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The Return of the Golems -- William A. Cook
September 07, 2013 "Information Clearing House - “AIPAC urges Congress to grant the President the authority he has requested to protect America’s national security interests and dissuade the Syrian regime’s further use of unconventional weapons. The civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons, particularly against an innocent civilian population including hundreds of children.” (AIPAC, 9/3/2013)
To understand AIPAC’s press statement to the US Congress and the American people, we must understand what is not said: “urges” means “demands”; “protect America’s national security interest” means “protect Israel’s national security interests”; “dissuade” means “destroy”; “Syrian regime’s further use of unconventional weapons” means “prevent by total destruction Syria’s use of the weapons Israel uses against Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and the Palestinian people”; “civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons” means “Israel, which does use these barbaric weapons even against children as in the Christmas devastation of Gaza in 2008/9, calls itself civilized knowing the truth that it acts in a barbaric manner but doesn’t want the world to think that is true.”
Thus do words become the vehicle of mass deception draped in the tailored suits of diplomats, bankers and lobbyists who gather to lament,
“barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass.” How softly they speak, these civilized men, in respectful damnation of a neighbor tangled in a web of western intrigue to dismember the Syrian state while they, the lackeys of the Zionist government, hide the four hundred mile wall that incarcerates the Palestinians, the network of hundreds of checkpoints that ensures no free movement even within their own land, robs the people of the taxes they paid to help the poverty that stifles them, imprisons them without charge in indefinite detention for ten and twenty years destroying home life and economic growth, confident that they carry the seal of impunity of the American Congress for crimes against humanity for their barbaric behavior.
To understand AIPAC’s press statement to the US Congress and the American people, we must understand what is not said: “urges” means “demands”; “protect America’s national security interest” means “protect Israel’s national security interests”; “dissuade” means “destroy”; “Syrian regime’s further use of unconventional weapons” means “prevent by total destruction Syria’s use of the weapons Israel uses against Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and the Palestinian people”; “civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons” means “Israel, which does use these barbaric weapons even against children as in the Christmas devastation of Gaza in 2008/9, calls itself civilized knowing the truth that it acts in a barbaric manner but doesn’t want the world to think that is true.”
Thus do words become the vehicle of mass deception draped in the tailored suits of diplomats, bankers and lobbyists who gather to lament,
“barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass.” How softly they speak, these civilized men, in respectful damnation of a neighbor tangled in a web of western intrigue to dismember the Syrian state while they, the lackeys of the Zionist government, hide the four hundred mile wall that incarcerates the Palestinians, the network of hundreds of checkpoints that ensures no free movement even within their own land, robs the people of the taxes they paid to help the poverty that stifles them, imprisons them without charge in indefinite detention for ten and twenty years destroying home life and economic growth, confident that they carry the seal of impunity of the American Congress for crimes against humanity for their barbaric behavior.
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36153.htm
