"An anti-Israel bias is not the same as anti-Semitism. To argue as much is to claim an altogether unique immunity for Israel, untouchable by the kind of criticism that is normally directed at the conduct of states" Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor to Carter, Kennedy and Johnson)
The escalating savagery against a captive Palestinian people by the Israeli military has to be stopped. Their Zionist government's attitude that its actions are above and beyond international law as framed in the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter or decisions by the ICJ ( the International Court of Justice,) is pure baloney. Like the pigs in George Orwell's allegory: ANIMAL FARM, Israel's Jews pretend they are: "More equal than the other animals".
Last month, an Israeli air strike in Gaza killed nine civilians including two children and two paramedics. Forty others were wounded. The day before, seven members of a family including a six-month infant, were killed while picnicking on the beach. The entire Palestinian population is living with the danger and noise of constant shelling by the Israeli army from the land and sea.

Thousands are suffering from life-threatening or disabling injuries. In what has become their SOP (standard operating procedure) the Israeli government initially denied their offshore military vessel had fired at that Palestinian family playing on the Gaza beach, until shell fragments picked from the sand with Israeli military markers were shown to the international press.

Washington's response to the recent visit by Israel's new Prime Minister was a disgusting example, of a Congress captured by Jewish money. As writer Carl Greeley points out ( Florida's

PRESS JOURNAL June 18th), "congressional candidates from 1978 to 2004 have received $42,365,496 from Jewish interests."

On May 24th, 2006, the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert addressed a joint meeting of the US Congress. It' was Olmert's first visit since his election in March of this year. On May 23rd, that day before Olmert' spoke, the House of Representatives under intense pressure from Israeli lobbies, overwhelmingly passed legislation far tougher on the Palestinian's Hamas Party than even Bush had proposed, It calls for the Palestinian Authority to be designated a "Terrorist Sanctuary," bans Visas for entry into the US from any member of the PA, cuts off direct and indirect US assistance to the PA, except for basic human health needs. On Friday, May 26th, after Olmert had left Washington the US House Appropriations Committee approved HR 2007 foreign aid bill, which included $2.46 billion for Israel. $2.34 billion of this amount will be military aid, and $120 million civilian aid. This little gift to our dangerous parasite, Israel' will support their savage campaign against the Palestinians. It was duly noted in the Muslim press around the world.

Our media's TV coverage of Ehud Olmert's address to Congress as played across Fox and other channels, was another disgusting reminder that Jewish money has made whores of our

Representatives, who rose to their feet again and again to applaud this Olmert, who, like his predecessor, Sharon, has expressed his intent to obliterate any chance for the Palestinians to enjoy a state of their own. As head of the Kadima Party, a recently- morphed version of Israel's Likud, Olmert has refused to negotiate with the Palestinians' duly-elected Hamas Party. While speaking in Israel on February 7th, three months before his Washington visit, Olmert, in his first public policy statement since replacing Sharon,

said he plans to annex the Jordan Valley and major Jewish settlement blocks into Israel while drawing new borders, carrying through his predecessor's vision of an emasculated Palestinian state on Israel's terms. If the Jewish state annexes the Jordan Valley, already dotted with settlements, it would leave a future Palestinian state on the West Bank, divided into bantustans, entirely surrounded by Israel without a direct link to neighboring countriesÉ Olmert also spoke of Israel having to maintain a "Jewish majority" in the state of Israel."

After his Washington visit, Olmert journeyed to London and met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. "Speaking publicly for the first time about the future of Jerusalem, Olmert told Jewish community leaders in London that he had no intention of dividing the capital or giving away sovereignty of the Temple Mount. Blair refrained from endorsing Olmert's plan for a unilateral withdrawal, calling instead for a "negotiated two-state solution," something he said the world agreed upon. Olmert said after talks with Blair that Israel is "prepared to pullout from most" of the West Bank and create a "contiguous" Palestinian state" (Aluf Benin,Haaretz the Assoc. Press, London).

Since 40% of Palestinian economy revolves around Jerusalem and is tourist-based, Olmert's E-1 plan effectively cuts the economic heart out of any Palestinian state, rendering it nothing more than a set of non-viable Indian reservations.

Olmert's sales pitch to both Washington and London, did not receive favorable reports in the international press. The International Jerusalem Post headline May 8th read: "US newspapers slam Olmert's plan "The New York Times on Thursday wrote, "It's long been clear that getting a workable, feasible Palestinian state out of two geographically separate masses of land in the desert will be an uphill battle. Now, because of two culprits and one enable, Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and President [George W.] Bush, that hill is becoming a mountain."

The Times wrote that Bush "should not punish the Palestinian people by endorsing any unilateral proposal - doing that would punish them for exercising their democratic right to vote." Andrea Godfrey-Goldstein, May 29th (The Electronic Media): wrote: "The Wall has been erected to create prime real estate and hasten expansion of the settlements (which are illegal under international law)É The Wall is a long-term political border, rather than the "temporary security installation."

Back on July 9, 2004 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or "World Court" had ruled that the monstrous wall that Zionists are constructing in occupied Palestine contravenes international law, must be dismantled, and compensation paid to the Palestinian property owners whose land was confiscated by the Jews to build it. The massive 130 mile barrier in the West Bank has cut off thousands of Palestinians from their farms, schools, relatives and their workplaces and caused a humanitarian crisis of major proportions. The "Apartheid Wall," planned to extend for a total of 460 miles, will imprison and segregate the Palestinians and confiscate additional land for use by foreign Jewish immigrants.

The ICJ based in The Hague, Netherlands, consists of 15 judges from different nations, selected by the UN General Assembly to serve for nine years. The July 2004 ruling passed with a vote of 14 to 1. The "No" vote was cast by the judge from the USA." [Ernesto Cienfuegos La Voz de Aztlan].

Of interest to Americans is that while Olmert has been peddling the Zionist version of Palestinian Apartheid to Washington and London, another people have been celebrating the 30th anniversary of victory over their own Apartheid. On Friday, June 16th, blacks worldwide celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the revolt of Soweto's black students, a protest that heralded the end of apartheid in South Africa. The morning of June 16, 1976 over fifteen thousand school children marched down the road carrying large placards.

The protestor's planned a peaceful march, but the Soweto police started firing into the crowd and children began falling to the cement, covered with blood. As protestors fled, some children were trampled to death. To protect themselves, they began throwing sticks, rocks, whatever they could pick up. The casualty count was 172 blacks killed, and 439 blacks injured by the police. This story made headlines around the world fueling rebellions in other parts of South Africa. Soon after, Nelson Mandela (head of ANC) got involved, and the ANC, began using violence to get his point of black equality across, adopted the idea of "Terrorism." Like the three segregated Palestinian bantustans behind Israeli walls, planned by Olmert, under South Africa's Apartheid, nine Bantu groups were assigned their own bantustans, where movement outside was strictly regulated. Apartheid existed in South Africa for forty years until Mandela became president in 1994. The first UN arms embargo on South Africa was passed in 1963, but it was not until 1977 that it became mandatory. In response to the UN action, the US government enacted laws that had little effect until the legal actions were backed by public outcry. With product boycotts, corporations "saw the light" and began to change.

Employing those political tools which ended South Africa's apartheid, the Presbyterian Churches along with the Episcopalians and other socially responsible organizations are struggling to divest from both Israeli owned businesses, and US firms like that contribute to Israel's house demolitions such as Caterpillar Tractor.

Meanwhile Israel keeps up its public relations campaign. In 2005 alone, more than 100 members of Congress visited Israel, some multiple times. Israel's hold on Washington goes back many

years. Examination of Nixon's tapes revealed a conversation with Rev Billy Graham in which Graham told Nixon that when he was in office he had "to break the Jewish stranglehold on the media." "Do you really think that? Tricky Dick replied. "Yes," Graham replied. "So do I," Nixon replied, but you can't talk about it."

Our Europeans understand Washington's Jewish problem better than many Americans. Writing in Le Monde Diplomatique,

(June 9th, ) Anatol Lieven's "NEED FOR A NEW FORCE IN US POLITICS" says: "Both parties are heavily influenced by the pro-Israel lobby, and both have shown their unwillingness to take determined action to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Far from encouraging the Bush administration to try harder for peace, leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, have tried to outflank Bush by being even more unconditionally pro-Israeli. The "realist" camp in the US contains many distinguished figures... such as Brent Scowcroft, Gary Hart and Zbigniew Brzezinski . But neither party has a political faction powerful enough to push this realism, leading many to see the need for a new force in US politics.

"Anyone who crosses 'the Lobby,' as their paper puts it, risks incurring the wrath of 'the Great Silencer.' This means, in plain terms, that anyone who criticizes Israel, or, more significantly, notices the Lobby's decisive influence over US policymakers, risks their career, whether it be in politics, the media, or academia." Justin Raimondo, 19 June 2006

Worldwide support helped destroy the Afrikaner's Apartheid. It will require even greater cooperation to break Israel's colonial stranglehold on Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian territories.