven cuando Israel realiza sostenido sangrientas campañas de exterminio.
La ZPC y la guerra de exterminio israelí en Gaza
La ZPC desempeñado un papel importante en todas las etapas de la campaña de exterminio de Israel contra Gaza, incluido un sostenido esfuerzo de propaganda. La ZPC orquestado una exitosa campaña masiva a través de la extensa red de medios de comunicación de América, que los controles y las influencias. Se fabricó una imagen de la administración de Hamas en Gaza como una organización terrorista, que supuestamente tomó el poder mediante la violencia totalmente negar su ascenso al poder por medio de supervisión internacional, elecciones democráticas y su defensa de su mandato electoral de Estados Unidos contra un israelí-respaldada OLP golpe militar. Todo el respaldo de liderazgo judío sionista de Israel de tierras, su gueto muro alrededor de los palestinos, los cientos de cortes de ruta, los colonos judíos violentamente teniendo más viviendas palestinas en la Ribera Occidental y Jerusalén oriental y el criminal y genocida bloqueo económico israelí en Gaza diseñado de manera sistemática de hambre a los palestinos en la presentación. A lo largo de los dos años de esta campaña de exterminio de Israel, los sionistas de América jugó un papel importante en la dirección de la servil gobierno de EE.UU. en el hogar y en el extranjero en cada respaldo totalitario medida: La gran mayoría de las sinagogas locales se convirtió en matón-la defensa de los púlpitos hambre y la degradación de 1,5 millones de los refugiados palestinos en Gaza enjaulado por todos lados por la fuerza y la 'compartimentar' en económica y socialmente devastador cantones de los 4,5 millones de Cisjordania población palestina bajo ocupación extranjera.
El Congreso de los EE.UU. descaradamente sionista siguió el plomo, el apoyo cada penal medida adoptada por el Estado de Israel y la aprobación de docenas de resoluciones, que en la mayoría de los casos eran totalmente escrita por AIPAC los grupos de presión que actúan como agentes no registrados del gobierno israelí (a diferencia de estatuto federal de los EE.UU. , que exige que los agentes extranjeros y grupos de presión para ser registradas como tales). Las demandas de Israel para los más actualizados EE.UU. aviones de combate, incluidos los F-16, helicópteros Apache pistola buques, y 1.000 libras de bombas fueron garantizados por medio de esfuerzo de los grupos de presión AIPAC y sus clientes en el Congreso de los EE.UU.. En otras palabras, la American ZPC creó el ideológico y militar de Israel de los instrumentos de "guerra total" contra la indefensa población palestina. Igualmente importante, prominentes líderes sionistas en el Congreso de los EE.UU. y los miembros de la política exterior o establecimiento bloqueado vetado cualquier crítica internacional de Israel para garantizar su impunidad y la inmunidad de cualquiera de las sanciones por lo general el Congreso promulgó en contra de Estados penal. En otras palabras, los encargados de la política israelí operado con el conocimiento de que no habrá efectos económicos, diplomáticos y militares a sus repercusiones previsto el lanzamiento de la campaña de exterminio de Gaza porque sabían, de antemano, que "su pueblo" en el control total de EE.UU. Medio Oriente política en la medida de hecho la repetición literal de todas y cada una mentira la propaganda en defensa de Israel de la guerra total contra la totalidad de la población de Gaza.
De Defensa de Israel en la Guerra de Exterminio
El sionista controlados EE.UU. medios de comunicación impresos, en particular, el New York Times y el Washington Post, sistemáticamente fabricó una cuenta que encajan perfectamente con la línea oficial de Israel de defender su asalto masivo en Gaza: La omisión de cualquier recuento histórico de los cientos de incursiones armadas israelíes y " dirigidos' asesinatos de dirigentes palestinos y los funcionarios (incluso en sus propios hogares) que en repetidas ocasiones violó el 'alto el fuego »acordado por Hamas y provocó represalias en su legítima defensa de su pueblo; la omisión de los años de un embargo de la inanición forzada israelí de los alimentos y esenciales que amenazan la vida de 1,5 millones de palestinos y ha llevado a los desesperados esfuerzos de los dirigentes de Hamas elegidos para garantizar los suministros para la supervivencia del pueblo a través de túneles a través de la frontera con Egipto ya través de ataques con misiles contra Israel para presionar al Estado judío a negociar el fin de la criminal bloqueo.
La Conferencia de Presidentes de las Principales Organizaciones Judías de América, y la gran mayoría de los grupos de la comunidad judía y las congregaciones, dio un apoyo unánime y entusiasta a la guerra total de Israel, su campaña de exterminio contra la población palestina de cautiverio en Gaza. Aun cuando las imágenes y los informes de la destrucción masiva, matando e hiriendo a más de 2.500 de los palestinos indefensos filtrado en los medios de comunicación, ni una sola gran organización judía rompieron filas, y sólo los individuos y pequeños grupos de protesta. Todos los «grandes» persiste en la política de la Gran Mentira: la destrucción de hospitales, mezquitas, universidades, carreteras, apartamentos, las farmacias y los puertos pesqueros fueron etiquetados' objetivos de Hamas ". La aplicación sistemática de todos-no impugnado por el asalto a cabo helicópteros de combate frente al 1,5 millones de civiles se borra por las cuentas de Hamas tendenciosa "misiles caseros caer cerca de las ciudades israelíes ineficaz.
Una lectura atenta de los más importantes órganos de propaganda de la PMAJO, el Daily Alert (TDA), durante los primeros 5 días del asalto de Israel, revela la propaganda rumbo tomado por la dirección de la pro-Israel, el poder de configuración. TDA trabajado sistemáticamente para lograr los siguientes:
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Exagerar las amenazas a Israel por los misiles palestinos de Gaza, citando a 4 israelíes muertos, mientras que la omisión de toda mención de los 2.500 palestinos muertos y heridos y la destrucción total de su economía y las condiciones de vida (sin agua potable, electricidad, alimentos, combustible para cocinar, la medicina y la calefacción en el invierno)
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Promover asalto militar de Israel como «defensivas», dirigido a eliminar los ataques con cohetes de Hamas, mientras que la omisión de mención de Israel claramente la finalidad de destruir todas las organizaciones civiles, organismos de bienestar social, centros educativos, clínicas médicas y las instituciones de seguridad pública relacionados en modo alguno con los miembros electos de Hamás cualquier gobierno y organismos auxiliares.
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Citar seleccionar declaración de los aliados de Israel y de los clientes (Washington, los medios de los EE.UU., Alemania y Reino Unido) culpar a Hamas por el conflicto, sin mencionar la gran mayoría de los países de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas que condenan la brutalidad de Israel.
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Reproducir israelí calumnias contra cualquier y todos los líderes internacionales de derechos humanos y organizaciones que condenan al estado judío de la política de genocidio contra los nativos palestinos. En este sentido, el TDA es el 'negador del genocidio' en los Estados Unidos y, tal vez fuera de Israel, en el mundo.
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Citar Israel en repetidas ocasiones los dirigentes políticos y militares los créditos de actuar "con moderación", "la protección de los civiles" y "dirigidos contra objetivos militares", incluso en la cara de los informes y las imágenes de destrucción en masa de civiles y la pérdida de vida documentada en la gran mayoría de (non-US) medios de comunicación occidentales.
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Defender cada misión de bombardeo israelí, cada día, cada hora, de cada edificio, cada casa y cada económicas, religiosas y de enseñanza en Gaza como "defensivas" o una "represalia", al tiempo que cita algunos de los más notorios, incondicional , perenne apologistas de la violencia israelí, como si fueran imparciales intelectuales, entre ellos Benny 'Nuke Teherán "Morris, Marty Peretz y Amos Oz
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El diario Alerta de EE.UU. cita escritores, periodistas y editores que elogiar y defender a Israel de "guerra total" sin identificar su larga data de la afiliación y la identificación con las organizaciones sionistas, dando la falsa imagen de un amplio espectro de opinión tras el asalto. Nunca se ha moderado hasta el más crítico judío o gentil de exterminio masivo de Israel de la campaña apareció en todas las cuestiones del diario Alerta.
El principio de las organizaciones judías de América han bombardeado el Congreso de los EE.UU., la influencia, intimidación y la compra de la cobarde llamado "representantes" del pueblo norteamericano, los medios de comunicación y el público con notables radica en la defensa de Israel de la guerra total de exterminio de un pueblo. Su público, descarada, abierta complicidad en el genocidio puede ser considerado crimen contra la humanidad: La promoción deliberada de los actos de un estado diseñados para la destrucción de todo un pueblo.
Y, sin embargo, que estos cómplices, estos "verdugos dispuestos" estado de los asesinatos en masa sin ir dentro de los EE.UU. clase política. Uno de sus principales portavoces en la próxima Administración Obama, Jefe Asesor Presidencial David Axelrod, incluso cita un discurso de campaña de Obama defiende ataques israelíes sobre la población de Gaza.
Israel rechaza todas las llamadas con arrogancia de poner fin a este asesinato en masa, porque Israel sabe que 'su gente' se encuentran todavía en el control de la política de EE.UU. hacia el Medio Oriente y utilizar su poder en el nuevo presidente de la administración para bloquear cualquier condena de este crimen.
Hasta la fecha la totalidad de los derechos humanos y los movimientos anti-guerra han fracasado incluso a mencionar, que a lo largo de desafío, el más poderoso de propaganda y las organizaciones políticas, que influyen en la política de EE.UU. y manipular los medios de comunicación en favor de la campaña de exterminio de Israel. Ellos no juegan ningún papel en la restricción de Israel de las políticas totalitarias, siempre que su principio de EE.UU. de fondos tienen la libertad de mentir, manipular y defender todos y cada uno de la delincuencia.
Hay pocas esperanzas para una política independiente del Congreso de EE.UU. mientras Israel la guerra de exterminio en Gaza puede ser defendido por el Presidente de la Comisión de Asuntos Exteriores (y sionista fanático) el congresista Howard Berman, en los siguientes términos: "Israel tiene derecho, de hecho el deber, de defenderse a sí mismo en respuesta a los cientos de cohetes y morteros disparados desde Gaza la semana pasada. Ningún gobierno en el mundo se sentaba y por permitir que sus ciudadanos sean sometidos a este tipo de bombardeos indiscriminados. La pérdida de vidas inocentes es una terrible tragedia y la culpa de esa tragedia se encuentra con Hamas ". Así pues, el congresista Berman cínicamente omite los 2 años de bloqueo de Israel, el diario "dirigido" asesinatos de palestinos, la «específica» ataques con misiles contra la población civil, la tierra, mar y aire bloqueos y la flagrante 'dirigidas' destrucción de la infraestructura de Gaza. Ningún gobierno, de hecho, elegido democráticamente, un gobierno islamista, mientras que puede estar de pie por su gente de hambre y son asesinados en la presentación. Sin embargo, según el respetado Bermans congresistas del mundo, sólo la vida de los Judios asunto, no el crecimiento de miles de asesinados, mutilados y la desmembración de los ciudadanos de Gaza que no se cuentan como la gente!
¿Qué hay que hacer
Los crímenes de Israel contra la humanidad exigen una respuesta pública: la acción social, que le obligarán a cesar y desistir de su campaña para exterminar a la población de Gaza. Debido a que el estado judío ha asaltado una gran variedad de instituciones sociales de Palestina, que resuenan con los de nuestra propia sociedad, que puede y debe movilizar a condenar y boicotear sus homólogos de Israel:
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Tenemos que instar a toda la comunidad universitaria a denunciar los bombardeos de Israel de la Universidad Islámica de Gaza y la destrucción total de todas sus instalaciones de la ciencia. Organizó un boicot a las universidades israelíes y todos los intercambios académicos, sobre todo científicos, la universidad debe convertirse en política de todo el país. Debe prestarse especial atención a los 450 presidentes de universidades EE.UU., que en el pasado reciente, denunciado por una llamada de académicos británicos y un boicot que permanecer en silencio y complicidad en la cara de Israel de la aniquilación física total de los diez facultades para 20.000 estudiantes universitarios palestinos
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Todos los trabajadores de la salud de América, los médicos, enfermeras, técnicos, deben organizarse y denunciar el bloqueo de Israel contra los médicos 1,5 millones de palestinos hacinados en la Franja de Gaza. Se debe condenar a Israel el bombardeo de Gaza del Children's Hospital, el barrio de las farmacias y los ataques a cualquier crítica del transporte de los heridos las víctimas palestinas de sus ataques aéreos y de misiles. El personal médico debería plantear las cuestiones éticas fundamentales con respecto a la colaboración de EE.UU. y el personal médico y programas con el Estado judío de la "guerra total" de las políticas de exterminio.
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Todos los ciudadanos deben exigir el fin de todos los EE.UU. ayuda militar a Israel, en especial de combate F-16 aviones, helicópteros de ataque Apache, los misiles, 1000 libras "búnker Buster" bombas utilizadas por las fuerzas armadas israelíes en la infraestructura civil de Gaza y el asesinato y la mutilación de más de 2.500 palestinos, los civiles, funcionarios públicos, la policía y la milicia nacional. En la búsqueda de una corte de EE.UU. ayuda militar a Israel, debe hacerse todo lo posible a la meta y denunciar la manera más enérgica, agresiva y exitosa sionista defensores y los grupos de presión que influyen en los miembros elegidos del Congreso de los EE.UU. y la Casa Blanca sobre los presupuestos de ayuda militar extranjera. Sin avances en la eliminación de EE.UU. ayuda militar a Israel de la "depuración étnica" tendrá éxito a menos que el movimiento por la paz y otros horrorizados por el asesinato en masa de Israel se ocupa de la antecámara sionista en la cabeza. Esto incluye el boicot, las réplicas y las manifestaciones contra el AIPAC, la judía Anti-Defamation League y el otro 50 de las principales organizaciones judías de América, que iniciará EE.UU. gubernamentales y segura aprobación de políticas de exterminio de Israel.
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EE.UU. instituciones religiosas deben denunciar con fuerza los crímenes de Israel contra la humanidad, incluida su demolición, de 5 de mezquitas, unir todas las religiones (cristiana, musulmana, budista) y, sobre todo, llegar a la pequeña minoría de los rabinos y atento Judios francamente dispuestos a denunciar la prácticas totalitarias del Estado israelí.
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Puerto de la costa y largo trabajadores, marineros y demás trabajadores del mar y los funcionarios deberían boicotear la gestión de todo el comercio con Israel y denunciar su Marina violento asalto ilegal, en aguas internacionales, de los civiles y los barcos de pesca los buques que transportan ayuda humanitaria a Gaza. N buques que transporten productos israelíes deben ser cargadas o descargadas mientras Israel mantiene su criminal bloqueo militar de las instalaciones portuarias de Gaza.
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Decenas de millones de ciudadanos de EE.UU. sujeto a la unilateral sesgo pro-Israel de los medios electrónicos e impresos, el cortar las presentaciones de cara sionista "op-ed" escritores, 'noticias' informes y las supuestas expertos del Oriente Medio, debe exigir la igualdad de tiempo, cobertura y reportajes para los no-sionista especialistas, analistas y comentaristas. Debemos exigir el fin de eufemismos y falsedades, que convierten en víctimas y agresores en víctimas exterminators.
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Tenemos que librar una batalla de ideas en todas partes (en cada foro público) en contra de los esfuerzos sionistas por la configuración de la alimentación de monopolizar el debate sobre la política israelí de genocidio, para censurar, intimidar y calumnias de los críticos de Israel de apartheid como Presidente de la Asamblea General de la ONU Manuel d ' Escoto tan acertadamente llamadas Gueto muro de Israel en torno a las aldeas palestinas. La efusión de protesta pública de Israel durante la guerra de exterminio es un enorme paso adelante en la lucha contra el monopolio sionista de los medios de comunicación y alentando a las decenas de millones de estadounidenses que reconocen claramente privada y desprecia a los crímenes de Israel contra la humanidad y contra los locales de la élite sionista contra el bandolerismo los que hablar. Presión sobre la masa elegido representante podrá influir algunos a reconsiderar su servilismo a su abyecta sionista 'contribuyentes' y sus' Israel Primero' del Congreso de los colegas.
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Una campaña nacional patriótica debe exigir que el lobby de Israel, especialmente AIPAC, vienen limpios y registrarse como agente extranjero del Estado de Israel. Esto podría socavar el Lobby del llamamiento a América Judios, reducir su influencia sobre el Congreso y la apertura de procesos judiciales y las investigaciones sobre el abuso de exenciones de impuestos, el blanqueo de dinero y llevar a las revelaciones sobre su traidor adquisición de documentos confidenciales EE.UU. Estado de una potencia extranjera . Existe una poderosa base política y jurídica de esa negación del vestíbulo de la "exención de impuestos y de la legalidad, además de la transparencia y la abrumadora evidencia de que todas las organizaciones sionistas actúan como correas de transmisión de las políticas estatales de Israel: A principios de los años 1950's hasta 1963, el precursor de AIPAC estaba obligado a registrarse como agente extranjero del Estado de Israel. Más recientemente, un israelí fiscal presentó pruebas de que la Agencia Judía de Israel-y sus homólogos de EE.UU. fueron el lavado miles de millones de dólares en especial para la financiación de los asentamientos de colonos israelíes en territorio palestino ocupado, condenado como ilegal según el derecho internacional. Audiencias en el Congreso, la legislación se adapte y se publicó la investigación pondría de manifiesto el papel del lobby como una quinta columna para el Estado de Israel en contra de los intereses del pueblo de los Estados Unidos.
Hasta que no neutralizar el poder invasor sionista de la configuración de la alimentación en todas sus manifestaciones en público y la vida cívica y su profunda penetración de América oficinas legislativas y ejecutivas, que caerá por debajo de Israel de impedir la recepción de armas, financiación y apoyo político a sostener sus guerras de exterminio étnico.
Cuando dijo que la gran mayoría de los pueblos del mundo están enfermos y encolerizado por parte de Israel del asesinato en masa de los ciudadanos de Gaza, podemos imaginar fácilmente la contemptuous el despido por parte de Israel de los líderes principales, parafraseando a Joseph Stalin: ¿Cuántas bombas, misiles, aviones de combate y de gran alcance hacer que los grupos de presión (los indignados habitantes del mundo) tienen?
James Petras es autor de Sionismo, Militarismo y el declive de EE.UU. de energía, la claridad de prensa de 2008.
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