Since I expect to get the more than usual feedback on this one, because it relates to Israel vs. Palestine--an issue I try to avoid because this is the one issue that needs more watching than writing about and, unfortunately, most columnists don't follow this advice--I'm going to have to first go on the defensive.
I HATE going on the defensive! But since even my husband will oppose this, I'm going on the defensive.
Why? Because even though I normally support Israel--being a Christian I have to (read Ezekiel and you'll know what I mean, particularly Ezekiel chapter 38)--I CANNOT support "Israel: Right or Wrong"; that is, if Israel really did massacre Palestinians in Jenin, something even the US media are admitting begrudgingly, I cannot support it, no matter what someone reads in the Old Testament. So, read this, Israel-firsters: I support Israel. I DO NOT support "Israel, right OR WRONG".
Why should I? I AM NOT a citizen of Israel and I'm not Jewish. Further, I am starting to question the patriotism of Americans who are, in fact, Israel-First.
That said, I will now go onto my column, which has to do with possible undo influence Israel has on the US media. (I am not talking about publications like "The Jewish Daily Forward" here, I mean mainstream nationwide publications like CNN, New York Times, etc.)
I am not even talking about the Israel-Palestinian "conflict" here ("war" is a better term, seeing as how they are bound and determined to wipe each other out, or could "genocide" be a better one?). I am talking about the proverbial "WW4" that our neo-cons are drooling over, the next one, that is being planned as I write: War on Iraq 2.
Read any mainstream national paper and someone will tell you the reason for waging war on Iraq is because Saddam is killing his own people; for instance, the Kurds. One-hundred-thousand of them says folks like J. R. Woolsey in "http://www.tnronline.com" (The New Republic). Supposedly in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War (hint: we supported Saddam; Israel supported Iran), Saddam was "gassing" about 100,000 Kurds who fled Iraq into Turkey. New research however concludes that this never happened (read "http://supplysideinvestor.com/showarticl..."; the article by Jude Wanniski is called "Saddam Did Not Gas the Kurds" using evidence gathered in the book sited in his article).
What's interesting about Wanniski is that his point of view is usually dictated by eco-political reality (he was also a foreign policy advisor under Reagan, which makes him more believable than folks like Justin Raimondo of "http://antiwar.com", who claim that Israel is running the USA, and live to make the neo-cons scream, if nothing else). In the article "Saddam Huusein: From Ally to Enemy" (read: http://supplysideinvestor.com/showarticl..."), Wanniski puts forth the credible argument (backed by that book I mentioned earlier--read the article) that while the USA under Reagan backed Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s (won by Iraq), Israel backed Iran (who lost because of superior US support to Iraq, which tipped the balance toward the end and Iran could no longer hold on); a few years later, we turned against Saddam and one pretext for that was "evidence" that Hussein was gassing the Kurds (but if this is true, why are the Kurds now leaving Turkey for Iraq again? Can someone answer that?). I have "evidence" in quotes because no forensic evidence, the only kind that matters, has ever been found to prove that Saddm was gassing Kurds.
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