[Peace-discuss] A polemic …

[Morton K. Brussel]

An impassioned statement of frustration:  We need such an up-welling  
of anger, as in Mexico City these recent days, to make the government  
change its barbaric policies. Whether that can be done in this land  
is problematical.  --mkb

Israel's Appeasement: A Darkness Unto Nations

By Frank Scott

Al-Jazeerah, August 1, 2006

The assault on morality that is American - Israeli foreign policy  
sank to lower depths with the attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. It may not  
be long before Iran and Syria are included in this latest round of  
racial supremacist brutality in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Israel's  
appeasement continues, with its chorus in American government loudly  
singing support for its retaliatory murders of hundreds of  
civilians , initially justified by the capture of three of its  
soldiers . There are still some who deny the power of the Zionist  
lobby , but they make as much sense as those who deny the threat of  
global warming .

At one time exclusively Jewish , that lobby now has assistance from  
evangelical Christians who share its basic scriptural views, though  
biblical interpretation finds them in less than total agreement about  
all things unexplainable and immaterial. Nevertheless, both belief  
systems are united concerning their special holiness and supernatural  
importance in the eyes of their patriarchal creator. The world should  
indeed tremble, but that will hardly solve the problem.

Even the soft spoken head of the U.N. called the Israeli actions  
state terrorism, though his murmur was barely heard through the din  
of clamorous support from our executive white house , echoed by its  
congressional out house. Calling this abomination a representative  
government is an assault on language and reason , second only to the  
assault on humanity presently being conducted by this perverse  
democracy.

While they express horror at other nations weaponry - real or  
imagined - the US and Israel bristle with nuclear weapons, have  
occupying armies in foreign lands, and are run by regimes dangerous  
in their frenzied worship of markets, and in their fanatic belief  
that they are specially blessed by the mysterious founding power of  
the universe. Religion is a natural creation of humanity in trying to  
explain the unknowable, but when it serves as a rationalization of  
the unthinkable, it is an aberration threatening the future of all  
people, whether their belief system relies on material faith or  
immaterial myth.

If a messianic mania among the leadership were our only problem it  
would be more than enough to cause fear for our collective future.  
But that is only one small part of a condition which has long  
bordered on insane, and may be getting beyond even that stage of  
mindlessness.

An apartheid state has embarked on a new drive to obliterate what  
little remains of security for the original inhabitants of Palestine,  
never much since that land was wiped off the map . Israel's  
manufactured birth in 1948 was Palestine's organic death , its native  
population either thrown into a Diaspora , a refugee camp or  
guaranteed a future under the control of occupying invaders. That  
these invaders are seen by much of the western world as superior  
beings among a collection of indigenous savages should not be  
surprising, given the history of western colonialism. But that it  
came into existence after that ugliest phase of imperial racism was  
supposed to have ended is shocking, at least to most of the planet's  
people. That majority adheres to neither the Judeo nor Christian  
founding myth that serves as arthritic backbone for a sadistic view  
of those not chosen by the deity for superiority on earth.

We must understand that the summit of global rule in Washington and  
Tel Aviv is seen by much of the world as twin towers of state  
terror . Present bloody policies emanating from these headquarters  
are nothing new, but seem more deadly serious because the global  
ruled are beginning to strike back at their rulers. When governments  
fail, NGOs like Hamas and Hizbulah come into existence to represent  
their people, and it is the military and democratic advances of these  
groups which are driving the colonialists crazy.

The over extended USA continues spreading global chaos in trying to  
maintain its empire and satisfy its domination dementia. Spanning  
less territory but just as much inhumanity, Israel is finally  
beginning to lose its aura of long suffering sadness brought on by a  
wicked world of evil gentiles, especially Arabs. This was always a  
preposterous trick played on public consciousness, but never as  
brutally evident as in its present behavior towards not only  
Palestinians but the Lebanese as well, in an area it claims as the  
deity's real estate gift to special Semites -though it is presently  
claimed and run mostly by extra special Europeans.

While the U.N. performs as a trained seal about what are called  
threats from North Korea and Iran, the real menace of the world's  
most deadly rogue state may cause further global explosions if it is  
not subdued by genuine international force. That rogue is nearing  
total uncontrol, lashing out in savage fury at innocent civilians, in  
vengeance for its loss of elections and soldiers. Many more may incur  
its wrath if it is not brought under some measure of control.

Israel's birth was hailed as creating a light among nations, despite  
the darkness it brought to those whose land was taken as fuel for  
this alleged illumination. Biblical atonement for the sins of the  
second world war was visited upon people who had nothing to do with  
it, and the profiteers from this land theft have gloated over their  
national coupe for a generation of glorious growth, for them, and  
suffering humiliation for Palestinians. It is time for the world to  
wake up, and while much of it has, its leadership continues  
worshipping myth , denying reality and creating islamophobia. It is  
for Americans to come out of their induced fog and confront a  
situation that becomes more frightening each day the injustice in the  
middle east continues. The fire next time may not be there, but here.
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