The Shame of Being an American

By Paul Craig Roberts

07/22/06  -- -- Gentle reader, do you know that the Zionist entity is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. the Zionist entity 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 the Zionist entity has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.

Do you know that one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by the Zionist entity'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 Zionist air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost always) the Zionist entity misses Hezbollah targets and hits civilian ones, one might think that Zionist 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 Zionist slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Bush has told the UN "NO." Bush has told the European Union "NO." Bush has told the pro-American Lebanese prime minister "NO." Twice. Bush is very proud of his firmness. He is enjoying the Zionist entity's rampage and wishes he could do the same thing in Iraq.

Does it make you a Proud American that "your" president gave the Zionist entity the green light to drop bombs on convoys of villagers fleeing from Zionist 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 Zionist puppet?

On July 20, "your" House of Representatives voted 410-8 in favor of the Zionist entity'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 the Zionists only. They are Palestinians whose ancient towns have been invaded by militant Zionist "settlers" under the protection of the Zionist 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 Zionist "settlers."

The Palestinians who confront the Zionist 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 Zionist entity. This means, of course, that Hamas is evil, anti-Semitic, un-American and terrorist. The US and the Zionist entity responded by cutting off all funds to the new government. Democracy is permitted only if it produces the results Bush and the Zionist entity want.

The Zionists never practice terror. Only those who are in the Zionist entity's way are terrorists.

Another enemy of the Jewish state is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a militia of Shi'ite Muslims created in 1982 when the Zionist entity first invaded Lebanon. During this invasion the great moral Jewish state arranged for the murder of refugees in refugee camps. The result of the Zionist entity's atrocities was Hezbollah, which fought the Zionist Army, defeated it, and drove it out of Lebanon. Today Hezbollah 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 the Zionist entity. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates have sided with the Zionist entity 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 the Zionist entity or for America.

On July 20 when "your" House of Representatives, following "your" US Senate, passed the resolution in support of the Zionist entity'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 the Zionist entity's war on terrorism and understand that we must stand by our closest ally in this time of crisis."

The truth is that the Zionist entity created the crisis by invading a country with a pro-American government. The truth is that the American people do not support the Zionist entity's war crimes, as the CNN quick poll results make clear and as was made clear by callers into C-Span.

Despite the Zionist spin on news provided by US "reporting," a majority of Americans do not approve of Zionist atrocities against Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah is located in southern Lebanon. If the Zionist entity is targeting Hezbollah, why are Zionist 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 Zionist war crimes and condemn those who resist the Zionist aggression, the Senate and House confirm Osama bin Laden's propaganda that America stands with the Zionist entity against the Arab and Muslim world.

Indeed, the Zionist entity, 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 the Zionist entity, whose population is declining, as the smart ones have seen the writing on the wall and have been leaving. the Zionist entity is surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims who are being turned into enemies of the Zionist entity by the Zionist 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 the Zionist entity realize that the Zionist entity 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, the Zionist entity's puppet, just as Osama bin Laden says, and as a majority of Muslims believe.

With hope and diplomacy dead, henceforth America and the Zionist entity have only tooth and claw. The vaunted Zionist 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 Shi'ite majority.

What will the US and its puppet master do? Both are too full of hubris and paranoia to admit their terrible mistakes. the Zionist entity 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 the Zionist entity will use nuclear weapons to intimidate Muslims into acquiescence to the Zionist entity'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 the Zionist entity's Christian evangelical supporters. Where does the Lord Jesus say, "go forth and murder your neighbors so that you may steal their lands"?

The complicity of the American public in these heinous crimes will damn America for all time in history.

Dr. Roberts [send him mail] is Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.