[Peace-discuss] Re: Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 21

[John Bambenek]

I'm confused... I thought the International Zionist plot controlled
America, now Zionism is really American power projection?

I'm so confused.

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>   1. Parallels (Morton K. Brussel)
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> From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>
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> We need to be continually reminded of the vicious state of affairs
> which our government has created. Here's an excerpt from John Pilfer:
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> http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10442
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> …The struggle in Palestine is an American war, waged from America's
> most heavily armed foreign military base, Israel. In the West, we are
> conditioned not to think of the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" in
> those terms, just as we are conditioned to think of the Israelis as
> victims, not illegal and brutal occupiers. This is not to
> underestimate the ruthless initiatives of the Israeli state, but
> without F-16s and Apaches and billions of American taxpayers'
> dollars, Israel would have made peace with the Palestinians long ago.
> Since the Second World War, the U.S. has given Israel some $140
> billion, much of it as armaments. According to the Congressional
> Research Service, the same "aid" budget was to include $28 million
> "to help [Palestinian] children deal with the current conflict
> situation" and to provide "basic first aid." That has now been vetoed.
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> Karma Nabulsi's comparison with Iraq is apposite, for the same
> "policy" applies there. The capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a
> wonderful media event: what the philosopher Hannah Arendt called
> "action as propaganda," and having little bearing on reality. The
> Americans and those who act as their bullhorn have their demon – even
> a video game of his house being blown up. The truth is that Zarqawi
> was largely their creation. His apparent killing serves an important
> propaganda purpose, distracting us in the west from the American goal
> of converting Iraq, like Palestine, into a powerless society of
> ethnic and religious tribalism. Death squads, formed and trained by
> veterans of the CIA's "counterinsurgency" in central America, are
> critical to this. The Special Police Commandos, a CIA creation led by
> former senior intelligence officers in Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party,
> are perhaps the most brutal. The Zarqawi killing and the myths about
> his importance also deflect from routine massacres by U.S. soldiers,
> such as the one at Haditha. Even the puppet Prime Minister Nouri al-
> Maliki complains that murderous behavior of U.S. troops is "a daily
> occurrence." As I learned in Vietnam, a form of serial killing, then
> known officially as "body count," is the way the Americans fight
> their colonial wars.
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> This is known as "pacification." …
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