Gentle reader, do you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.
Do you know that one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel’s attacks on civilian residential districts are children? That is the report from Jan Egeland, the emergency relief coordinator for the UN. He says it is impossible for help to reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost always) Israel misses Hizbollah targets and hits civilian ones, one might think that Israeli fire is being guided by US satellites and US military GPS. Don’t be surprised at US complicity. Why would the puppet be any less evil than the puppet master?
Of course, you don’t know these things, because the US print and TV media do not report them.
Because Bush is so proud of himself, you do know that he has blocked every effort to stop the Israeli slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Bush has told the UN "NO." Bush has told the European Community "NO." Bush has told the pro-American Lebanese prime minister "NO." Twice. Bush is very proud of his firmness. He is enjoying Israel’s rampage and wishes he could do the same thing in Iraq.
Does it make you a Proud American that "your" president gave Israel the green light to drop bombs on convoys of villagers fleeing from Israeli shelling, on residential neighborhoods in the capital of Beirut and throughout Lebanon, on hospitals, on power plants, on food production and storage, on ports, on civilian airports, on bridges, on roads, on every piece of infrastructure on which civilized life depends?
Are you a Proud American? Or are you an Israeli puppet?
On July 20, "your" House of Representatives voted 410-8 in favor of Israel’s massive war crimes in Lebanon. Not content with making every American complicit in war crimes, "your" House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press, also "condemns enemies of the Jewish state."
Who are the "enemies of the Jewish state"?
They are the Palestinians whose land has been stolen by the Jewish state, whose homes and olive groves have been destroyed by the Jewish state, whose children have been shot down in the streets by the Jewish state, whose women have been abused by the Jewish state. They are Palestinians who have been walled off into ghettos, who cannot reach their farm lands or medical care or schools, who cannot drive on roads through Palestine that have been constructed for Israelis only. They are Palestinians whose ancient towns have been invaded by militant Zionist "settlers" under the protection of the Israeli army who beat and persecute the Palestinians and drive them out of their towns. They are Palestinians who cannot allow their children outside their homes because they will be murdered by Israeli "settlers."
The Palestinians who confront Israeli evil are called "terrorists." When Bush forced free elections on Palestine, the people voted for Hamas. Hamas is the organization that has stood up to the Jewish state. This means, of course, that Hamas is evil, anti-Semitic, un-American and terrorist. The US and Israel responded by cutting off all funds to the new government. Democracy is permitted only if it produces the results Bush and Israel want.
Israelis never practice terror. Only those who are in Israel’s way are terrorists.
Another enemy of the Jewish state is Hizbollah. Hizbollah is a militia of Shia Muslims created in 1982 when Israel first invaded Lebanon. During this invasion the great moral Jewish state arranged for the murder of refugees in refugee camps. The result of Israel’s atrocities was Hizbollah, which fought the Israeli army, defeated it, and drove it, with its Satanic tail between its legs, out of Lebanon. Today Hizbollah not only defends southern Lebanon but also provides social services such as orphanages and medical care.
To cut to the chase, the enemies of the Jewish state are any Muslim country not ruled by an American puppet friendly to Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates have sided with Israel against their own kind, because they are dependent either on American money or on American protection from their own people. Sooner or later these totally corrupt governments that do not represent the people they rule will be overthrown. It is only a matter of time.
Indeed Bush and Israel may be hastening the process in their frantic effort to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran. Both governments have more popular support than Bush has, but the White House Moron doesn’t know this. The Moron thinks Syria and Iran will be "cakewalks" like Iraq, where ten proud divisions of the US military are tied down by a few lightly armed insurgents.
If you are still a Proud American, consider that your pride is doing nothing good for Israel or for America.
On July 20 when "your" House of Representatives, following "your" US Senate, passed the resolution in support of Israel’s war crimes, the most powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), quickly got out a press release proclaiming"The American people overwhelming support Israel’s war on terrorism and understand that we must stand by our closest ally in this time of crisis."
The truth is that Israel created the crisis by invading a country with a pro-American government. The truth is that the American people do not support Israel’s war crimes, as the CNN quick poll results make clear and as was made clear by callers into C-Span.
Despite the Israeli spin on news provided by US "reporting," a majority of Americans do not approve of Israeli atrocities against Lebanese civilians. Hizbollah is located in southern Lebanon. If Israel is targeting Hizbollah, why are Israeli bombs falling on northern Lebanon? Why are they falling on Beirut? Why are they falling on civilian airports? On schools and hospitals?
Now we arrive at the main point. When the US Senate and House of Representatives pass resolutions in support of Israeli war crimes and condemn those who resist Israeli aggression, the Senate and House confirm Osama bin Laden’s propaganda that America stands with Israel against the Arab and Muslim world.
Indeed, Israel, which has one of the world’s largest per capita incomes, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Many believe that much of this "aid" comes back to AIPAC, which uses it to elect "our" representatives in Congress.
This perception is no favor to Israel, whose population is declining, as the smart ones have seen the writing on the wall and have been leaving. Israel is surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims who are being turned into enemies of Israel by Israel’s actions and inhumane policies.
The hope in the Muslim world has always been that the United States would intervene in behalf of compromise and make Israel realize that Israel cannot steal Palestine and turn every Palestinian into a refugee.
This has been the hope of the Arab world. This is the reason our puppets have not been overthrown. This hope is the reason America still had some prestige in the Arab world.
The House of Representatives resolution, bought and paid for by AIPAC money, is the final nail in the coffin of American prestige in the Middle East. It shows that America is, indeed, Israel’s puppet, just as Osama bin Laden says, and as a majority of Muslims believe.
With hope and diplomacy dead, henceforth America and Israel have only tooth and claw. The vaunted Israeli army could not defeat a rag tag militia in southern Lebanon. The vaunted US military cannot defeat a rag tag, lightly armed, insurgency drawn from a minority of the population in Iraq, insurgents, moreover, who are mainly engaged in civil war against the Shia majority.
What will the US and its puppet master do? Both are too full of hubris and paranoia to admit their terrible mistakes. Israel and the US will either destroy from the air the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iran so that civilized life becomes impossible for Muslims, or the US and Israel will use nuclear weapons to intimidate Muslims into acquiescence to Israel’s desires.
Muslim genocide in one form or another is the professed goal of the neoconservatives who have total control over the Bush administration. Neocon godfather Norman Podhoretz has called for World War IV (in neocon thinking WW III was the cold war) to overthrow Islam in the Middle East, deracinate the Islamic religion and turn it into a formalized, secular ritual.
Rumsfeld’s neocon Pentagon has drafted new US war doctrine that permits pre-emptive nuclear attack on non-nuclear states.
Neocon David Horowitz says that by slaughtering Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, "Israel is doing the work of the rest of the civilized world," thus equating war criminals with civilized men.
Neocon Larry Kudlow says that "Israel is doing the Lord’s work"by murdering Lebanese, a claim that should give pause to Israel’s Christian evangelical supporters. Where does the Lord Jesus say, "go forth and murder your neighbors so that you may steal their lands"?
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
The Americans are good people. But the wicked administers do not allow them to live in peace and harmony. For they are trying to please the arm traders who gave them a huge sum in the presidential election. Isn't the case, my friends?
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
The American administers are trying to destroy Islam and Muslims. But the sincere Americans are going fast to study Islam and recieve it as a life line. In fact, this is the main cause of these cruel wars against the Muslim Countries.One thing is sure, that is the Islam is God's favourite religion, so He will protect it from the black hands of American and Israelite's.
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
format_quote Originally Posted by kader
The American administers are trying to destroy Islam and Muslims. But the sincere Americans are going fast to study Islam and recieve it as a life line. In fact, this is the main cause of these cruel wars against the Muslim Countries.One thing is sure, that is the Islam is God's favourite religion, so He will protect it from the black hands of American and Israelite's.
If the "American administers" wanted to destroy Islam and Muslims they would be destroying Islam and Muslims...is that happening? A war against a Muslim country isn't automatically trying to destroy Islam and Muslims, no more than a war against Japan was an attempt to destroy Asian people and Buddhism.
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
I'm a proud American, I was during the Clinton Administration, and am still today, but far less, thanks to Master Puppet Bush, thanks a lot. His embarrassing attempts at Globalization are terribly flawed; in NAFTA, CAFTA, The Americas Summit, his WTO status, and his infamous status with REAL Muslims and not their puppet leaders. He is a man controlled by lobbyists, money, and the interests of others.
Hopefully, our next leader will be a good one, one that both Americans and the World community can tolerate.
-Dahir, the Classical American!
"This world is a blank price tag, and whatever value you put on it, is what its worth to you. I have made this world priceless and worthless, so therefore I have placed my value in the afterlife."
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
^^^ I feel the same way Wilbur and Majed feel. Good people, good nation, but both are cheated by their leaders.
"This world is a blank price tag, and whatever value you put on it, is what its worth to you. I have made this world priceless and worthless, so therefore I have placed my value in the afterlife."
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
im not to proud
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In the heavens and the earth there are certainly signs for the believers. And in your creation and all the creatures He has scattered about there are signs for people with certainty.
(Surat al-Jathiyah: 3-4)
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
well i lilke the country i am but i feel that i need to move to nation where my ideals and appearance are not look DOWN upon, have these ppl not learn anything the more you exploit islam, the more you turn ppl who would never have never known anything about islam to know islam therefore causing the muslim population to grow more
ever since attack on 9/11 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS PPL HAVE BEGAN TO STUDY ISLAM AND CONVERTED TO ISLAM AND PPL WHO WERE ASHAME OF BEING MUSLIM HAVE NOW COME OUT WITH IT, LIKE MYSELF I WAS BORN MUSLIM BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 2002 THAT I BEGAN TO TELL PPL I WAS MUSLIM
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
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format_quote Originally Posted by sweetbanana86
well i lilke the country i am but i feel that i need to move to nation where my ideals and appearance are not look DOWN upon, have these ppl not learn anything the more you exploit islam, the more you turn ppl who would never have never known anything about islam to know islam therefore causing the muslim population to grow more
ever since attack on 9/11 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS PPL HAVE BEGAN TO STUDY ISLAM AND CONVERTED TO ISLAM AND PPL WHO WERE ASHAME OF BEING MUSLIM HAVE NOW COME OUT WITH IT, LIKE MYSELF I WAS BORN MUSLIM BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 2002 THAT I BEGAN TO TELL PPL I WAS MUSLIM
[/S]I cannot understand the cause of feeling shame about being Muslim because of the event of 9/11. For the Muslims or Islam are not responsible that huge crime. The World Muslims have condemned the event just after the event has taken place. Moreover, Allah has warned believers such that doings. Allah says in His Holy Quran:
'And let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety. And fear Allah. For Allah is Well - Acquinted with all that ye do.'
[Al- Maeda.9]
The culprits of the crime haven't found out up to date. But the enemies of Islam and Muslims trying to spread suspecions among the sincere people about Muslims. It is a fact that the Jews also suspected in this attack, but none of the Police Nations tried to destroy Jews and their nation Israel on that name. But alas! America marched to Afganistan and destroyed that country in the name of this suspecion.It marched to Iraq after that and desroyed it and now in readiness to March to another Muslim country, Iran, in same reason.
Re: The Shame of Being an American ~ by Paul Craig Roberts
format_quote Originally Posted by Keltoi
If the "American administers" wanted to destroy Islam and Muslims they would be destroying Islam and Muslims...is that happening? A war against a Muslim country isn't automatically trying to destroy Islam and Muslims, no more than a war against Japan was an attempt to destroy Asian people and Buddhism.
How can they do it, my friend? Muslims believe in ALLAH. He will protect them if He wish, and destry them if He wish so. But the American authorities cannot destry them if Allah wish to protect them. That is what we see all over the world.We can read this fact in a saying of Prophet Muhammad(s):
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Abu al-‘Abbas ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbas, radiyallahu anhuma, reported: One day I was behind the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, and he said to me:
"O young man, I shall teach you some words [of advice] : Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and you will find Him in front of you. If you (have need to) ask, ask of Allah; and if you seek help, seek help from Allah. Know that even if the Nation (or the whole community) were to gather together to benefit you with something, they would not benefit you with anything except that which Allah has already recorded for you, and that if they gather together to harm you with something, they would not be able to harm you with anything except that which Allah has already recorded against you. The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried."
[Al-Tirmidhi relates this and says: It is a good, genuine Hadith]
In a version other than that of al-Tirmidhi it reads:
"..Be mindful of Allah, you will find Him before you. Get to know Allah in prosperity and He will know you in adversity. Know that what has passed you by was not going to befall you; and that what has befallen you was not going to pass you by. And know that victory comes with patience, relief with affliction, and ease with hardship."
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