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The
Hate Mongers Among Us (Part One): An Invalid War, Other
Telling Signs, Timing Is Everything
05 September 2010By Jeff Gates
September 15, 2010 "Information
Clearing House" -- Hate is a harsh word. As the
counterpoint to love, hate reigns supreme among those
emotions that the faith traditions seek to expunge
from the human heart.
Hate we're told is the face of evil seen in plumes of
smoke and ash on 911. Yet hate also serves a purpose
for those adept at catalyzing conflicts.
In the aftermath of that horrific event, hate we're
assured is a desired emotional state. Yet induced hate
led us into two unwinnable wars. Hate may yet take us
into
Iran. Or
Pakistan.
That hate is also bankrupting us both financially and
psychologically.
This 4-part series identifies those who induce us to
hate—and describes how.
As the "how" of hate mongering becomes transparent,
its common source will become apparent. With
transparency comes accountability. That's when you can
watch for hate to emerge yet again to shield those who
hide behind the toxic charge of "anti-Semitism."
With the shared knowledge of how hate is evoked and
sustained, those provoked to hate can say with
confidence "Never Again" to those complicit in
inducing this evil.
Timing is Everything
Hate can be personal or geopolitical. Those who
induced us to war in the Middle East made it personal.
The murderous provocation of 911 was emotionally
wrenching and intensely personal. As a people, our gut
reaction ensured that support for the war would become
widespread.
In the aftermath of that mass murder on U.S. soil,
Martin Peretz, editor of
The New Republic,
summed up the situation: "We are all Israelis now."
So now we can all be persuaded to hate Muslims—even if
we've never met one.
The shared mental environment was flooded with what
then seemed like plausible justifications for the
invasion of Iraq:
Iraqi WMD; Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda; Iraqi meetings with
Al
Qaeda in
Prague;
Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories; Iraqi
purchases of yellowcake uranium from
Niger.
We now know that all those rationales were fixed
around a preset agenda. Yet a critical mass of false
beliefs sufficed to take us to war. For those skilled
at inducing hate, consensus beliefs need not be true,
they need only be credible—and only for a limited
time.
With a corrupt consensus ruling the day, anyone
offering proof that
Iraq was not a threat was
dismissed as unpatriotic or soft on terrorism.
This 911-prompted hate fest started with Iraq, a
former ally, as a U.S.-led invasion kicked off
The Clash of Civilizations.
The bravado of "bring `em on" quickly became "shock
and awe" as a vicious invasion
was pursued with a relaxed "Aw Shucks" attitude
supported with a media campaign comprised of photo ops
of a commander-in-chief nonchalantly clearing brush at
his home in
Crawford, Texas.
Brand America became "We're still the world's biggest
and baddest in the war-waging business. Just you
watch."
And watch us go broke as America led an Atlantic
coalition that, like
Israel, alienated much of the
Muslim world.
An Invalid War
Plus there's another strategic problem: our reason for
invading Iraq was "invalid." That's the assessment of
Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
He should know. After the invasion, the invalid
storyline quickly shifted to "Saddam the Evil Doer" as
our rationale.
How can the rationale be invalid? If we're all
Israelis now, surely that entitles us to invade lands
belonging to Muslims, kill them, transform them into
refugees and, with impunity, create widespread outrage
among the broader Muslim population.
Let's fast-forward to nine years after a high-profile
slaughter in Manhattan and survey our success in the
stark light of hindsight. Are we more secure? Are we
more prosperous? Are Americans facing a brighter
future? Are our children proud of the outcome?
Israel has occupied Palestinian land for more than six
decades. The September 13th issue of
Time magazine
captured the Israeli sentiment: "Why Israel Doesn't
Care About Peace."
Israelis are too busy prospering to care. Outraged
Muslims are a nuisance but they're now largely
marginalized and, for the most part, manageable. Is
that what happened to us? Have Americans become
Israelis?
Not long ago an internal poll of friendly foreign
intelligence agencies ranked our best and worst
allies—those who behave as friends to the U.S. versus
those who are clearly foes. Israel ranked dead last as
a reliable ally. Though their brazen theft of
technical and industrial secrets is well known among
those in the know, the broader U.S. public remains
deceived or in denial.
Most Americans still see Israel as an ally. The facts
confirm that's a dangerous delusion.
Meanwhile
Mossad agents are recruiting
Arab-Americans to spy on their neighbors in the U.S.
Though Tel Aviv is called on the carpet three times as
often as other nations, Israel still ranks third in
the aggressiveness of its U.S. operations, behind only
China
and
Russia.
That ranking may well be out of date with Israel now
first in foreign operations on U.S. soil.
Other Telling Signs
Zionist Jews deployed terror and intimidation to
occupy Muslim lands long before
Harry Truman was induced in 1948
to recognize an extremist enclave as a legitimate
nation state. Disputes over land remain at the heart
of the expansionist agenda for
Greater Israel.
On
September 7, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas asked that the U.S.
settle a dispute over the Israeli expansion of
settlements that threaten to derail Mideast peace
talks. Those talks have dragged on since 1967.
Settling those disputes would disrupt the Zionist
agenda.
In a telling rebuke, on
September 12th, Tel Aviv rejected
a proposed visit to Israel by the foreign ministers of
France, Spain,
Britain, Germany and Italy. Why?
These senior diplomats sought a remedy to that dispute
in order to achieve a long-evasive peace.
Therein lies Israel's strategic strength. Absent this
sustained provocation (43 years and counting), hatred
might subside and peace may become a possibility.
That's a danger Tel Aviv works hard to avoid.
September 12th also saw the release of a new report
indicating that 2,066 new homes would be constructed
in the
West Bank as soon as the
temporary freeze expires September 26th.
Meanwhile back in the U.S., Americans remain unaware
of how many contracts for
Homeland Security were awarded to
Israeli firms or to firms owned by pro-Israelis. Nor
do Americans realize how many Homeland Security
outlays have been directed to Jewish community
centers.
That's all the more reason for
Zionists—both
Jewish and Christian—to create an uproar about an
Islamic Community Center planned for construction two
blocks from the 911 site in Manhattan.
And all the more reason for a Christian-Zionist
preacher to designate the ninth anniversary of 911 as
"International Burn a
Koran Day" at his 50-member
church.
The Koran gambit gained global attention, stoked by a
media dominated by Jewish Zionists. High profile
political personalities ensured that this
hate-mongering stunt was kept in the forefront of
international news coverage in the lead-up to the
anniversary of modern history's best-known
hate-mongering provocation.
Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By Association
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