AMERICA UNDER - ZIONIST SIEGE.
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MIGHTY AMERICA IS UNDER ZIONIST MIGHT.
STATISTICS AMERICANS ARE UNAWARE OF as of July 22, 2004
The U.S. gives$15,139,178 per day to the Israeli government and military and
$568,744 per day to Palestinian NGO's.
Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions (over 85 since Israel's
inception) and
the Palestinians have been targeted by none
972 Israelis and 3,097 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000.
6,499 Israelis and26,819 Palestinians have been injured since September 29,
2000.
The Israeli unemployment rate is10.4%, while the
Palestinian unemployment is estimated at 37-67%.
111 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and
590 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000.
1 Israeli home has been destroyed by
Palestinians and 2,202 Palestinian homes have been completely destroyed (14,436
partially destroyed) since September 29, 2000.
60+ new Jewish-only settlements have been built on confiscated Palestinian land
between March 2001 and July 11, 2003.
There have been 0 cases of Palestinians confiscating Israeli land and building
settlements.
Special thanks to IF AMERICANS KNEW for Compiling these Stats and offsite
resources.
WHERE AMERICAN LIVES DO NOT COUNT
By Laura Dawn Lewis
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LOS ANGELES, March 15, 2006: The third anniversary of American peace activist
Rachel Corrie's murder by a Caterpillar Bulldozer driver under the direction of
the Israeli Occupation Forces (IDF) arrives. Nearly three years to the day, our
US government has failed to intervene or even censure Israel on behalf of her
and her family. Our government has failed to investigate, follow-up or actively
pursue justice for Corrie and other American citizens killed by Israeli military
forces. Unfortunately, this lack of regard constitutes the norm, not the
exception. If this sounds strange, that a nation would abandon its own for the
vanity of another nation, stranger still is the truth. When it comes to Israel,
American lives do not count.
Clockwise from bottom:
American Citizens Brian Avery (24), wounded. Suraida Saleh (21) murdered. Dr.
Kalhid Salah, (54) and his son (not shown), murdered. Leon Klinghoffer, (69)
murdered. Rachel Corrie, (23) murdered, 34 crewmen of the USS Liberty, murdered.
What has the US Government done about these murdered and woun ded Americans?
With one exception, nothing.
Murdered and wounded Americans by Israeli forces come from most major faiths,
including Judaism. This places all of our citizens traveling to Israel at grave
risk, especially our Jewish citizens who are more likely to travel to Israel
than any other group. Government inaction and apathy toward the targeting of
Americans endangers us all.
Whether the Roadmap to Peace, sanctioning Saddam for the same crimes Sharon also
visited upon the Occupied Territories or fining Hamas for its 'terrorist' side
when Israel's first leaders engaged in the same, the United States government
demonstrates predictable consistency when dealing with issues or policies
pertaining to Israel. Double standards permeate, including the same transparent
hypocrisy applied to our murdered citizens. American lives&n bsp;do count if
Palestinians kill Americans in Israel or the territories it occupies. American
lives do not count if the murderer is Israeli.
The following six events illustrate this double standard:
How the US Government treats the murder of Americans when
Palestinian or Arab people are responsible:
A) Three American contractors were killed and another wounded on October 15,
2003 when a roadside bomb tore through a van that was part of a diplomatic
convoy traveling through the Gaza Strip. US Officials were on the ground
investigating within 24 hours and several members of congress expressed outrage.
B) July 31, 2002 four Americans were killed when a remote-controlled bomb
detonated in the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria at Hebrew University. The US Government
issued an immediate statement and sent a team to investigate. The bombing was
front page news.
C) August 9, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel. A suicide bombing at Sbarro's in Jerusalem
killed American Shoshana Greenbaum and several Israelis. The US Government
issued immediate outrage, teams were sent to investigate and this bombing stayed
top of mind in the media nearly a week.
The list goes on.
How the US Government treats the murder of Americans when
Israelis are responsible:
Contrast the above well publicized events and responses with the following
crimes against Americans from an overlapping period, 2002 - 2004. You'll find
two glaring differences.
1) Who is committing the crime.
Above it is Palestinians attacking Israeli targets. Below Israeli soldiers
attacking American citizens.
2) Intimate knowledge of who is attacked.
Above, the American victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Americans
were not specifically targeted.
Below, these are intimate attacks, meaning the soldier's knew they were
attacking and killing Americans, not Palestinian militia or terrorists.
APRIL 5, 2003: Israeli occupation forces open fire on a group of identified and
unarmed peace activists wearing florescent vests, unarmed ha nds in full view
standing beside the road and allowing them to pass. After passing, the IDF
soldiers stopped, turned around and opened fire with machine guns on the
international assembly, dispensing thirty rounds. American citizen and
twenty-four year old peace activist Brian Avery was shot in the face and left
for dead. Attempted contacts by Avery, his family and others to their
congressional representatives elicited personal sympathy but publicly and
politically each refused to address the issue. Little mention found its way into
the US mainstream media.
MARCH 15, 2003: Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old senior at the Evergreen State
University in Washington State was murdered, crushed to death trying to save the
proper ty of a man, Rafahinian, Dr. Samir Nasrallah. The tactic of razing
Palestinian homes in Israel and the Occupied territories is a form of collective
punishment, a war crime according to International Law. Wearing a florescent
vest and in full view of the D-9 driver as he ran his bulldozer over her body
twice, crushing her to death. Several meters away, tanks and IDF soldiers
watched. No one intervened.
SUMMARY OF
AMERICAN CITIZENS KILLED OR WOUNDED BY ISRAEL
Still Awaiting Justice
BRIAN AVERY
(Injured April 5, 2003): Israeli occupation forces open fire on a group of
identified and unarmed peace activists wearing florescent vests, unarmed hands
in full view standing beside the road and allowing them to pass. After passing,
the IDF soldiers stopped, turned around and opened fire with machine guns on the
international assembly, dispensing thirty rounds. Avery, shot in the face,
survived.
LEON KLINGHOFFER (October 7, 1985)- killed on the
Achille Lauro, a cruise ship hijacked by 'Palestinians'. Abu Abbas, the Mossad
asset who shot Klinghoffer was apprehended in 2003 by US forces in Iraq.
Interestingly inGaza during 1996 Abbas, who was held up as a great 'terrorist'
catch offered an apology to the family of Klinghoffer and was not apprehended at
that time.
RACHEL CORRIE
(March 15, 2003) killed by a bulldozer in Gaza. Rachel Corrie was murdered
trying to save the property of a man, Rafahinian, Dr. Samir Nasrallah. The
tactic of razing Palestinian homes in Israel and the Occupied territories is a
form of collective punishment, a war crime according to International Law.
Rachel was attempting to prevent this from happening when the D-9 driver ran
over her twice, crushing her 23 year old body beneath it.
SURAIDA SALEH,
(April 3, 2003) at 21 years old this Washington DC native and mother was shot
dead by the IDF soldiers disguised as Arabs while sitting, stopped in her car
holding her 9 month old baby in her lap with her husband Morad at her side.
Morad, a journalist with the Palestinian Broadcasting Company was hit with five
bullets: two in his head, two in his shoulder, and one in his hand. The
Israelis, assuming that all of the occupants were dead, left the scene. Morad
regained consciousness to find his wife dead, slumped over their child.
Miraculously, little Muhsin was unharmed. To date, US State Department has done
nothing.
DR. KHALED SALAH(54) and his son,MOHAMMED SALAH(16)
were murdered July 6, 2004, in their home at 3 AM in front of the mother and two
siblings in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces. The Salahs identified
themselves as American citizens before being shot. Dr. Salah established the
Department of Electrical Engineering at An-Najah University in Nablus. His
eldest son was attending university in Boston at the time his father and brother
were shot. The US State Department has done nothing.
THE SAILORS AND MARINES OF THE USS LIBERTY 34 sailors and marines killed and 171
injured of the USS Liberty (June 8, 1967) in an unprovoked attack on the lightly
armed intelligence ship, sailing in international waters off the coast of Egypt.
For nearly 39 years the survivors and families have attempted to seek justice
and an official Naval inquiry into the attack. Attempts to tell their story
through films and books incurred condemnation from US Government personnel,
threats by groups loyal to Israel, slander and libel against the crew, calling
them anti-Semitic for seeking justice. To date the US Government refuses to
investigate this attack, an act of war defined by international law. Through
several administrations congressmen, senators and presidents refuse to support
the USS Liberty crew, its families an d the survivors publicly, preferring
instead to safeguard Israel's reputation. In June 2005, like the Corrie family,
the survivors filed an official war crimes report with the Secretary of Defense.
To date, the US State Department, US Congress, US Senate and the Bush
Administration have done nothing.
Rachel is not the first woman killed under the blade of an American made and
supplied Caterpillar bulldozer. Twelve days prior on March 3, 2003 another
Caterpillar bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier killed a nine-month pregnant
Palestinian woman, Nuha Sweidan (33). Mrs. Sweidan bled to death under the
rubble as she cradled her 18-month-old daughter. Inside of her womb, her soon to
be born child was also squashed before it had its first breath of life.
Question: What threat could an unarmed pregnant woman in
her ninth month possibly pose? She can barely move!
Rachel's death was ridiculed in the Wall Street Journal's online edition and by
several news commentators and comedians.
Following, a U.S. congressional resolution demanding an independent inquiry into
Rachel's death was buried in committee for months before it expired at the end
of the 108th Congress, leaving the Israeli military's investigation - which
cleared itself of any wrongdoing - as the only official investigation. In March
2005 the Corrie family took matters into their own hands and filed a lawsuit
against the State of Israel and Caterpillar. The US government remains silent.
JULY 6, 2004: Dr. Khaled Salah (54) and his son, Mohammed Salah (16) were
murdered in their home at 3 AM in front of the Mrs. Salah and two of their
children in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces. Soldiers came to the
door, woke the family up. Dr. Salah identified himself and his family as
American citizens before being shot. Despite his American citizenship, he was
murdered anyway. Dr. Salah was in Nablus to establish the Department of
Electrical Engineering at An-Najah University. At the time, his eldest son was
attending university in Boston.
Dr. Salah and his son were killed after the cessation of hostilities between the
Israeli military and the local armed resistance. Family and medical volunteers
on the scene that night report Mohammed Salah died because Israeli military
officials refused to allow medical personnel access to the boy, who lay bleeding
on the floor of the family home. Despite a call placed to the US consulate the
night of the attack, neither Consul General David Pearce nor any other US
diplomatic officials investigated the Israeli military's targeting of a family
with US resident and citizenship status. To date, the US State Department has
done nothing.
QUESTION: If the US Consulate doesn't help citizens that have been shot, (how
much more trouble can a person get in than life and death?) why do we have
consulates?
Meanwhile: The Jerusalem Post reported in April 2005 the Israeli Navy awarded
commendations to members of a military unit for their `bravery' in Nablus
including the July 2004 murder of Dr. Salah and his 16-year old son Mohammed.
QUESTION: How much bravery does it take to kill an unarmed
American man in the middle of the night and stand by while his son bleeds to
death in front of you?
IS THIS A TREND?
Does the United States give Israel a blank check to murder Americans? To date I
have been unable to find an instance where the nation of Israel, its military or
Israeli vigilantes responsible for murdering or maiming Americans have been held
accountable. Consider the consequences.
Every American killed or harmed by Israel, not defended by the United States
increases the chances that other Americans visiting Israel on business, pleasure
or humanitarian causes will be murdered.
How many more American citizen ns must die before we, the American people take
action? Based upon the e-mails I receive from Jewish readers, more and more are
questioning what is happening in Israel. This has prompted many to bypass the
approved tourist routes designed for indoctrination and careful viewing of the
approved and choreographed 'realities on the ground' in favor of seeing for
themselves what is really going on. By doing so, they place themselves at the
mercy of the IDF. This threat of harm or death, actionable and never prosecuted,
serves Israel's interests as a form of censorship through fear. But it doesn't
serve the best interests of the United States which gives 40% of our entire
international aid budget to Israel every year. Shouldn't we see what our money
is being spent on and how our machines including bulldozers are used? Our
government should be defending us, not protecting Israel's rice paper reputation
from rain.
Without a penalty for killing Americans, what is to stop an Israeli soldier from
taking out his bad day on any American in his path? Being an American is no
protection in Israel. Dr. Salah's murder in July 2004 by Israeli Occupation
Forces illuminates how little American citizenship means in Israel. Knowing he
and his family to be an American citizen with US residence, IDF soldiers did not
hesitate to shoot him and his son. And even by off chance these murders were in
error, the fact the IDF soldiers prevented and withheld from an American child
medical help that may well have saved his life prove intent. They did not care
that he and his family are/were American citizens. They did not care because the
American Government provides no penalty, no consequence to Israel for killing
our citizens. Adding insult to injury, the Israeli government awarded these
soldiers commendations! Still, the US Government remained silent.
Had the US Government required Israel arrest and try the men responsible for the
murders of American citizens Rachel Corrie and twenty-one year old mother
Suraida Saleh in 2003, Dr. Salah and his son Mohammed most likely would not have
been murdered. The cost to Israel and the soldiers pulling the trigger and
preventing medical care would have been too high. These young women's deaths, a
college student and a young American mother shot holding her nine-month old baby
in her arms, lead to the conclusion, in Israel: killing Americans brings less
retribution than mistreating a dog. Why, given the US government's actions,
think otherwise?
HOW MANY HAVE WE SACRIFICED?
How many Americans have died at the hands of Israelis? My searched turned up 39
with 173 wounded. How many of these thirty-nine murdered and 173 injured have
received justice from the US Government?
One, sort of.
Only in one case have the murderers been ar rested or reparations made, though
not by the responsible party. The blame, condemnation and reparations all came
from those employed to carry out the plan, not the employer. The party
ultimately responsible for the death, in this case, Israeli intelligence, (Mossad)
has not been held responsible for the deliberate murder of an American citizen.
Worse, our citizen died for a PR stunt and our government continues to
perpetuate that stunt rather than the truth.
THE SEMI-EXCEPTION
The case is of sixty-nine year old American citizen Leon Klinghoffer who was
murdered aboard the Achille Lauro, October 7, 1985.
His family did receive a pseudo justice, reparations and scattered arrests
throughout the years from those blamed. The catch here is 'those blamed'. Those
ultimately responsible, the people who ordered, orchestrated and funded the
hijacking, have not been held accountable by the US government for the murder of
our citizen.
Why is Klinghoffer's situation different? Some will say because he's Jewish.
It's possible but doubtful. The instructions from Mossad to the hijackers stated
"Make it bad, to show the world what lay in store for other unsuspecting
citizens if Palestinian demands were not met." Handicap, white and elderly,
Klinghoffer made the perfect victim, plus he offer little resistance. Whether
they knew his faith is inconclusive.
More likely, based upon the actions of the US in dealing with those killed by
Palestinians, the reason the Klinghoffer family received attention is that the
hijackers were Arab. To this day, politicians, (Delay in 2004 for example) still
misrepresent the Achille Lauro as a PLO rather than Mossad operation and cite it
as an example of terrorism run rampant(1).
The designated mastermind, Abbas was arrested in Iraq in 2003 and held up as an
example of success in our "War on Terror". Other members were periodically
arrested and some mysteriously escaped during the past twenty years. There is an
inconsistency of course. Abbas gave an interview in Gaza covered by CNN in 1996
where he apologized to the Klinghoffer family. Plus, his 'terrorist' career
appears to be in retirement since 1985. The PLO also made reparations to the
Klinghoffer family, even though it had been public knowledge nearly four years
that the hijacking was a Mossad operation. That inconsistency goes against what
we're told is the modus operandi for terrorists...always planning their next
strike leading many to believe that Abbas was arrested more to show a positive
advancement in the war on terror than a dispensing of justice for Mr.
Klinghoffer's death. The fact is, through much of the 1990's the American and
Israeli governments knew his location and chose not to pick him up.
Questions
Contrast this with Israel's actions in relation to American's killed by
Israelis. With the exception of a small payment to the US
Government over the USS Liberty attack, none of the families whose kin were
murdered by Israel have received compensation or apology bringing to mind the
following questions.
1) Why does the American Government choose to protect a foreign nation rather
than protect its citizens?
2) What kind of nation preaches equality, democracy, liberty and a respect for
personal freedom with predictable regularity and then turns and abandon its own?
3) What type of people do we have running our government and our press that
allow a young American mother, barely an adult, to be murdered at point blank
range holding her baby in her arms and not do anything about it or report it?
Democracy Now is the ONLY broadcast media to report Suraida's murder, still.
4) And with regard to the USS Liberty, what kind of leaders spout rhetoric about
"Supporting our Troops" then turn around and treat those whom have given the
ultimate sacrifice, their lives in service to their country, like criminals
simply because their ship was attacked by the one nation on this planet with
carte blanc powers to murder Americans and never answer for it?
Am I the only person in the United States who is outraged by these murders and
wants our leaders to answer these questions and Israel held accountable for
killing our people? Am I the only person who considers it the moral obligation
of our leaders to protect our citizens when wronged? Am I the only person who
doesn't give a damn what their religions are...who considers th em all
Americans?
Being an American did not stop the Israeli military and intelligence from
targeting and killing Rachel Corrie, Leon Klinghoffer, Dr. and Mohammed Salah,
the young mother Suraida Saleh holding her infant as they shot her, or the
thirty-four men on the USS Liberty. It did not stop the Israeli military from
shooting Brian Avery, disfiguring him permanently. American citizenship carries
no value, no consequence in Israel. As an American of any faith, this fact
should terrify you! It should infuriate you. Why doesn't it?
How our government treats the families of our citizens slain should alarm every
single American, pro-Israel or not. My God, America, where is the support for
our citizens? This is not about Israel. Israel is a foreign nation. They'll do
what they can get away with. Had Israel's citizens been slaughtered in our
nation, the Israeli government would demand action. Had any nation's citizens
been murdered in our country as our citizens have been executed in Israeli
controlled territories by Israelis, the outrage would be heard around the world.
One would expect the same of the US government. Why is our government silent,
not even a whimper?
This is about how the US Government is failing to represent and failing to
protect its own citizens by promoting the agenda of a special interest, in this
case a foreign nation. Americans should not have to go to court to get justice
when we are murdered by a specific nation or any nation. Why is our government
not defending us? Why?
Ulterior Motives for Government Inaction?
For what logical reason would members of the US government abandon its own,
allow its citizens to die, choose not to protest or hold a foreign nation
responsible for their murders?
Next month Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, former executives of t he American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee, (AIPAC, also known as the Israeli Lobby) go on
trial accused of crimes defined under acts of espionage against the United
States. This month, several members of congress, the senate and other government
agencies including John Boehner, John Edwards, John Bolton, Evan Bayh, Susan
Collins, Dick Cheney, Roy Blunt and Steny Hoyer attended the AIPAC convention,
speaking, celebrating and proclaiming their support for this lobby representing
the interests of a foreign nation, a nation suspected of espionage and a nation
that has killed nearly forty American citizens and never answered for it. Logic
says our officials should be avoiding this lobby suspected of betraying American
interests. Many are not. Instead, many are going out of their way to support it,
demonstrating a severe lack of judgment while raising the questions compounded
by years of suspicious actions, bills and behaviors:
Did our citizens die because of dual loyalties?
Whose interests are our elected representatives representing?
Why else would our representatives protect Israel, represent its interests and
sacrifice, humiliate and chastise our murdered citizens and their families? Not
once, but multiple times over six separate occasions spanning thirty-nine years,
our own government's consistency in selling out American citizens, American
interests and our foundational principles for Israeli interests blinds. Dual
loyalties and acting as agents for foreign agendas, what other reason makes
sense? Standing up for our citizens murdered by Israel brings repercussions from
one group: Israeli loyalists. Problem is, this is not Israel. This is the United
States. Those loyal to and exclusively representing the American people would
not care about condemnation from Israeli loyalists. Our citizens were murdered.
Those loyal exclusively to t he US Constitution and representing American
citizens would fight, protest and assure our citizens and their families
received justice. They would represent the American people and only the American
people. Instead, the silence of our elected officials speaks volumes.
Did our citizens die because of dual loyalties?
Whose interests are our elected representatives representing?
These questions must be asked. Our nation deserves answers.
Taking a Stand
Using reciprocity shrouded as favors and donations, our tax dollars are funneled
to Israel (or any special interest) and a pittance returned to individual
campaign coffers for blind eyes, muted mouths and closed ears, the interest paid
in the blood of our own. Much like a credit card that charges eighteen percent
while returning two, necessity to our detriment via a negative balance is
demonstrated. We lose more than we gain. Thus the loyalty of many in our
government is effectively leased. Leased but not bought. Standing up for our
slain citizens amends this contract, putting those not supporting Americans on
notice. These murders and the apathy of our representatives illustrate symptoms
of a greater problem, the influence of special interests, lobbies, corporations
and others imposed on the American people, defying our best interests as a
nation and often against our will.
As a nation we owe our thirty-nine dead and 173 wounded citizens justice. The
best way to honor our slain is for us, the voters, to insist not one politician
with blurred, disjointed definitions of constituencies, loyalties or
responsibilities is allowed to serve our nation ever again.
We have the power to end this. As a nation we have the power to provide the
families of the slain with justice and with closure. It is called voting. Let us
use it.
In Memory of the American Citizens
Killed by Israel
Still Awaiting Action from the US Government
and representation of their interests by the men and women elected to serve
them.
May the survivors and families live to see the day when the United States
government places the best interests of itself and its citizens first, before
those of any foreign nation, corporation or special interest, thus delivering
the justice all American citizens deserve.