I am deeply offended by the slanderous opinions your site publishes. Your authors are trying to twist definitions (such as anti-Semitic), try to twist the facts ( such as time - line of events in Palestine, according to which army seems to stage random attacks on Palestinians, whereas in reality each attack is either provoked, and yes provoked sometimes by PPL in civilian cloth, or is a response on anti-terrorist intelligence, and yes terrorists do wear civilian cloths too). The rampant hatred and anti-Israeli, even anti-Semitic bias of the opinions on your site is too obvious to make your opinions seems anything better than hateful propaganda and misinformation. Good luck with that.

AZ, United States

CC NOTE: AZ refers to Israeli Intelligence (Mossad / Shin Bet), though no mention of its false flag operation, (under the guise of Al Qaeda operatives) uncovered in The Philippines this past week or the multitude of false flag operations it has been caught in over the past 5-decades masquerading as Arabs, (beginning with former Prime Minister Begin's Israeli Irgun terrorists dressed as Arabs in the bombing of the King David Hotel in the 1940's)  Canadians, Americans or other nationalities.  Of course the CIA and other intelligence agencies also do the same thing. "By way of deception, we shall wage war" is not exclusive to Israeli Intelligence, though it is their motto. For additional articles on Mossad (Israeli Intelligence) caught posing as Al Qaeda terrorists see:

• larouchepub.com - Mossad Exposed in Phony 'Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper
   

• antiwar.com - By Way of Deception, by Justin Raimondo
   

• khilafah.com - PA uncovers Israelis posing as Al-Qaeda
   

• smh.com.au - Palestinians arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs'
   

• Ha'Aretz - Ibrahim, the Shin Bet wants you to join Qaida!
   

• Is 'Al Qaeda' the modern incarnation of 'Emmanuel Goldstein'?
   

• The 5 Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9/11
   

• A 'Palestinian Terrorist'

June 15, 2004 the following scandal began unfolding in Israel. Head of AMAN Research was accused of fabricating reports on 'insincere Arafat' and eventually creating the legend of 'Israel has no partners for peace'.  Yehudith Harel rightly condemns Israeli Left who was equally willing to embrace the AMAN's Black Legend.  Full Story: Amos Oz: The collaborator of Amos Gilad from within the Israeli Left

Response:

We're sorry if you're deeply offended by truth, but that does not change it. 

Technically, since it is written, the proper term would be libel, not slander.  Slander is spoken. Libel is written. It's easy to remember if you realize libro is book in Spanish, ergo 'Libel' is read. Also it is only libel if not backed by facts and instituted with malice for the purpose of discrediting, defaming or misguiding on false pretense.  Every statement in the article written by us is backed by quantifiably, verifiable, historical and/or proven facts with no malice intended. Because of this, it cannot be libel, propaganda or hateful. You simply disagree with the article based upon your body of knowledge and the experience you've acquired.  There is nothing wrong with that, this is a heavily complicated and propagandized  issue and you've given us the opportunity to clarify and hopefully ease some of your concerns.

To begin with the word anti-Semitic was invented in 1882 for Theodor Herzl's first meeting on Zionism. Spend some time reading his essay's including "The Jewish State" and you'll understand more about this.   He wanted a word to encapsulate the pogroms, elevate racism directed at those of the Jewish faith to a higher, more prestigious level and jointly vilify anyone objecting to his mission. Obviously this strategy has worked. From the beginning, the Zionist objective included the removal of indigent persons on the land later chosen for Israel via complete ethnic cleansing.

"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."

Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization,
speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.

Both Webster and Random House have come under fire for purposely misleading through propaganda the true meaning of this word by placing definitions for anti-Semitic with Jewish faith when it clearly states under the definition of Semitic, that Semitic is a person of Arabic origins who speaks one of the 6 Semitic languages, of which ancient Hebrew, not modern Hebrew is one.  During the twentieth century, both publishers added second notations under Semitic to include persons of the Jewish faith, but this is not historically accurate. It is blatant propaganda. Semitism denotes those of Arabic origin who are speakers of a language group, period, not a faith.  Arabs of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths are Semitic people; anyone who persecutes Arabs of any faith is engaging in anti-Semitism. Making it exclusively Jewish is propaganda born out of the Zionist movement.  This is a classic propaganda technique: accuse your opponents of doing what you are doing to deflect criticism, making them guilty of the crime you are committing. It's hilarious if you think about it. The world's most avid anti-Semites, the Israeli Government and its supporters accuse everyone else of anti-Semitism for objecting to their anti-Semitism. You really do have to admit it is ludicrous, genius, but ludicrous. We're not playing that game. 

As an American, we're sure you'll agree, racism is racism whether it is directed at persons practicing Judaism, Christianity or because of their origin or color of their skin.  If you want to call us anti-Semitic for opposing racism and the ethnic cleansing of Semites, so be it. With Joseph Mandela, Mel Gibson, Former President Jimmy Carter and The Pope, we'd say we're in good company. 

Secondly, Israel has maintained military superiority over all Arab states from the beginning. Again, this is quantifiable and verifiable fact. In 1948 the combined forces of all Arab nations equaled 21,000.  Israel's forces numbered over 60,000...that is a 3:1 ratio with military might in arms, tanks and training far superior to the Arab nations, most of these arms from the Post WWII Soviet Union.  Israel was never in danger of being overthrown, also a quantifiable and verifiable fact.  Israeli historian Benny Morris admitted this in Ha'aretz daily this past January and it is confirmed by historian Ilan Pappe and numerous articles by Noam Chomsky, David Hirsh, Israel Shamir, and other noted journalists and authors, Israeli or Jewish.

Sharon continues the founders of Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing since his early days in the Israeli Military beginning in the 1950's. 800,000 Arabs were forced off their land during those first years, many slaughtered and the genocide continues today. In 1967, as confirmed by the Israeli military:

"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war."

Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.

Israel under no threat from its neighbors invaded several countries including Jordan, Syria and Egypt. They also found time to murder 34 American sailors and wound another 171 during this time. In just six days Israel defeated all of those armies!  Even Hitler required 6-weeks to conquer Poland.  It took us 100 days to free Kuwait. Six days to conquer several nations! Never in the history of the world has an invasion and conquest been so complete in such a short period of time.  Does this strike you as a helpless, oppressed nation, an underdog?

With the 4th largest military in the world and over 600 weapons of mass destruction (it publicly has threatened to use on its neighbors), do you really believe the "security" and "self-defense" arguments?  Seems tanks, F-16's, nuclear weapons and bulldozers aren't enough to protect superpower Israel from rocks and homemade bombs. You've probably never noticed, the Palestinians have no army, no tanks, no missiles, no jets, no helicopters...no military period. The Fourth largest military and major nuclear power needs protection from militia made up of starving men and teenage boys throwing rocks, using the occasional smuggled gun and a few homemade bombs per year.  In the entire history of Israel fewer than 140 suicide bombs have been detonated, (the IDF shows a little over 100 since 1987 but we've seen other reports as high as 150 so we are estimating on the high side) and the first suicide terrorist was an Israeli in 1994; he killed 29 and wounded 300 at prayer.  And this man is a national hero in Israel! We hope that celebrating a mass murderer for killing of men and children at prayer in a mosque, disgusts you as much as it does us. This past January, another Israeli suicide bomber took out a city block in Palestine kamikaze style, killing 12.  Of course the US media doesn't report those. We had to read about the Israeli kamikaze in Ha'aretz.

As for Terrorists.  Israel claims 327 (of 3,544 kills, our 91% civilian number) assassinations of suspected terrorists, and all the rest of the thousands are bystanders.  None of those assassinated, including Sheik Yassin, were tried and convicted of anything. When police or the military act as judge and jury, this is the definition of a Police State and a primary component of a fascist country. Each "terrorist" is simply proclaimed to be terrorists and killed.  What is Israel afraid of in following proper law by arresting and giving the accused a day in court?  Three-hundred and twenty-seven people in 17 years, the Israeli jails and legal system can easily handle this. If these people are terrorists, Israel should not be afraid to try them because their trials, if they are in fact terrorists, would show Israel justified in its actions.  One has to wonder why they do not want the trials. The cost of one missile is greater than a trial and a lifetime in jail for up to 10, so economics isn't the reason. At last count, (May 2004)  based on Israeli official sources, less than 90 Israelis under the age of 18 have been killed from all military acts, including “suicide bombs” in the entire 17 years since the first Intifada. This count is taken from public available reports of all “suicide bombings” from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the propaganda arm of its military and the Israeli Defense Forces.  The former lists those killed by age and rank.  What democracy on this planet allows its military to play judge, jury and executioner?  Democracies and Republics do not do this.  Fascist countries, Dictatorships, Tyranny and Anarchists do.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israeli Defense Forces

For over 1,000 years Jews, Christians and Muslims shared the land in relative peace. This is a fact.  The myth that Arabs are the eternal enemies of the Jews comes from the 1967 footnote in the Scofield Study Bible added specifically to justify the 6-day war.  This is not based in fact.  It is propaganda. This is the primary religious source of Evangelical and Fundamental Christian Zionists which is why they state the conflict is "in the Bible". It is in the Scofield, which is propaganda and was created to bolster the Dispensationalist movement and secure Christian support for Israel.  It is not in the original Greek texts of the Bible, nor is this considered part of the Christian faith. The Israel of the Bible is not a country, but the church, those whom follow the one God.  The land is referred to as Palestine.

To learn more about the Schofield Study Bible and Dispensationalism, these tapes have proven very informative: Understanding the Error of Dispensationalism PT 1 & 2, Scofield's Bible: Theft of a Faith, and The Final Apostasy, all by religious and historical scholar, former dispensationalist Dr. Gordon Ginn, available at We Hold These Truths.  All tapes in English and are 1-hour in length.

The only reason Israel suffers from attacks is because of Israel's actions and the US support of these actions. This is also a fact. And what about the God excuse used by Israel and our own President Bush? Do you honestly believe God would require breaking his commandments, the laws he set forth to Moses, in order to fulfill his wishes?  Jewish, Christian or Muslim, we all follow the same Ten.  Why would He require their destruction to honor Him?  Can you see the flawed logic here? Israel's motivation is greed of land brought about by manufactured entitlement and elitism bolstered by cultivated paranoia and fear, hardly a just or righteous cause.  The Torah specifically forbids the creation of Israel by man, which is why tens of thousands of Jews have marched in New York and Washington this past year against US financial and military support of Israel and against its reference as "The Jewish State". Its creation is against their religion and they consider the treatment of the Palestinians to be immoral. Even former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres came out this past year and stated such, that "Israel has lost its international legitimacy, and most important its moral position".  He then advocated a complete withdrawal from all Palestinian territory, and if this did not happen soon, "catastrophe is waiting around the corner".  We're not saying anything the Israelis have not said themselves.

The Arabs' motivation is self-preservation, the moral high ground and the moral high ground ultimately wins. Greed is not a virtue.  Elitism is not a virtue. Entitlement is not a virtue. Defending one's family and life is.   Israel can never win with its present motivations; rather it will destroy itself with arrogance and possibly the United States with it, unless it faces what it is doing and attempts to work with its neighbors rather than annihilate them.  Israel is a nuclear power and its leaders have repeatedly stated publicly over several administrations they do not consider Arabs human. That is a deadly combination. Do you want annihilation? We don't. We're doing something about it.  What are you doing about it?

Fortunately many in Israel are doing something about it, and we support them 100%. These people are the hope and we've spoken with numerous Israeli students, soldiers and citizens who want this to end. The truth is dark, dirty and disgusting but every day people use rationalizations to excuse it or ignore it, more Israelis and more Palestinians die.  The truth eliminates the need for these deaths, if only people have the courage to get past the propaganda and the indiscriminate accusations of anti-Semitism by those ignorant to reality use to mask it.

And finally, you accuse us of being anti-Israel, which since we're Americans is irrelevant. No where in the US Constitution does it say we must be loyal, pledge solidarity or support a foreign government, in fact doing so usually constitutes treason. Our issues with Israel embody how it chooses to exist.  So let's clarify what we are anti. We are anti-apartheid, anti-genocide, anti-racism, anti-terror...policies Israel and the United States engage, promote and underwrite.  We are against lying, denying culpability and accountability in actions including the USS Liberty and Rachel Corrie. We are against the killing of people because of their faith. We are against the destruction of the Christian and Muslim holy sites Sharon's government is pursuing with a vengeance  We are against collective punishment and ethnic cleansing. We are against elitism, which says one group of people is more deserving of life than another. We are against twisting Biblical scripture to create reasons for immorality by both Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists.  We are against using Judaism, Christianity and Islam for self-righteously manufactured religious persecution, and equally against the use of these faiths as justification for immoral acts. We are against Talmudic inspired laws that promote and celebrate victimization, censorship (HR3077 & HR4230) litigious actions and the loss of personal accountability. To be pro-Israel as it currently exists requires supporting and condoning these actions, policies and ideas. We won't do that so we'd like to ask you this.

What causes you to call us anti-Semitic for opposing these policies and how would you suggest we protest them in a manner you would not consider anti-Semitic?  Our objections would be the same if England, Japan or Brazil were engaging these policies as Israel, with the US's blessing and money is today. To promote these policies by ignoring them or rationalizing them is not the way Americans do things. It is also morally wrong. To allow Israeli and US propaganda to continue unchallenged is unconscionable. After the German Holocaust, the world said never again.  As a global community we did not say never again unless the victimizers are Jewish.  We said never again period. How would you object to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity when those committing it automatically call all their critics anti-Semitic to hide their actions? If we must choose, shunning morality or being called anti-Semitic for doing the right thing, we'll choose to be vilified.  We have the truth on our side.

As long as Israel and the United States support these policies, we will continue to protest, write about it and inform people because they are not in our best interests as a nation, the United States. As long as Israel's influence on the US Government forces policies not healthy for America, and as long as its lobbies manipulate our legislators, professors and media into supporting and promoting laws, policies and ideas against the US Constitution and the best interests of the American people, we will continue to inform our readers, even if doing so is not currently politically correct and causes people to hate us or condemn us in the interim. We have serious issues with US tax dollars being used to kill civilians, with our Presidential and congressional representatives swearing solidarity to Israel, a foreign country when their job is to serve only US. We have serious issues with our government making decisions based upon Israeli needs rather than US interests, and with Israel's continued actions using our  money and blind support to perpetrate massive war crimes and crimes against humanity directly in violation of the US Constitution, Rome Statutes, 1907 Hague Regulations and the 4th Geneva Convention.  Israel's actions in the Occupied Territories and the US complicity in them are immoral. Supporting these policies constitutes a travesty.  Supporting, promoting and funding them is anti-American. The US Constitution and our principles do not stop at the Israeli border and our rights are not at the discretion of Israel's desires, needs or its lobby's pressure.  As American citizens and patriots, we would be remiss in our duties as citizens to allow these actions without protest by any country or special interest once we became aware of them. Unfortunately in this case, the perpetrator is Israel.  Believe us, we really wish it were not.

We appreciate your wishes for luck, but luck is only necessary when propagating a lie.  Since we're operating on truth, we'll trust God, not luck.  The odds are divinely better. 

Thank you however AZ for your comments.  If you'd like to learn more about what is really happening, away from the propaganda, we've created a article of resources we've found genuine. We greatly appreciate your comments and the opportunity to address them.  Though the feedback to this article has been overwhelmingly positive, we're sure many people share your concerns, even though they have not made them known.  Keep questioning and keep voicing your opinion.  That is one of the freedoms that makes America great.

For more information on the lengths supporters of Israel will go to in lobbying the US Government and for the complete liquidation of Arabs,  learn about the Israeli sponsored lobbying group: UCI: Unity Coalition for Israel. 

June 15, 2004: AZ did respond, though chose not to accept our requests for his input.  Rather he made broad generalizations (a tactic people use when they cannot counter and argument) and reaffirmed his accusations of anti-Semitism against us; defamation is a way to discredit rather than look at or argue the issues, (generally because they cannot) so the attempt is made to discredit the messenger since the message cannot be discredited. Both generalization and characterization are propaganda tactics.

We're publishing his second response, as is and unedited this time (we cleaned up the grammatical errors in the first) because it shows how divisive this issue is and where the problems lie.  It also shows why so many in the media are afraid to tackle this issue head on.  The hatred of those supporting the genocide is so deep, nothing but their rationalization is worth considering and all persons not supporting their mission are considered the enemy.  This type of angry input is endured by anyone, whether a President, journalist or common man questioning and confronting the issue in writing or conversation. This hatred and the concurrent refusal to discuss the issues is the main barrier to peace in the Middle East, and surprisingly, at least in our experience, it most often comes from those of the Christian, (Evangelical), not Jewish or Muslim faiths.  This is the personal forward we sent with the e-mail including the above.

As i noted before, u are so biased u cannot see it anymore.... Neither education nor fiance would be of any help, when u your political glasses are skewed... Old chinese proverb says ))) to talk about things u first have to define them. If u start with using ur own definitions -- u are trying to talk to yourself and your own cult. AZ
 

The following article was published on CounterPunch, June 17, 2004 a full month after this article confronting Krauthammer appeared on Couples Company. Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine.
 

Shaheen,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada