Why We Are Hated. Israel has launched an extraordinarily excessive and vicious attack upon the entirety of the Palestinian people of Gaza because one Israeli soldier has been taken captive.

Israeli warplanes bombarded two main vital bridges and the main power station in the impoverished Gaza Strip before pushing tanks and troops deep into the coastal strip early on Wednesday, June 28.

"Israel is continuing with its state terrorism against the Palestinian people," former minister and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told Al-Jazeera news channel.

"We had an agreement, sponsored by the European Union, that energy and power stations should be left out of the conflict," he averred.

"We are seeing a humanitarian crisis unfold[ ] before our eyes."

Gaza City was plunged into darkness after Israeli aircraft hit the main power station, sending flames shooting into the sky and cutting off electricity to much of the coastal territory, where 1.4 million Palestinians live. [Electricity is needed to pump water — in a desert area — to housing, not just to run TVs and other electrical devices for business and residences.]

The attack followed air strikes that destroyed two main bridges and hit a road in the central Gaza Strip, as combat helicopters flew overhead and tanks and armored vehicles rolled into the strip.

Israeli public television said the air operation could be the prelude to a major ground offensive in Gaza[.]

To read the details is to be stunned by the insanity of the Israeli Government, and the wicked co-conspiracy of the United States Government — and media; after all, how much graphic, up-close detail have you seen on TV or in the press about this astounding over-reaction? — in the endless crimes against humanity committed by Israel with the active blessing and rich funding of American taxpayers
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Is it really any wonder that we are hated by billions of people around this planet, and why over a billion people cheered when they saw news footage of the World Trade Center towers pancaking to the ground?
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2,700 Americans died for Israel on 9/11. Over 2,500 more have died in Iraq for Israel since then. More die almost every day. For Israel.
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But the stupid children we send to die for "us" have no idea that they are really dying for Israel, a country that is not theirs and to which they neither owe nor feel the slightest allegiance. They die so Israel can kill, and every person Israel kills makes more enemies for the United States, more intent on killing more Americans, because our Government backs to the hilt every atrocity committed by Israel, and continues to ship boatloads of money to empower Israel to defy the world, defy morality, and kill with reckless abandon.
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Israelis are the stupidest and most evil people on Earth. They think they're smart, and pretend that they know how to deal with terrorism, but in fact, before the U.S. created chaos in Iraq, Israel had more terrorism than any other country on Earth, because Israel's approach to terrorism has always been incredibly stupid and ineffectual. American political leaders even praise Israel for the policies that have produced mass terrorism, and said we could learn from Israel! Sure we can: we can learn how to die and have bombs blow up on buses and in cafes and have our homes attacked by rockets and bands of armed gunmen. And now we have learned from Israel how to have the entire planet hate us.
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Contrast the behavior of the actual United States with what the Moslem world thinks of as the creature of the United States, Israel.
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On June 17th, two U.S. soldiers disappeared in Iraq, taken captive by insurgents.

8,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops scoured the region * * * One U.S. soldier was killed and 12 wounded during the three-day search across a vast area south of Baghdad, while two insurgents were killed and 78 detained, the military said.

We didn't bomb power plants, turning out the lites, TVs, radios, computers, air-conditioners, and pumps for water — in a desert — and sewage-treatment plants for 1.4 million people, destroy bridges, or otherwise inflict collective punishments upon the people of Iraq. To put this in perspective, the island of Manhattan has little more than 1.5 million people. Imagine Israel bombing Con Edison plants and knocking out power to 4/5 of Manhattan, and nobody paying attention. Imagine your own area being struck by bombers that knock out your power and bridges but nobody outside your area is indignant. The U.S. Government merely asks the country that bombed you to 'exercise restraint'. Would that mollify you? Or would you be livid and intent on killing whoever did this to you?
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What ever happened to our capacity to identify with the downtrodden? Was rooting for the underdog always just bullsh*t? Or did we once actually do that? We sure don't today. Well, government and media sure don't.
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Rather, we smile upon — or at least winkingly connive in — such grotesque overreaction by Israel. Oh, Condoleezza Rice may "call[ ] for efforts to 'calm the situation, not to let the situation escalate, and give diplomacy a chance to work and try to budget this release [whatever the heck that's supposed to mean!]'", but she doesn't mean a word of it, and the whole world knows she is a vicious, evil liar, a feckless pawn of Israel, as is George Bush, as is Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld — the whole damned U.S. Government, Republican and Democrat alike.
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The U.S. holds the power of life and death over Israel. Any time we want, we can end the existence of Israel, with a "shock and awe" campaign to destroy Israel's military entirely, including its nuclear facilities. We know where they are. We know how to get to them. We could warn Israel that our patience is at an end, and if Israel does not stop its crimes against humanity, and does not stop getting Americans killed (in being blamed for the crimes of Israel), we will destroy the Israeli state by overwhelming military force unlike anything Israel has ever seen, then merge Israel into a United Palestine. We don't. Rather, the U.S. Government utters timid, little-girl protestations — and then ships more billions of U.S. taxpayer money to Israel to buy more ammunition and more bombs with which to kill more Palestinians and destroy more infrastructure in an area that Israel and the U.S. have willfully and with malice aforethought co-conspired to make grotesquely poor. The result? More people all over this planet want more Americans dead.
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Who has done these horrendous, evil things? The people on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center? The soldiers dying in Iraq to defend Israel, but who thought they were there to defend the United States?
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No. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, and a host of other traitors in high places in the U.S. Government before 9/11 and before the Iraq war. Will they ever be punished? Or will it just be the Little Guy who dies for the crimes of the Big?
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There is a clamor, at present by about 1/3 of the public (I heard on the news yesterday) to impeach George Bush. The Bushies think they can not just ride it out but also triumph at the polls this November by making indignant the redneck morons who wrap themselves in the American flag — when they're not wrapping themselves in the Confederate Battle Flag.
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But do those "good ol' boys" know that they are being asked to die for Israel? Do they understand that Christians are being slaughtered for Jews who revile Jesus and hold him a blasphemer who got what he deserved? Do they realize that more Americans than Israelis have died for Israel in the past five years, and that more Americans than Israelis will continue to die for Israel for the next five years, or ten, or a hundred, as long as the U.S. co-conspires in the crimes of Israel?
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I don't think so. If they were capable of thought, they'd see that. But they're morons. Which is why they vote Republican to begin with. They do, after all, vote to keep themselves poor by keeping in power the Party of the Rich who keep the Little Guy deep in debt at 26.9% interest and more. They'll vote for anything. All you've got to do is pretend it's the patriotic (or heterosexual) thing to do, to vote Republican, and they'll do it. Little do they know that the country the Republican Right owes its loyalty to is not the "good old U.S. of A." but Israel.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,532.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 9:32 AM