LP_Blower said:
Bergen said:
Israel kills UN troops and bombs UN installations - No condemnation US veto.
RM
Yes, I was quite surprised that didn't seem to create anything more than a ripple at the UN.
O.K. So if this is all going on and the mainstream media are keeping their heads down, who is reporting on these events? In an un-biased and accurate manner, that is and not just trying to push their own poitical agenda.
LPB - Good question and a hard one to answer without writing a book. The pro-Israeli lobby in the USA [and indeed all western countries] is empowered by several things:
i. The holocaust industry. The collective western guilt is played brilliantly by the Israelis and Germany in particular is in permanent moral debt. Why there is no guilt over the forced evictions of Palestinians from their own lands and abuse and victimisation during 27 years of Israeli occupation is another story. Guilt, in short, is easily managed, and can be brought into play effectively by those powerful enough to mobilise it for their own purposes.
ii. The use of Israel as a strategic asset inside the middle-east. The USA has used Israel as a surrogate in covert support of regimes in Iran, Haiti, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Zaire. When the full history of the torture in Iraq is finally revealed it will be seen that the USA was using IDF interrogators inside Iraq.
iii. AIPAC itself is not a PAC [Political Action Committee] and therefore is able to avoid any scrutiny. It does however support around 60 PAC's which all lobby and raise funds on behalf of Israel. The power of the Israeli lobbies is extraordinary and the power is used to keep a lid on any public debate or exposure of Israeli abuses. There are about 50,000 AIPAC supporters in the USA and several hundred thousand others who are encouraged to write letters, make phone calls to editors and reporters whenever Israeli actions are being exposed. It is a tremendous flak machine that greatly constrains free speech and debate. When one of the officers of the USS Liberty wrote a book about the Israeli attack on his ship he was heckled every time he appeared in public and accused of being anti-semitic and when he appeared on TV the stations were inundated with threatening phone-calls and abuse.
I refer to the USS Liberty a lot because the power of the Israeli lobby was stunningly blatant. The skipper was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor..............but it was done secretly in a naval dockyard with no publicity. No-one wanted to highlight that 34 US sailors had been killed and 121 wounded by the Israelis in order to prevent intelligence compromising the Israeli attack and annexation of the Golan Heights which took place the next day.
There are several reporters who do report what is really going on and funnily enough the debate within Israel is not as constrained nor criticism of the Zionists as strangled as in the west. An Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, can usually be open and truthful about the facts and about what the Zionists are up to in the West Bank and Gaza.
The bottom-line is that all the massacres of civilians committed by the Israelis are either not reported or under-reported. Think of how the Israelis shelled Palestinian families picnicking on the beach and then denied the evidence, how they are presently blocking the UN investigation of the Beit Hanoun massacre by preventing UN access, how they dropped 36 x 155mm artillery shells on the Fijian UN compound at Qana killing 100 women and children, the massacres of Shatilla and the ongoing killing of children on a daily basis. Every UN condemnation of Israel's actions has been vetoed in the UN by the USA. Israel acts with impunity using the finest weapons that the US tax-payer can buy.
Israel has refused to sign the NPT.....Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.......Iran has.
Israel refuses to allow any IEAE inspection of its nuclear facilities........Iran allows them.
Israel has threatened it's neigbours with nuclear weapons and has exploded an atmospheric atomic device in the South Atlantic.
The list goes on and on but I guess that what we have to do is look beyond the face value of what is reported especially where Israel is concerned.
RM
