Epilogue

Thanks to the power of the US-Jewish Lobby and the reach of its international affiliates, the US government secured the agreement of the world’s powers meeting in Rome on July 26, 2006 to give Israel’s ‘mad dogs’ free rein to continue their genocidal policies in Lebanon and Gaza, a vote hailed by the mouthpiece (Daily Alert July 27, 2006) of the Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations. Given the Lobby’s supremos efforts to stifle dissent from genocide special importance is the fact that the Rome vote took place less than 24 hours after Israel deliberately murdered (decapitated) four UN peace keepers through direct targeting of their camp and after having received over a dozen frantic phone calls from the beleaguered international peace keepers before, during and after the Israeli missile and tank shelling attack (BBC News July 25, 2006). Even the US toady, UN Secretary General Kofi Annam couldn’t accept the Israeli claims of error. His statement that the Israelis deliberately attacked the unarmed UN observers in their clearly marked outpost provoked fits of indignation in Israel and among Israel Firsters in the US. Needless to say, the US Jewish Lobby automatically backed Israel’s slaughter of the UN peacekeepers and published Israeli Ambassador to the US Dan Ayalon’s demand that Secretary General Annam “apologize” for his “baseless” charges. (Daily Alert July 26, 2006) In the meantime, the respectable press, led by the ultra-Zionist Washington Post continued to provide exclusive editorial and news space for the apologists of Israeli genocide in Lebanon. David Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey argued that the mass terror bombing of Lebanon (and by the same logic Gaza) are “within (Israel’s) right” and provide the most convoluted pseudo-legal arguments that would have made Goebbels blush. (Washington Post July 25, 2006) Needless to say, we are told that both authors served in the Reagan Justice Department, apparently cutting their teeth sanitizing the Central American killing fields.

Israel’s crimes and the impunity granted to it by the “Rome meeting” is seen as a license to commit every outrageous crime forbidden in the UN Charter under the rubric of “Crimes against Humanity.” The British Guardian reported on July 25, 2006, “The ambulance headlights were on, the blue light overhead was flashing and another light illuminated the Red Cross flag when the first Israeli missile hit, shearing off the right leg of the man on the stretcher. As he lay screaming beneath fire and smoke, patients and ambulance workers scrambled for safety, crawling over grass in the dark. Then another missile hit the second ambulance.” (Guardian July 25, 2006)

As the world’s attention turned to the genocide in Lebanon, the Israeli military machine continued to slaughter Palestinian children and civilians…(Reuters July 26, 2006) reported that 19 Palestinians, over half civilians, including 3 children under 4, were killed and 60 people wounded. The toll of Palestinian dead and wound in the Jewish state’s month-long assault rose to over a thousand.

The official Israeli peaceniks have joined the war party, as have most of their followers. A poll published by Israel’s Maariv daily newspaper states that 82% back the continued offensive and 95% say Israel’s action is justified. (BBC News July 27, 2006). Since Israel is generally considered a democracy limited to its Jewish citizens, we can safely state that the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews are willing accomplices to Israeli crimes against humanity. (Did Goldhagen ever find a consensus of 95% of Germans in favor of Nazi ethnic cleansing?) Likewise, in the United States and Europe, the great majority of Zionist organizations and their activists are extremely active in securing US support for Israeli genocide. The hidden horror and the voices of dissent of many US citizens are stifled by the overbearing dominance of the Jewish Lobby’s monopoly of the mass media. It is as if the Lobby-promoted invasion of Iraq was a dry run for US backing for Israeli invasions in the Middle East, aimed at provoking major wars with Iran and Syria. This is a prospect actively promoted by most Neo-conservative Jewish ideologues like William Kristol of the Daily Standard.

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