[img]583|left|||no_popup[/img]I’m about to do something I generally avoid – discuss the collective nature of white folks. I don’t want to add to the disinformation disseminated by Black racists that something is more intrinsically evil in white people than other racial groups.
As humans, just as intellect is distributed equally across our species, so is malevolence. We all have a tendency to be self-serving and corrupt, given a chance. The only difference with white people is they have the power, thus opportunity, to reflect that side of their nature. If you challenge me, I invite you to witness the Black-on-Black mayhem on the continent of Africa, or take the police out of the Black communities of America and see the level of enlightenment that prevails. Survival of the fittest within one week.
The common trait shared by all who tend to be inhumane and corrupt is not race, creed or color, but rather, opportunity and greed. That is the source of the turmoil in the Middle East – the power, opportunity and greed of Israel and the American military/industrial complex.
Whenever anyone seeks to examine this issue, they’re met with hysterical charges of being unpatriotic, anti-Semitic or both. While everyone is aware of the problem, we tend to turn a blind eye.
This issue desperately needs to be addressed. Because of our failure to do so, American troops are dying, the United States treasury is being looted, and the entire world is being placed at risk. Israel’s behavior needs to be scrutinized, just like any other country in the world.
Truth is not as complicated or elusive as we try to make it seem in this country. Since truth doesn’t lend itself to being Black, white, Jew or gentile, when it comes up less than a perfect fit to our carefully constructed comfort zone, we tend to distort and convolute it into a more comfortable fit. In the process, we do ourselves an injustice. No matter how you distort it, truth will prevail. That is the source of most problems in the world. All seek to distort the truth in a way most palatable to our special interest. This is magnified by our writers, political pundits and politicians who have a tendency to seek applause and self-interest over truth. If we are indeed dependent on the truth to set us free, let us not doom ourselves to a life of death, carnage, and intellectual bondage by living a lie.
Our poor and middle-class young people are being wooed by slick government commercials to become cannon fodder in a war for profit. Take it from an old Marine, it’s a lie. They’re only showing you the benefits and upside of military life, with you standing proud and strong in your spotless uniform at home while girls look at you with admiring eyes. They’re not showing you the real picture, with you lying in 120- degree heat in agony, thousands of miles from home bleeding to death from the stub that use to be your leg, or looking at your foot in a bloody boot 25 yards away from where the rest of you lie dying. They’re being criminally remiss in not showing you that side of military life.
Don’t get the impression I’m a pacifist or hate the military. There is a time when war is justified —when you’re prepared to see your own loved ones become the first casualty. No one in our government has reached that point.
Where is Liz Cheney or the Bush girls? They can drive a truck. Not on your life. Be all you can, but don’t be a fool. You won’t be fighting for your country; you’ll be fighting for Exxon and Halliburton’s collusion with Israel to rob the people of the Middle East and gouge the American taxpayer.
The dispute over Israel is nothing less than the “Manifest Destiny” being reenacted. When the Europeans came to America and began to strip the indigenous people of their land, they justified their unholy atrocities by declaring that it was God’s will that they settle and bring his word to this “uncivilized land”– it was their manifest destiny. In true civilized, Christian fashion, they began to spread the Holy word of God through the hot muzzle of a Gatlin gun, a brutally unconscionable, gruesome event. What could these good Christians do? It was God’s will they slaughter those “Godless savages.” That is the same scenario in the Middle East today. It began with the “creation” of the state of Israel in 1948, and the campaign continues as I speak – but this time, it’s called Zionism.
In 1882, while Jews were being massacred throughout Russia, Leo Pinsker, the founder of the Zionist movement, published a small booklet entitled “Auto-emancipation”. It pointed out that Jews would never find equality in Russia, so it was necessary for world Jewry to establish their own homeland. At first he didn’t care where it was located. Zaire, Africa was even considered. Later Pinsker recognized that in order to get Jews to migrate in numbers large enough to establish a homeland, he needed a location that would inspired the Jewish soul, and none in the world would suit that purpose like Palestine, the land of Zion – “the land that God had promised the Jews.” The fact that there were indigenous people already living in Palestine never even crossed his mind.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines Zionism as “An organized movement of world Jewry that arose in Europe in the late 19th century with the aim of reconstituting a Jewish state in Palestine. Modern Zionism is concerned with the development and support of the state of Israel.”
By definition and design, Zionism is a doctrine dedicated to the taking of Palestine – and on May 14, 1948, European Jews did just that. Between 1944 and 1948, due to their experience with the Nazis, Eastern European Jews wanted to get off the European continent by any means necessary, so various Zionist organizations created the Bariha (escape) organization that helped close to 200,000 Jews to leave Europe and settle in Palestine. Prior to that time, in July 1922, the League of Nations (the progenitor of the United Nations) gave Great Britain a mandate to protect the people of Palestine. But on Nov. 29, 1947 when the U. N. General Assembly passed a resolution to partition off Palestine between the Arabs and Jews, Great Britain announced that it was terminating its mandate. The end of the British Mandate was to go into effect on May 15, 1948, but on May 14, 1948 the Zionists declared the creation of Israel, a Jewish state.
For the new State of Israel to have any legitimacy it had to be recognized by the United States. The U.S. State Dept. was less than enthusiastic about creating a Jewish state in Palestine, but shortly after President Truman took office, European Zionist Chaim Weizmann convinced the President it was only just that the survivors of the Holocaust be given their own homeland. Truman agreed, and recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, and all hell has been breaking loose every since.
The Israeli-American alliance was a match made in hell from the outset – they didn’t even trust each other. One of the largest units in the CIA is dedicated to the prevention of Israeli spying on the United States, and one of the biggest spy scandals in U.S. history involved an Israeli spy named Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish descent, born in Galveston, Texas. Israel receives more U.S. foreign aid than any other country in the world. We have made them one of the most formidable military forces in the world. The reason?–oil.
Israel stands as an extension of the United States in the Middle East, within easy striking distance of Middle Eastern oil fields. What we have in the Middle East is an unholy quid pro quo. The United States will help the Israelis steal Arab land, and the Israelis will help the United States steal the oil beneath the land.
The Israeli claim that their slaughter of the Arab people is an attempt to defend themselves is a farce. Granted, when someone invades your home you do have a right to retaliate against them, but Europeans have about as much right to call Israel their home as I’d have of tearing off a part of China because I converted to Buddhism.
Far be it from me to say who is a Jew and who is not. We can agree European Jews are not the same Jews spoken of in the Bible. You are not to even whisper such sentiments here in America. To say that European Jews don’t belong in Israel, or to speak out on any atrocity that the State of Israel might commit, is considered anti-Semitic in this country. Even that is a farce. There is a big difference between being anti- Semitic and anti-Zionist. To be anti-Semitic is to be against a people, while being anti-Zionist is to be against a philosophy. All Jews are not Zionists. How can you be anti-Semitic towards Europeans? They aren’t even Semites.
The situation above describes exactly why we’re in Iraq and Afghanistan today. All of the killing in the Middle East is about European hubris, injustice and greed. The justification for Europeans being in the Middle East at all is based on a lie – and that includes Europeans by way of America.
How can you go into your neighbor’s home and kill his family, then call him the aggressor? Now they are talking about invading Iran. It is about racism and greed. As bad as the Germans and Russians treated the Jews over the years, you would think the Jews would have been given part of one of those countries. If they’d done that, European Jews wouldn’t have even had to leave home. White folks don’t play that – no matter how much they hate each other.
Eric L. Wattree is a writer, poet and musician, born in Los Angeles. A columnist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Black Star News, a staff writer for Veterans Today, he is a contributing writer to Your Black World, the Huffington Post, ePluribus Media and other online sites and publications. He also is the author of “A Message From the Hood.”
Mr. Wattree may be contacted at wattree.blogspot.com or Ewattree@Gmail.com
Religious bigotry: It’s not that I hate everyone who doesn’t look, think, and act like me – it’s just that God does.
