Political Sin and Religious Redemption (Part 1 of 2). President Bush is committing a horrendous crime against humanity that assures that the people of the United States will not just continue to be targeted for death but will be more intensely despised in large areas of this planet for the foreseeable future.
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In this space July 10th, I said of U.S. complicity in Israel's crimes:

[Americans indignantly proclaim] "We were attacked on September 11th", implying we did nothing to incite such an attack. No, we have been angels to Islam. We didn't send $100 billion to prop up the State of Israel and buy ammunition for the guns and cannons, and fuel for the bulldozers, that have killed untold numbers of Arabs, inside and outside Palestine, and destroyed entire Arab neighborhoods. * * * We disown any responsibility, then send Israel more money to replenish the ammunition expended on killing [innocents].

Now, Dubya wants to rush bombs to Israel to replenish the stores depleted by Israel's latest war against its neighbors.

The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.

The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.

Altho the pretense is that these are "arms sales", the reality is that all Israeli 'defense' purchases from the United States are paid for by U.S. aid. That is, you are paying for those bombs. You are paying for that rush delivery. And you will be held to account if you do nothing to stop it. (That passage was directed to Americans. The following imperative applies to everyone, wheresoever situate on this violent and deformed planet.)
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You've got to speak out. "Silence implies assent" in law and morality. As one alternate-religion website points out:

Speak out — do not remain silent. Silence implies assent, and makes it harder for others to speak in turn. If we do not fight for what is right, who will? Stand up and be noticed. Help turn the tide.

I had already emailed the White House on Israel's astonishingly disproportionate reaction to a trivial incident, but this latest decision by the Bushites compelled me to send a second message to the President (president@whitehouse.gov or comments@whitehouse.gov (they go to the same mailbox) with copy to vice.president@whitehouse.gov) today:

HOW on Earth can you be so crazy as to rush bombs to Israel and make uncontradictably clear to all the world that your Government is fully complicit in Israel's crimes? Don't you understand that every U.S. soldier in the Moslem world will now be even more a target for death? Don't you understand that hundreds of millions of people in the Moslem world who were willing to separate the U.S. from Israel will now be forced to see the two as one? Don't you understand that rushing bombs to Israel is equivalent to proclaiming that the United States IS Israel and all Americans share the guilt for Israel's crimes, so can properly be targeted for death?
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Your stupidity is beyond belief. It would seem that Americans will have to destroy the Republican Party in order to save themselves from the permanent war you have started, that kills Americans every day — for Israel.

I also wrote, by feedback form at his website, to one of my U.S. Senators, Robert Menendez. I'm not persuaded there is any point to writing to the other, Frank Lautenberg, because he is a Jew and has always seemed very cozy with Israel.

You disgrace the people of New Jersey by siding with Israel in its insane collective punishment of the entire Lebanese nation for the acts of a few guerrillas. Have you forgotten the many New Jerseyans who died on 9/11? On that day, al-Qaeda inflicted collective punishment upon Americans for the actions of the U.S. Government in siding with Israel in all its crimes. How can we be indignant about 9/11 if we show no indignation about Israel's monstrous over-reaction against Lebanon? How many more 9/11's must we suffer before we accept that Arabs are right to hate us because people in power (like you) side with Israel and make us all targets of retribution?
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You are in a very close race for Senate this November. I would ordinarily vote for the Democrat. But if you behave exactly the same as a Republican, I will vote for your opponent. I'd rather have a real Republican than an imitation Democrat.
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Democrats are concerned with justice. They never side with injustice. They never say that killing hundreds of Arabs and destroying billions of dollars of private property and infrastructure thru an attack upon a sovereign nation in retaliation for the kidnapping — not even killing — of a mere two Israelis by entirely different people is morally defensible. Would you smile upon a full-scale U.S. attack upon ordinary Mexicans for the tacit connivance of their government in illegal immigration? How about a full-scale attack upon the people of your ancestral country, Cuba, for the acts of their government? Would you defend the U.S. killing hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of Hispanics in our neighbors, as you smile upon Israel killing hundreds and hundreds in Lebanon, Israel's neighbor?
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If you have no moral sense, you are unfit to hold public office. Speak out against Israel's grotesque over-reaction, or know that you have put New Jerseyans in peril. And don't expect to triumph in November by pandering to Zionists. The Jewish vote isn't that big, and Republicans can claim part of it.
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Christians should follow Christian moral law and denounce violations by anyone, "friend" or foe without distinction. Decent people do not excuse crimes by their friends, not in the ghettos of New Jersey, not in the Middle East.

I really hate the thought of voting for a Republican, ever, even a "moderate" Republican like Tom Kean (son of the former NJ governor who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission). Tom Kean's website says nothing at all about the Middle East, so we cannot know Kean's stance. His refusing to denounce Israel's invasion suggests he approves of it. ("Silence implies assent", remember?) But the worse offender is the man who should know better but does evil anyway. Republicans just don't know right from wrong.
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It is because both major parties are mortally immoral that I have tried to form a Third Party, the Expansionist Party of the United States, that never willfully does wrong. Alas, people think support for a Third Party is pointless. So we are endlessly required to choose the lesser of evils, being never able to vote for good.
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There is an irony in the behavior of Israel in its latest attack upon Islam, but I doubt Israelis are smart enuf to see it.
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Israel is dropping leaflets and otherwise telling Lebanese civilians to flee the areas it intends to continue to attack, as tho that relieves them of all responsibility for invading and devastating a sovereign state alongside it. But what about the notorious 'voluntary removal' of Palestinians from what became Israel when war broke out at the establishment of the State of Israel? Israel has endlessly proclaimed that there is no "right of return" for Palestinians who left Israel then, to avoid being killed in the hostilities, because they "voluntarily" abandoned their property and gave up any right to live where their families had lived for centuries. So, Israeli 'reasoning' goes, Jews could properly just move in, seize "abandoned" Arab property without compensation (even tho Jews are still suing for restoration of property taken by Germans 60 years ago!), and erect a legal, military, and physical barrier to stop Arab owners from returning to their homes after hostilities ended. Israel has endlessly told displaced Palestinians that their only redress is to seek compensation from the Arab governments that told them to evacuate.
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Apply the same reasoning to today. Israel tells Arabs to flee Lebanon. Does that then give Israel the right simply to march in and take over "abandoned" Lebanese territory too, and deny Lebanese the right to return to their homes? Are Lebanese who flee now to have as their only recourse to petition Israel to pay for the property it has devastated and/or seized? Will any international tribunal make Israel pay?
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Do property rights end when war begins? I don't think that's the way international law works.
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But of course, laws were made for other people, not for Jews. Jews are God's "Chosen People", so non-Jews have no right even to attempt to lay down the law for Jews. Jews are a law unto themselves, and everyone had better bow down to the Jews or they will find themselves bombed into submission or nonexistence. American taxpayers will pay for those bombs, and ship them by rush delivery to make sure Israel never runs out of bombs with which to kill Gentiles. Never mind that almost all Americans are Gentiles, for whom Israel has not one iota more respect than it has for Arabs. If Americans stopped supporting Israel, we too would become enemies of Israel, to be killed if we get in Zionists' way. Note that Israel knew there were 25,000 Americans in Lebanon, but that did not for one second delay Israel's attacks.
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Why is there so little active moral conscience in this country when it comes to outrages by Israel against Arabs? It's as tho we have made an automatic exception to all the rules when it comes to Arabs in particular and Moslems in general. Could it be because Jews control the media?
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Oh, Jews will publicly deny that they control the media, even tho everybody knows it's true. Jewish control has been slitely diluted in recent years, but remains strong. Among themselves, Jews brag about their dominance of media. Works like the formerly published Jewish Almanac contain long lists of "our people" in positions of power in the movie industry, TV, newspaper publishing, magazines, Internet publishing — everywhere. They write books like An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Amazon.com's brief review of that book begins thus:

That subtitle may inspire in some readers waves of ethnic pride, and in others waves of ethnic revulsion, but the point of this book is that its claim of origin is quite literally true.

Equally true is the fact that everyone knows that Jews completely and absolutely control major U.S. media. Would the news and human-interest stories you see be different if there were NO Jews in U.S. media? Would the point of view of media be different if every major media outlet of every type (TV, newspapers, magazines, books, entertainment films and documentaries, online news and commentary sites) were owned and controlled by Arabs?
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Why haven't the Saudi, Omani, UAE and other Arab oil billionaires bought up lots of U.S. media? Why not? Why not give us balance by ending Jewish dominance of media? Why the hell not?
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(Part 2 of this essay will appear tomorrow. It is of course much shorter, because it deals with redemption, which in the United States of today is much rarer than sin, be it political or any other kind.)
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,564.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 4:20 PM