Go To Hell, Olmert.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, really, at the blatant hypocracy of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Even as he claimed Israel would be a "willing partner in peace", a highly dubious and historically inaccurate claim, with the Palestinians, he threatened that it was willing to go it alone.

Well, not really alone, mind you, because the United States is pretty much Israel's bitch.

Before I get into this, I want to be completely clear. I am not anti-semetic, but I am rabidly anti-Zionist. Frequently these two different positions are lumped into one by people who then turn around and accuse governmental bodies of oversimplification of issues. I wish no harm to jewish people (I wish no harm to anyone), however there is absolutely no sane reason on the face of the planet that Israel, as a nation, should exist or that we as the United States should support it's existance.

Since it's horribly misguided and shockingly unfair creation in the 1940s on the basis of a nightmarish decision by the United Nations (which for me serves as one of the strongest arguments against the existance of the United Nations as well, an organization who's ideals and aims I tend to support), Israel has done nothing but agitate and anger it's region the entire Middle East, secure in the knowledge that it had the full support of the United States.

It continues that policy of agitation and aggression to this day. Olmert and his recent press junket tour of the U.S. is little more than an excuse for syncophants to come oozing out of the woodwork like blood pouring down the walls of the Amityville Horror house. It's also a blatant attempt to ramp up to a military action in Iran. The fact alone that Israel is pushing for such action should be enough for us to be against it.

Olmert's latest salvo was his address to Congress where he said choice bits of propoganda like, "We will not yield to terror." Israel, however, hasn't the slightest problem with using terror tactics to achieve it's ends. After all, it's only terror if it's not government-sponsored. Since it's inception, Israel has been guilty of blatant acts of terror and atrocity, but those go unconsidered because there are so many money links between the U.S. and Israel that it would be too inconvenient to own up to sponsoring a nation as guilty of "terrorism" as Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.

Israeli military historian, Aryeh Yitzahki, former Director of the Israeli Defense Force archives and lecturer at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, has documented the shopping list of Israeli atrocities against Arabs during the War of Independence. Speaking about the battling around Arab villages between May and July of 1948:

Sometimes the report tells about blatant massacres which were committed after the battle, sometimes the massacres are committed in the heat of battle and while the villages are ‘cleansed’.

For example, author Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed points to a massacre that occured at al-Dawayima village on the 29th of October in 1948. A soldier present at the incident testified that, after the 89th Battalion entered the village without a fight, the killings commenced:

“The first wave of conquerors killed about 80 to 100 Arabs, women and children. The children they killed by breaking their heads with sticks. There was not a house without dead. One woman, with a newborn baby in her arms was employed to clean the courtyard.... (they) shot her and the baby.... This was not in the heat of battle.... but a system of expulsion and destruction”.--From Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949.

Israel was born in terror and has not renounced it's practice since, preferring to call it "self-defense" by moving it to a state-sponsored level.

This makes Olmert's claims of peace and willingness to work with Palestinians not only false, but particularly disgusting in that he still forget's Israel's own terrorist activities while attacking and punishing random Palestinian civilians for the same acts carried out on a smaller scale.

But he's getting what he wants. Olmert has secured a Yee-Haw backing from Bush, who has said unequivocably that if Israel is attacked, we will side with them. Olmert urges action against Iran, saying, "If we don't take Iran's bellicose rhetoric seriously now, we will be forced to take its nuclear aggression seriously later." Whereas, Israel's bellicose rhetoric and their confirmed possession of nuclear weapons (as well as their continuing unwillingness to officially disclose that information) is all right. And what action would be appropriate? A UN resolution? A laughable suggestion coming from Israel, as it frequently ignores UN resolutions passed against it. For 35 years, the U.N. has been calling on Israel to withdraw unconditionally from Palestinian territories, yet Israel willfully ignores these resolutions when it wishes . Thus, Israel continues to violate international law, secure in the knowledge that the U.S. will protect them from any U.N. fallout. This undermines the authority of the international body that gave them the supposed right to exist in the first place.

So, Olmert, go home. Never come back. If Israel wishes to play such hard ball, then it should do so by itself, and we, the United States, who are the purported leaders in the worldwide fight against terrorism, should dissolve all contact with this terrorist rogue nation.

Mind you, I know this will never happen. Still, it would be nice for us to be clean at least once in the past ten years or so.