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Re: SOME PRO ISREAL READ!
I wanted to highlight a few things before adding....
Here we go ... bust out the beer to soak the brain and let this sink in.
According to Paul Findley(former US Congress), "Since 1985 all US aid to Israel has been a grant, meaning that not a penny of it has to be repaid. [And w]hen Israel pays interest and principal on loans given before 1985, it does so with US tax dollars. This curious process began in 1984 when Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California sponsored what became known as the Cranston amendment. It stipulates that economic aid to Israel each year will be at least equal to its annual repayments (principal and interest) of its debt to the United States. In the wry words of then Secretary of State James A. Baker III in testimony before the Senate in 1992, ...'we can always pay ourselves back with the money that we appropriate for Israel to do so.'
"The effect of this amendment is to guarantee that Israel will always receive enough US aid to cover its debt obligations. In actual practice, Congress always awards Israel funds far in excess of these obligations. No other country enjoys such an arrangement."
Hmmmm... sounds a little shady to me? Does this sound right to you? OK... onto somthing else. This is long.. but just read this....
09-10-00
Torture in Israel
Secret U.S. Governemnt Cables about "Systematic Israeli Torture" Were
Published 21 Tears Ago!
On Sunday, CNN, the world's most Israeli-centered TV network, finally did a story about torture in Israel.
But it wasn't a story about the decades of brutal torture to which quite literally thousands and thousands of Palestinian have been subjected -- with the world (and CNN) always looking the other way. It was a story about one American, detained and relatively mildly tortured. And all this is more of the old ongoing story whereby one American gets mistreated and its headline news, thousands and thousands of people get historically raped and physically tortured far worse, and that story is never quite honestly reported or put in proper perspective.
Plus there's the simple matter that with this torture in Israel story CNN is some 21 years late! It's another case of much too little, much too late, much too misreported.
Secret State Department documents detailing "systematic torture" in Israel were first uncovered and published by now MER Publisher, Mark Bruzonsky, years ago.
Bruzonsky, then Associate Editor of WORLDVIEW Magazine and credentialed to the State Department, obtained the classified documents from serving State Department officials who were aghast at what Israel was doing and wanted to make it known to the world.
The story of how these documents were set it type and scheduled to be the front-page article in THE VILLAGE VOICE newspaper -- the top editor and Bruzonsky working intensively over a long weekend to make this possible -- and then at the last moment the presses were stopped by persons associated with the Israeli/Jewish lobby, and the article spiked...this is a story never yet told publicly.
Bruzonsky was also at the time the Interview Editor for THE MIDDLE EAST Magazine in London. He immediately flew to London and the full text of the classified State Department cables detailing the "systematic use of torture" by the Israelis, carefully documented by U.S. government officials, was published for all the world to read quite a long time ago.
For those interested, it's the April 1979 issue.
As for CNN, now that they've got their toes wet with this major story, why don't they do it right, including exposing why and how the U.S. has been complicitous in all this for decades, knowing in detail what, how, and where, the Israelis do their tortuous deeds.
I wanted to highlight a few things before adding....
Alex Cross said:Good gracious.... I feel like I am the only Pro-Isreal, Jewish Democrat in this whole goddamned place!!![]()
I am real into politics, and follow it quite closely- as much as my 21 year old beer soaked brain will allow- but there is two sides to every story. And that is, and always is the fact. Regardless.
Remember this guys. You might think that Isreal are terrorist because they blow up some camel fuckers in Palestine...But remember that they are OUR allies... Remember the people they are fighting, even though they might use dirty tactics at times, are the same people that want america to suffer and for our capitalistic society to suffer with great pain. They kill our fucking innocent women in children with bombs and planes. They make millions upon millions of americans suffer. So if Isreal uses some terroristic "type" tactics to fight these people- SO BE IT!
A/C
Here we go ... bust out the beer to soak the brain and let this sink in.
According to Paul Findley(former US Congress), "Since 1985 all US aid to Israel has been a grant, meaning that not a penny of it has to be repaid. [And w]hen Israel pays interest and principal on loans given before 1985, it does so with US tax dollars. This curious process began in 1984 when Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California sponsored what became known as the Cranston amendment. It stipulates that economic aid to Israel each year will be at least equal to its annual repayments (principal and interest) of its debt to the United States. In the wry words of then Secretary of State James A. Baker III in testimony before the Senate in 1992, ...'we can always pay ourselves back with the money that we appropriate for Israel to do so.'
"The effect of this amendment is to guarantee that Israel will always receive enough US aid to cover its debt obligations. In actual practice, Congress always awards Israel funds far in excess of these obligations. No other country enjoys such an arrangement."
Hmmmm... sounds a little shady to me? Does this sound right to you? OK... onto somthing else. This is long.. but just read this....
09-10-00
Torture in Israel
Secret U.S. Governemnt Cables about "Systematic Israeli Torture" Were
Published 21 Tears Ago!
On Sunday, CNN, the world's most Israeli-centered TV network, finally did a story about torture in Israel.
But it wasn't a story about the decades of brutal torture to which quite literally thousands and thousands of Palestinian have been subjected -- with the world (and CNN) always looking the other way. It was a story about one American, detained and relatively mildly tortured. And all this is more of the old ongoing story whereby one American gets mistreated and its headline news, thousands and thousands of people get historically raped and physically tortured far worse, and that story is never quite honestly reported or put in proper perspective.
Plus there's the simple matter that with this torture in Israel story CNN is some 21 years late! It's another case of much too little, much too late, much too misreported.
Secret State Department documents detailing "systematic torture" in Israel were first uncovered and published by now MER Publisher, Mark Bruzonsky, years ago.
Bruzonsky, then Associate Editor of WORLDVIEW Magazine and credentialed to the State Department, obtained the classified documents from serving State Department officials who were aghast at what Israel was doing and wanted to make it known to the world.
The story of how these documents were set it type and scheduled to be the front-page article in THE VILLAGE VOICE newspaper -- the top editor and Bruzonsky working intensively over a long weekend to make this possible -- and then at the last moment the presses were stopped by persons associated with the Israeli/Jewish lobby, and the article spiked...this is a story never yet told publicly.
Bruzonsky was also at the time the Interview Editor for THE MIDDLE EAST Magazine in London. He immediately flew to London and the full text of the classified State Department cables detailing the "systematic use of torture" by the Israelis, carefully documented by U.S. government officials, was published for all the world to read quite a long time ago.
For those interested, it's the April 1979 issue.
As for CNN, now that they've got their toes wet with this major story, why don't they do it right, including exposing why and how the U.S. has been complicitous in all this for decades, knowing in detail what, how, and where, the Israelis do their tortuous deeds.