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Israels Hidden Faces:A Long Days Night for Us All

By Dr. Alan Sabrosky*

*Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine

Corps veteran and a 1986 graduate of the US Army War College



�

Far too often, issues involving Israel and its actionsare addressed in a sophisticated and complex

manner, often with little or no linkage among them.

� This is fine for professionals who are well versed in

the subject matter, and can infer detail and linkageswhere none is explicitly given or made.

� But it is NOT acceptable for a general public, most of

whom are not even aware that these issues exist,

and have been exposed to a steady diet of pro-Israel

propaganda throughout most if not all of their lives.



� This is intended as a primer for that general public,

especially in the US, hoping that others may also find

useful material in it.

� This can be used in many ways, but I would focus onstate & local officials, newspapers & radio & TV

stations, and veterans groups. The classic grass

roots approach is the only way to circumvent the

virtual lock the Zionists have at the national level in

the political realm and the media. So let us begin.



Towards a Changing View

� I began as a supporter of Israel. I knew nothing of the Nakba (Israels ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948) and wouldnt have cared

much if I had heard of it. In the years of death,ethnic cleansing & resettlement of peoples duringand after WWII, it just didnt matter.

� And with the USSR supporting most of the Arab

countries, US support of Israel (like Iran under theShah) made sense. It was only in the aftermath of the Six Days War (1967) that things changed.



Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty

� On June 8, 1967, early in the Six-Day Middle

East War, Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo

boats attacked the USS Li bert y , a US Navy

intelligence ship off the coast. Over 200 sailors

and Marines were killed or wounded. Israel

declared it had mistaken the ship for an

Egyptian horse transport, and the USGovernment accepted that explanation. So did

I, until 8 years later. Then I learned.



The USS Liberty Incident

The US & Egyptian Ships What Israeli Pilots Saw



USS Liberty Under Israeli Attack

Before the Israeli Attack After the Israeli Attack



Aftermath of the Israeli Attack

Those who made it. .and those who didnt.



� Separate attempts by the two carriers with the

US 6th Fleet to launch aircraft to come to the

rescue of the USS Li bert y were recalled: Thefirst by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara;

the second personally by then-President

Lyndon Johnson. Either rescue effort wouldhave prevented most of the US casualties.

� It is interesting to know that even then, the US

Commander-in-Chief valued Israel more thanthe lives of Americans in uniform. And isnt it

a pity that nothing has changed?



Other Americans have been targeted

by the Israelis.here are two:

Rachel Corrie

(murdered 2003)

Emily Henochowicz

(Shot in face, lost eye 2010)



But the killer is 9/11, orchestrated by

Israel

� We have all heard of 19 named Arabs in 4planes, bringing down the two tallestbuildings at the World Trade Center, striking

the Pentagon, and putting one plane into aPennsylvania field.

� We have not heard the rest of the story. Itbegins with WTC7,and creates an evidentiarytrail leading directly to Israel and its cohorts inthe US.



WTC7 so much more

than the proverbial

smoking gun

The 47-story WTC7 collapsed straight

down into its own footprint the

evening of 9/11, even though it was

not hit by a plane. This map depicts

the layout of the World Trade Center,

and the path of debris from the

impacting aircraft.

Note that smaller buildings closer to

the Twin Towers did not collapse in

that manner, even though at least one

was hit by debris from a plane and

others by debris from WTC1 & WTC2.

A striking video involves an interviewon Dutch TV with a Dutch demolitions

expert named Danny Jowenko. It

should be seen in its entirety:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2

oZpXVOvdE

Some key images follow:



Images of WTC7



A Dutch demolitions expert

summarizes what happened to WTC7



The Implications of WTC7

� First, the controlled demolition of WTC7 means if one building atthe WTC was wired for a controlled demolition, then all three were.

� Second, the impacting civilian airliners were intended to provide agruesome and shocking distraction that would facilitate the actualdestruction of the buildings by other means.

� Third, any successful operation of this type requires expertise,access to the target(s), and effective local support to facilitate post-attack escape & evasion.

� Fourth, neither the 19 named Arabs nor any of their possiblesupporters in the US or elsewhere had the expertise, access andlocal support needed to do that.

� Fifth, only Israel had the required expertise, access and localsupport inside and outside of the US Government and a positiveincentive to bring down those buildings, which was to enrage theAmerican public and bring the US into war against Israels enemies.



So much links Israel to 9/11 Only

a public confession is missing, e.g.

� Many key Bush Administration officials came

from PNAC(Project for a New AmericanCentury). All were Zionists (Israeli partisans).

They wrote about the need for a catalytic

event to mobilize the American people.

� Eight months after coming into office, they got

their catalytic event on 9/11, followed by the

wars their agenda required.



� The company providing 24/7 electronic & personal

security to the WTC, Kroll Associates, was owned &

operated by Zionists, as was the WTC itself as of July2001.

� The owners and their immediate relatives seem to

have been uncharacteristically absent on the

morning of 9/11. Hundreds of American Jews died atthe WTC & the Pentagon, but as best as can be

determined, only 3 Israelis out of some 4,000

normally there, plus 2 more on the planes.

� The senior fatality among WTC personnel was a

retired Irish-American FBI agent in his first days on

his job as Director of Security.



� A private Israeli-owned security company

called ICTS, registered in the Netherlands,

provided security services (sometimes

through a wholly owned subsidiary) to all

three airports from which the four hijackedplanes departed.

� ICTS also provided security at the airports in

Paris & Amsterdam, from which the so-calledshoe & underwear bombers respectively

departed.



� Bergen, NJ residents saw five people on a white van

filming the attacks and visibly celebrating. They had

set up their cameras before the first plane hit.

Police arrested them. All were Israelis. Bomb-sniffing

dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives,

although officers were unable to find anything. The

FBI seized the van for further testing.

�

All 5 were later released at the instigation of Israeli &American Jewish leaders, some in the US

Government. Details are still classified.



� A second van was stopped on the approaches to the

George Washington Bridge. As CBSs Dan Rather said

in his live report:

± "Two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of

explosives were discovered around the George

Washington Bridge. That bridge links New York to New

Jersey over the Hudson River. Whether the discovery of those explosives had anything to do with other events

today is unclear, but the FBI, has two suspects in hand, said

the truckload of explosives, enough explosives were in the

truck to do great damage to the George WashingtonBridge...

Those suspects and the incident then seem to have

disappeared from the record.



� NORAD (North American Air Defense

command) and its fighters were conspicuouslytardy. They should have intercepted the 4

aircraft within minutes but did not do so, due

to a linked series of failures to (1) get timely

FAA reports of the deviating aircraft, (2)

scramble fighters from the closest bases, (3)

intercept at maximum speed, and (4) redeploy

already airborne fighters to do the intercepts.� Several PNAC alums and their counterparts

were in positions to affect that outcome.



And as for the 9/11 Commission.

� A fatally flawed commission, not least because of its

pro-Israel staffing.

� Many implausible details were accepted or allowedto stand without comment, such as the delivery by a

well-dressed man of an intact passport to a detective

at the base of the Twin Towers a passport used to

identify one of the named hijackers, that somehowsurvived the planes impact, the ensuing explosion

and fire, and an 800-foot fall unaffected by wind.



� The 9/11 Commissions Executive Director

Philip D. Zelikow evidently ensured that

nothing deflecting attention from the 19

named Arabs, or toward Israel, would make

the final report, whose reading defies belief.� He also told an audience at the University of

Virginia on September 10, 2002 that the real

reason for his urging war with Iraq regardlessof 9/11 was the threat against Israel. His

concerns and loyalties are at least consistent.



So just what is the US supporting?

� History, policy, and governmental actions tell

only part of the story, of course.

� The attitudes and values prevalent in Israel are

also important, and almost unknown in the

US.

� Here are some of both that speak volumes.



Attack on Gaza: Israels Way of War

� The Israeli assault on Gaza in December 2008

January 2009 is a classic case in ruthlessness

applied to a densely populated urban area. In

the operation, some 1,400 Palestinians were

killed nearly a third of whom were women

and children who had no conceivable military

role and approximately 5,400 more werewounded.



Israel denied any excesses or

significant casualties among

noncombatants. The

evidence says otherwise.

Differing estimates are presented here

from: (1) BTselem, an Israeli Human

Rights organization; (2) its Palestinian

counterpart; and (3) the official Israeli

military estimate.

You will note that the Palestinian

organization has a lower figure of combatants killed than the other two,

but is still very close to that of

BTselem. Both consider police officers

to be different from combatants, while

the Israeli military makes no such

distinction.

Also the two Human Rights groups

have nearly identical counts of women

and children killed, while the Israeli

military minimizes those losses,

perhaps considering families of dead

police officers to be militants, too.

BTselem Palestinian

Centre

Israeli

Military

Palestinian

TOTAL

1385 1417 1166

Combatants 330/375 236 709

Non-

Combatants

762 926 295

Women 107 116 49

Children/

Minors

318 313 89

Police

Officers

248 255 n/a



The first Israeli attacks

Israel opened its attack on Gaza with

simultaneous strikes on numerous

Palestinian police stations, including

the graduating class of a Palestinian

police academy. Nearly a third of the

so-called militants killed were police

officers and young cadets.

I was reminded of my own graduation

from Marine boot camp, standing

there in my new uniform with my

family and friends across the parade

ground. It was a time of celebration.

But in Gaza, the Israeli strike force mostly American-made, with American

munitions came, and left this

carnage. Had I survived something like

this at my Marine Corps graduation, I

would want the perpetrators (to quote

Rahm Emanuel) d ead, d ead, d ead .



Then there were militants who disguised themselves

as children....the one on the right masquerading as a

four year old girl was especially devious



.compounded by the widespread use by Israel of white phosphorus and

cluster bombs (both provided by the US) in a densely populated urban area,

the former a war crime and therefore its Israeli perpetrators war criminals.

The image on the left is a UN school under attack; the other is a womanwhose husband & baby daughter were killed by the white phosphorus shells

that burned her. A Jerusalem Tribunal seems to be in order.



And we wonder why they,

and so many others, hate

the US

Every international tribunal and

agency that investigates Israel &

Palestine, including one headed by a

Jewish judge from South Africa, has

strongly condemned Israel for this

onslaught, among many others.

Joining the condemnation are manytraditional US allies. This, too , few

Americans understand.

But the US Government continues to

exercise its veto in the UN Security

Council to protect Israel from any

international sanctions. On February18, 2011, the US used its veto against

all 14 other members. This happens

often. In recent years, the US has used

its veto power more than the other 4

permanent members combined

almost always on behalf of Israel.



An article of faith

A key issue is the extent to which an

orthodox or ultra-orthodox version of

Judaism permeates an otherwise

largely secular Israeli society.

The former Israel Defense Forces' chief

rabbi, Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki, told

students in a pre-army yeshivaprogram in 2009 that soldiers who

"show mercy" toward the enemy in

wartime will be "damned".

His views were controversial, but he

was NOT repudiated by the Israeli

government, and he completed his full4-year term.

His replacement is somewhat less

extreme, but Rontzkis views are still

popular in Israel, especially with

Jewish settlers and the ultra-orthodox.



So this is faith? (An Israeli

girl inscribes her own

message of hate)

One of the most extreme examples to

emerge is a controversial book called

The Ki ngs T orah, written by two

settler rabbis. One chilling edict is that:

The pr ohi bi t i on ' Thou Shal t Not

Mur d er ' appl i es only " t o a Jew w ho

k i lls a Jew ," wr i te Rabbi s Yi tzhak Shapi ra and Y osef E l i tzur of t he W est

Bank sett l ement of Yi tzhar. Non-Jew s

are " uncompassi onate by nat ure" and

attack s on t hem " curb t hei r ev i l

i ncl i nat i on," w hi l e babi es and chi l d ren

of Israel ' s enemi es may be k i ll ed si nce

"i t i s cl ear t hat t hey w i ll gr ow t o harm

us."

Many in Israel condemned it. Many

also supported it. Most Americans

heard nothing about it. Guess why..



Then there is the Wall.

One of the great ironies is that two

decades after the Berlin Wall fell, Israel

has been constructing an Apartheid

Wall around and within occupied

Palestine, to protect Jewish settlers

and contain Palestinian resistance.

It has been noted that The most obv i ous hi st or i cal parall el t o t he

barr i er i s t he Ber l i n W all , w hi ch was 96

mi l es long. Israel ' s barr i er , st i ll und er

constr uct i on, i s ex pected t o reach at

l east 403 mi l es i n l engt h.The average

hei ght of t he Ber l i n W all was 11.8

feet .compared w i t h t he max i mum

current hei ght of Israel ' s W all -- 25 feet . f our t i mes as long and i n pl aces

tw i ce as hi gh as t he Ber l i n W all .

For the US, what was bad in Europe is

fine in Palestine, if Israel wants it.



....And the Jewish Settlers

There are perhaps a half-million Jewish

settlers, many from the US & Russia, in

Palestine. Not all are religious fanatics,

racist or violent. But the most extreme

ultra-orthodox beliefs, blatant racism

and an affinity for violence have fertile

ground in the settlements, all of them

on P a

lestini a

n l a

nds illega

lly , except,of course, to Israel and the US

Government.

Their influence in Israel is significant

and rising, the tip of an Israeli society

that is far more racist, militarist and

intolerant than South Africa during

apart hei d a point many black SouthAfricans have made repeatedly, but

which somehow is never considered

newsworthy by the mainstream

media (MSM) in the US.



And as if that were not

enough, here is the Israel

we support and enable

Israeli expansion of settlements

continues in East Jerusalem and the

West Bank. Their usual practice is for

armed police to enter a Palestinian

area at night and evict the residents,

then bring in Jewish settlers and

protect them.

This is what happened to the woman

in the picture and her family, losing a

home of nearly a half-century. She and

friends returned the next day to try to

salvage something from the ruin of

their life. This is what she met; the

picture was taken by a friend.

Lovely, right? This is what the US

protects with its pledges of eternal

support for Israel.The face of an

Israel it dares not let Americans see.



So why do most Americans know

nothing about these things?

� Accurate portrayals and graphics that leave no doubt

about what Israel has done, to the US and to others,

are rarely seen in the US.� The US Government generally, like the 9/11

Commission itself, studiously avoided any evidence

pointing to Israeli involvement.

� Few in Washington, D.C. any branch, either party orindependents, elected or appointed -- dare stand up

& criticize Israel for anything.



And just WHO is in charge

here?

Few Americans therefore even suspect

what much of the world knows: Israel,

through the ownership of the

mainstream media (MSM) and the

leverage exercised by a hydra-headed

pro-Israel lobby, effectively controls

the US Government, especially a

Congress that has long been

considered Israeli controlled

territory.

This is particularly true of candidates

for the Presidency. No one today can

be a serious contender for President

from either major party without what

have become obligatory pledges of

fealty to Israel and laudatory

appearances before major Jewishaudiences.

But I remember when that was not so,

and when our President was expected

to serve US & not Israeli interests.



The same holds for the

Administration, no matter

which party is in power

Almost all of the key US officials

dealing with the Middle East were and

are Jewish, many with dual citizenship.

(The neo-conservatives began as

Jewish Democrats dissatisfied with

President Carter, but now include

some who are not Jewish.) Those who

are not are strongly pro-Israel, a virtualcondition of their appointment,

confirmation and support by a

Congress whose members compete for

Israeli approval or keep silent.

Ha aretz, an Israeli newspaper,

remarked in late 2009 that Every

appointee to the Americangovernment must endure a thorough

background check by the American

Jewish community. No surprise to

Israelis, nor to anyone in the US policy

community, but a great surprise to

most Americans if they ever heard or

read about it.



� Anyone in the US pointing this out, or even

criticizing Israel in any way, is immediately

assailed as an anti-Semite or (if Jewish) a self-

hating Jew, no matter how ridiculous the

charges might be in reality.

� This is not surprising. Israels politicians andsupporters have no choice. Like lawyers who

find themselves defending a hopelessly guilty

client with both law and evidence againstthem, they pound the table and hurl vile

accusations, hoping to quiet the accusers.



� But it is important to understand that the

current concept of anti-Semitism has nothingto do with bigotry towards Jews or Judaism.

� Indeed, the entire debate over Israel is not

one of Jew versus anti-Semite as Israels

supporters would have everyone else believe.

It is one of Zionists (supporters of Israel, not

all of them Jewish) versus Israels critics, a

growing number of whom are themselvesJewish, including some Israelis.



�

What anti-Semitism means now is any criticism of Israel, or its foreign or domestic policies and actions,

or its treatment of Palestinians, or of any individual

in the US or elsewhere who supports Israel.

� The new charge of anti-Semitism is thereforeintended to shield Israel in the face of activities that,

to Israel & its supporters, are existential threats to

delegitimize it, and not an elementary quest for

justice and peace, which to most Israelis means onlytheir hegemony.



But what is this about Zionist control

of the US mainstream media (MSM)?� Raising the subject of Zionist (pro-Israel, most but not all Jewish) control of

the media truly excites Israels supporters, not because it is anti-Semitic

but because it is (at least to them) an unspeakable truth.

� Information is power, and the overwhelmingly Zionist-owned MSM makes

sure that Americans see, hear and read what Israel wants them to do.

� This, plus the enormous financial leverage provided by a brigade of Jewish

political action committees (PACs) in the US, gives them effective controlof both public opinion and the US Government.





.and media conglomerates owned or

led by Zionists in 2011 control:

� All of the major networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC).

� All of the major national newspapers (New York Times, Wall

Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today).

�

All three weekly news magazines (Time, Newsweek, US News& World Report).

� All major political journals (Nation, National Review, New

Republic, Weekly Standard).

�

Most of the major film studios in Hollywood & New York City.� Most of the major publishing houses.

� Many ISPs (internet service providers).



� The silence of the media on WTC7 and so many of

the anomalies associated with 9/11 is deafening. The

natural tendency of the media is to investigate any

alleged governmental misdeeds with relish, seeing

therein prestige and profits.� That the media did NOT do that with 9/11, and has

generally either ignored or disparaged other efforts

to do so, is because its ownership and management

knew, suspected or feared that any evidentiary trailwould lead directly or indirectly to Israel and its US

support base.



And lobbies, lobbies everywhere.

� Israel has so many PACs and supportinggroups that it has a Conference of Presidents

of Major Jewish Organizations to coordinate

the activities of its current list of 51 members.� AIPAC (the American-Israel Public Affairs

Committee) which focuses on the US

Government (especially the Congress), is just

one of those 51 members, although arguably

the most potent because of its focus on

Washington.



� The Israeli Government sponsored ICIC

Hasbara (public diplomacy) offers a wide

range of services.

� The Hasbara Fellowships program extends this

to campuses.

� StandWithUs continues this, with a strong

pro-settler spin.

� The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) assails any

effort to hold Israel accountable for its actions,seeing anti-Semites (their own witches,

perhaps?) everywhere.



� Campus Watch

� Jihad Watch

� UN Watch

� Plus a host of funded policy <sic.> and

research <sic.> centers, often at otherwise

legitimate Institutes and study centers, in

Washington and elsewhere, catering to both

liberals and conservatives of any and allpolitical persuasions



Epilogue: Costs & Consequences



The price the US pays..

For the joy and satisfaction of

providing unlimited and unquestioning

support of Israel, we have had a

national tragedy (9/11); have waged

two needless wars (Afghanistan &

Iraq); and are being goaded into a

third equally needless war against Iran

(with Syria to follow) by the same

people who brought us the others.

As of 2/2011, these wars have cost the

US some $1.2 trillion, exclusive of the

losses at the WTC and the assistance

we have provided Israel. Our casualties

to date are approximately 67,000

killed and wounded. Both figures willrise sharply following an attack on

Iran.

And there is the erosion of our

freedom under the misbegotten

Patriot Act and its offspring.



And what we have done to others

� Our price does not include all of the death &

suffering & destruction we have caused at Israels

instigation.� We have shattered two countries already, and aside

from the internal damage to them, there are literally

millions of dead, wounded & dispossessed refugees

in Afghanistan & Iraq, more of them in Pakistan, and

of cour se the long-suffering Palestinians.



Where we go.

� Depends on what kind of a legacy we wish to

leave to our grandchildren and to posterity:

± The US can be a protector, enabler and ally of first

and last resort to an Israel few would support if they truly knew what is was and did, spending our

lives and treasure in support of its ambitions; or

± The American people can realize that they have

been misled & betrayed from within and without,take back their government, and treat Israel as

the rogue it is a criminal state we have fostered.



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