According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread
throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on
all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among
President Bush’s last words as he left office was the warning that
America would soon be struck again by Muslim terrorists.
If America were infected with terrorists, we would not need the
government to tell us. We would know it from events. As there are no
events, the US government substitutes warnings in order to keep alive
the fear that causes the public to accept pointless wars, the
infringement of civil liberty, national ID cards, and inconveniences
and harassments when they fly.
The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that
not a single neocon has been assassinated.
I do not approve of assassinations, and am ashamed of my country’s
government for engaging in political assassination. The US and Israel
have set a very bad example for al Qaeda to follow.
The US deals with al Qaeda and Taliban by assassinating their leaders,
and Israel deals with Hamas by assassinating its leaders. It is
reasonable to assume that al Qaeda would deal with the instigators and
leaders of America’s wars in the Middle East in the same way.
Today every al Qaeda member is aware of the complicity of
neoconservatives in the death and devastation inflicted on Muslims in
Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Gaza. Moreover, neocons are highly
visible and are soft targets compared to Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
Neocons have been identified in the media for years, and as everyone
knows, multiple listings of their names are available online.
Neocons do not have Secret Service protection. Dreadful to
contemplate, but it would be child’s play for al Qaeda to assassinate
any and every neocon. Yet, neocons move around freely, a good
indication that the US does not have a terrorist problem.
If, as neocons constantly allege, terrorists can smuggle nuclear
weapons or dirty bombs into the US with which to wreak havoc upon our
cities, terrorists can acquire weapons with which to assassinate any
neocon or former government official.
Yet, the neocons, who are the Americans most hated by Muslims, remain unscathed.
The “war on terror” is a hoax that fronts for American control of oil
pipelines, the profits of the military-security complex, the assault
on civil liberty by fomenters of a police state, and Israel’s
territorial expansion.
There were no al Qaeda in Iraq until the Americans brought them there
by invading and overthrowing Saddam Hussein, who kept al Qaeda out of
Iraq. The Taliban is not a terrorist organization, but a movement
attempting to unify Afghanistan under Muslim law. The only Americans
threatened by the Taliban are the Americans Bush sent to Afghanistan
to kill Taliban and to impose a puppet state on the Afghan people.
Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestine, or what
little remains of Palestine after Israel’s illegal annexations. Hamas
is a terrorist organization in the same sense that the Israeli
government and the US government are terrorist organizations. In an
effort to bring Hamas under Israeli hegemony, Israel employs terror
bombing and assassinations against Palestinians. Hamas replies to the
Israeli terror with homemade and ineffectual rockets.
Hezbollah represents the Shi’ites of southern Lebanon, another area in
the Middle East that Israel seeks for its territorial expansion.
The US brands Hamas and Hezbollah “terrorist organizations” for no
other reason than the US is on Israel’s side of the conflict. There is
no objective basis for the US Department of State’s “finding” that
Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations. It is merely a
propagandistic declaration.
Americans and Israelis do not call their bombings of civilians terror.
What Americans and Israelis call terror is the response of oppressed
people who are stateless because their countries are ruled by puppets
loyal to the oppressors. These people, dispossessed of their own
countries, have no State Departments, Defense Departments, seats in
the United Nations, or voices in the mainstream media. They can submit
to foreign hegemony or resist by the limited means available to them.
The fact that Israel and the United States carry on endless propaganda
to prevent this fundamental truth from being realized indicates that
it is Israel and the US that are in the wrong and the Palestinians,
Lebanese, Iraqis, and Afghans who are being wronged.
The retired American generals who serve as war propagandists for Fox
“News” are forever claiming that Iran arms the Iraqi and Afghan
insurgents and Hamas. But where are the arms? To deal with American
tanks, insurgents have to construct homemade explosive devices out of
artillery shells. After six years of conflict the insurgents still
have no weapon against the American helicopter gunships. Contrast this
“arming” with the weaponry the US supplied to the Afghans three
decades ago when they were fighting to drive out the Soviets.
The films of Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza show large numbers of
Gazans fleeing from Israeli bombs or digging out the dead and maimed,
and none of these people are armed. A person would think that by now
every Palestinian would be armed, every man, woman, and child. Yet,
all the films of the Israeli attack show an unarmed population. Hamas
has to construct homemade rockets that are little more than a sign of
defiance. If Hamas were armed by Iran, Israel’s assault on Gaza would
have cost Israel its helicopter gunships, its tanks, and hundreds of
lives of its soldiers.
Hamas is a small organization armed with small caliber rifles
incapable of penetrating body armor. Hamas is unable to stop small
bands of Israeli settlers from descending on West Bank Palestinian
villages, driving out the Palestinians, and appropriating their land.
The great mystery is: why after 60 years of oppression are the
Palestinians still an unarmed people? Clearly, the Muslim countries
are complicit with Israel and the US in keeping the Palestinians
unarmed.
The unsupported assertion that Iran supplies sophisticated arms to the
Palestinians is like the unsupported assertion that Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction. These assertions are propagandistic
justifications for killing Arab civilians and destroying civilian
infrastructure in order to secure US and Israeli hegemony in the
Middle East.