A True American Patriot Advocates Ending U.S. Ties to Israel

'It's Time To Get Tough
With Israel' - US
Army Brig General
By James J. David Brigadier General, US Army (Ret)
12-24-2


Is there any criminal act that Israel can do without being protected from criticism from the
United States? If there is I haven't seen it. And I haven't seen it from the Bush Administration
or from the Clinton Administration or from any administration before them. But when you
consider the influence of Israel's lobby and its political action committees and the more than
$41 million they've given to Congress and the White House, is it any wonder Israel is shielded
from any shame?
For more than 54 years the Israelis have committed acts that no other nation would dare get
away with. But even here in America, where it is not yet illegal to publicly ask the wrong
questions, any public figure that does so is subjected to smears, intimidation, and the
attempted destruction of his career and reputation by Jewish organizations and by the very
cooperative news media.
A few examples of these criminal acts committed by Israel include the treacherous attack on
the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, killing 34 American sailors and wounding another 171.
There can now be no disputing that Israel knew its identity, and that the ship was in
international waters and clearly marked as a US Naval vessel. What was most treacherous
though was not the perfidy of Israel but that of President Johnson ordering the recall of the
sixth fleet when he found out that the attackers were not the Arabs but the Israelis. The
treasonous compliance continues today as corrupt politicians refuse to take any action
against Israel and continue their efforts in hushing-up the whole affair although there seems
to be a strong campaign by the Liberty survivors and other brave patriotic Americans in
exposing the Israelis of their criminal attack.
Another example of Israel's callous disregard for its supposed "ally" America was the
bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, which killed over 200 US
servicemen. According to former Israeli Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky, Israeli intelligence
knew of the plan by Arab terrorists to bomb the building in plenty of time to warn the innocent
men, but cynically refused to say anything.
In April 1996 the Israelis attacked an U.N. refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103
innocent men, women, and especially children. A U.N. investigation determined the attack
was intentional and stated that " while the possibility cannot be ruled out completely, the
pattern of impacts in the Qana area makes it unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations
compound was the result of technical and/or procedural errors." Shortly after this report the
U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israel for the attack and all nations with the exception
of the U.S. voted in favor of the resolution. In other words, intentionally slaughtering 103
civilians was not sufficient for the United States to condemn Israel. Yet, when Hezbollah
attacks Israel's illegal occupation of southern Lebanon and results in the deaths of two Israeli
soldiers the U.S. is first to condemn this legal resistance.
During the past 27 months the Palestinian resistance from the brutal and illegal Israeli
occupation has resulted in more than 2000 Palestinians and 670 Israelis killed. When Israelis
are killed or injured by Palestinian suicide bombers the White House wastes not a second to
harshly condemn these brutal acts, and it does so in an understandable manner. But when
Israelis drop a one-ton bomb in the center of a Gaza City apartment complex and kills 15
innocent Palestinians including 9 small children the U.S. issues a diplomatic statement
criticizing the attack only as using "excessive force." Other times when Palestinian children
are slaughtered for throwing stones at tanks the United States remains silent.
These are just a few of the criminal acts committed by the Israeli government and shielded
from criticism by U.S. politicians or even reported by the controlled media.
Although September 11th brought the fight on terrorism to the front burner, it seems that the
United States protects Israel from any criticism here too. An Israeli instant-messaging firm
Odigo confirmed that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the
World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks.
(Ha'aretz, December 20, 2002.) Is it possible that Israel had foreknowledge of the attack?
Could this be the answer why many Israeli employees at the World Trade Center never
showed up for work that tragic September morning? If this is the case then the fact that
Israel's government had prior knowledge of the pending attack and not warned the
Americans makes them as guilty as our enemy. Whatever the case, our government must
make a complete and thorough investigation without any threats from Jewish and Israeli
interest groups.
Shielding Israel from criticism and supporting the Jewish state no matter what crimes she
commits has caused the United States the loss of respect around the world. In addition, Israel
has cost American taxpayers more than $120 billion in the past 40 years. Our one-sided
unbalanced Middle East policy has created the hatred of millions and the primary cause of
terrorism that has landed on our own soil.
Criticizing our government's dangerous policies and its submissions to the Jewish lobby
doesn't make anyone less patriotic or any less of an American. George Washington said it
best when he stated that "passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of
evils...the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the
enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any
justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious,
corrupted or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own
country."
James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command
and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University,
Washington DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in
the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty
in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.



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