Check out the Times and review it for coverage on the blockbuster, possible glaring headline relating to the Israeli spy story. Find anything? Didn’t think you would; it’s just too hard to find. You’ll need to do a search, and if you’re lucky, you’ll find some watered-down version of the story. But the leading, "fair and balanced" website? NOT ONE ARTICLE! Not one!!!
I have recently pointed out how a certain website has viciously attacked a Protestant Church, and to be sure, also attacked the Catholic Church as regards their stigma of pedophilic homosexuality. A Jewish writer and commentator for that website viciously attacked the Presbyterian Church because it decided to divest itself of supplying financial aid to Israel.
The Presbyterian Church USA took this action because of the Bush administration’s pact with Israel authorizing and protecting Israel from international intervention in administering apartheid policies and ethnocidal atrocities and mass murder against the Palestinians in stealing their land and homes. And while the Presbyterian Church USA took this courageous step against Israel, the Catholic Church, via a South American conference, decided that the nation of Israel is a bonafide religion! They adopted a resolution that criticism of the state of Israel is tantamount to blasphemy, or is at least, "anti-Semitic."
The tortured reasoning, better defined as the flimsy excuses offered by President George Bush and his Republican administration, to excuse and justify the invasion and unnecessary war in Iraq, motivate all with an alert mind for the need for more scrutiny and a crisper understanding for our incursions into that sovereign nation. Iraq was not involved in 9-11 and could never have launched an attack, nuclear or otherwise, against the United States. Why did we preemptively attack it and get ourselves involved in this unjust and unconstitutional war? The answer is, of course, Israel.
The "fair-and-balanced" website previously mentioned, can easily be defined as a Christian Zionist propaganda-producing website. The site loves Israel. As Professor Juan Cole put it: "Moreover, AIPAC leverages its power by an alliance with the Christian Right, which has adopted a bizarre ideology of ‘Christian Zionism.’ It holds that the sooner the Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, the sooner Christ will come back. Without millions of these Christian Zionist allies, AIPAC would be much less influential and effective."
And on the occasion of Senator Fritz Hollings [D-GA] retirement, Cole quotes Hollings:
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But in any event [the Neocons say,], the better way to do it is go right in and establish our predominance in Iraq and then, as they say, and I have different articles here I could refer to, next is Iran and then Syria. And it is the domino theory, and they genuinely believe it. I differ. I think, frankly, we have caused more terrorism than we have gotten rid of. That is my Israel policy. You can't have an Israel policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here. I have followed them mostly in the main, but I have also resisted signing certain letters from time to time, to give the poor President a chance. I can tell you no President takes office – I don't care whether it is a Republican or a Democrat – that all of a sudden AIPAC will tell him exactly what the policy is, and Senators and members of Congress ought to sign letters. I read those carefully and I have joined in most of them. On some I have held back. I have my own idea and my own policy. I have stated it categorically. The way to really get peace is not militarily."AIPAC runs the country, from the White House to the Congress. And now, Israel and AIPAC have been caught spying on US. How is this NOT news???
So browse the web, and check out who’s reporting this event vital to the continuance of our free society. And please take note also of who’s not reporting it!
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