gelatik
04.05.02, 15:04
During the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon from 1978 to 2000, at
least 15,000 civilians died. An example of Israeli terror was its intentional
bombing of the UN center in Qana, Lebanon that occurred just five years ago.
The following article was not written by a Palestinian, Arab or even a Muslim,
but by Englishman Robert Fisk, one of the most respected British journalists
working in the Mideast. He writes for the London newspaper, The Independent. If
an American wants to understand the hatred that Israel is generating toward
America, dare to read this gruesome account and dare to take a close look at
the pictures showing the realities of Israeli terror.
Most Americans have read countless gory accounts Jewish Holocaust atrocities or
even stories about the Israeli victims of Palestinian suicide bombers. They
have seen dozens of the most gruesome movies or documentaries about Jewish
victims, but most Americans have never read even one account like the one
quoted here. You won’t read such accounts in American newspapers or news
magazines.
Qana, southern Lebanon - It was a massacre. Not since Sabra and Chatila had I
seen the innocent slaughtered like this. The Lebanese refugee women and
children and men lay in heaps, their hands or arms or legs missing, beheaded or
disemboweled. There were well over a hundred of them. A baby lay without a
head. The Israeli shells had scythed through them as they lay in the United
Nations shelter, believing that they were safe under the world's protection.
Like the Muslims of Srebrenica, the Muslims of Qana were wrong.
In front of a burning building of the UN's Fijian battalion headquarters, a
girl held a corpse in her arms, the body of a gray- haired man whose eyes were
staring at her, and she rocked the corpse back and forth in her arms, keening
and weeping and crying the same words over and over: "My father, my father." A
Fijian UN soldier stood amid a sea of bodies and, without saying a word, held
aloft the body of a headless child.
…When I walked towards them, I slipped on a human hand...
Israel's slaughter of civilians in this terrible 10-day offensive - 206 by last
night - has been so cavalier, so ferocious, that not a Lebanese will forgive
this massacre. There had been the ambulance attacked on Saturday, the sisters
killed in Yohmor the day before, the 2-year-old girl decapitated by an Israeli
missile four days ago. And earlier yesterday, the Israelis had slaughtered a
family of 12 - the youngest was a four- day-old baby - when Israeli helicopter
pilots fired missiles into their home.
Shortly afterwards, three Israeli jets dropped bombs only 250 meters from a UN
convoy on which I was traveling, blasting a house 30 feet into the air in front
of my eyes. Traveling back to Beirut to file my report on the Qana massacre to
the Independent last night, I found two Israeli gunboats firing at the civilian
cars on the river bridge north of Sidon…
A French UN trooper muttered oaths to himself as he opened a bag in which he
was dropping feet, fingers, pieces of people's arms…
We had suddenly become not UN troops and journalists but Westerners, Israel's
allies, an object of hatred and venom. One bearded man with fierce eyes stared
at us, his face dark with fury. "You are Americans", he screamed at
us. "Americans are dogs. You did this. Americans are dogs."
President Bill Clinton has allied himself with Israel in its war
against "terrorism" and the Lebanese, in their grief, had not forgotten this.
Israel's official expression of sorrow was rubbing salt in their wounds. "I
would like to be made into a bomb and blow myself up amid the Israelis", one
old man said…
If every American read the above article by Robert Fisk, it would help them to
understand why America is so hated and why we now face terrorist kamikazes. If
you would like to know the real motivations of terrorists like Osama bin Laden,
The Nation magazine, did an interview with him on September 21, 1998. It
describes his reaction to the Israeli Qana massacre.
When I last saw bin Laden, he was still obsessed with the Israeli massacre of
107 Lebanese refugees sheltering at the UN camp at Qana in April 1996. Israel
claimed it was a 'mistake,' the UN conceded otherwise and President Clinton
called it only a 'tragedy'--as if it was a natural disaster. It was, said bin
Laden, an act of 'international terrorism.' There must be justice, he said, and
trials for the Israeli perpetrators. Clinton used almost exactly the same words
about bin Laden and his supporters in August. But the deaf, as usual, were
talking to the deaf."
Most Americans will never see any such accounts like the one by Robert Fisk
about Qana. The Israelis tight grip on the American press and the American
government has successfully suppressed much of the ongoing story of Israeli
terrorism against Palestinians. I will now show that they have also been able
to cover up murderous Israeli acts of war and terrorism against the United
States of America
