A Rare Testimony by an Independent Party

I write from time to time about Israel and its crimes, and the role that the Israel lobby and the neocons play in enabling Israel to continue its occupation, killing and new crimes against the Palestinians and around the world, and I receive unremitting support from the readers for this. But the problem is that I and my readers are on the other side of this struggle, and therefore, our testimonies are biased by default. So today, I have a rare testimony given by an independent party, or one that can be considered on Israel’s side: The Republican Representative Ron Paul, who is a physician and a possible presidential candidate in the U.S. elections. He made a speech at the National Press Club that is worth translating, even if in part, as it is a fully documented condemnation of Israel and the U.S. support afforded to it. Furthermore, Alison Weir also published an article/study on the background of the establishment of the state of Israel. I have no credit in today’s article except for my selections and translations. Ron Paul said: According to the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution [does not allow] exceptions when convenient; rather, it is the law of the land. Last week’s (he means on 30/9/2011) assassination of two American citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, is an outrage and a criminal act carried out by the president and his administration. Timothy McVeigh was certainly a threat, as were Nidal Hasan and Jared Lee Loughner. They killed people in front of many witnesses. They took up arms against their government in a literal way yet were still afforded trials. Awlaki has been outspoken against the United States, and we are told he encouraged violence against Americans. We do not know that he actually committed any acts of violence. As the U.S. attacks against Muslims in the Middle East and Central Asia expanded, it is said that he became more fervent and radical in his opposition to U.S. foreign policy. Many cheer this killing because they believe that in a time of war, due process is not necessary. However, there has been no formal declaration of war and certainly not one against Yemen. Awlaki was on a kill list compiled by a secret panel within President Obama’s National Security Council and Justice Department. How many more Americans citizens are on that list? They won’t tell us. Awlaki’s father tried desperately to get the administration to at least allow his son to have legal representation to challenge the “kill” order. He was denied. Rather than give him his day in court, the administration, behind closed doors, served as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. History shows that once a population gives up its rights, they are not easily won back. [End] This is with regard to extrajudicial killings that violate the U.S. law itself. As for the Palestinian Authority’s application for full membership in the United Nations, the American activist and writer Alison Weir wrote a piece that has settled any debate regarding the creation of Israel. Below is my summary and translation: The common representation of Israel’s birth is that the U.N. created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the U.S. governmental establishment supported it. All these assumptions are demonstrably incorrect. In reality, while the U.N. General Assembly recommended the creation of a Jewish state in part of Palestine, that recommendation was non-binding and never implemented. The General Assembly passed that recommendation only after Israel proponents threatened and bribed numerous countries in order to gain [the] required votes. The U.S. administration supported the recommendation out of domestic considerations and took this position over the strenuous objections of the State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon. Weir then quotes Henry F. Grady, who has been called America’s top diplomatic soldier for a critical period of the Cold War, and who headed a 1946 commission aimed at coming up with a solution for Palestine, as saying that the Zionist lobby’s pressure on the U.S. brought about the ill-will with the Arabs, although the Arab states were of such strategic importance in the Cold War with the Soviets. He also said that his experience helped him learn a lot about the activities of lobbies, but that the Zionist lobby started where the other ‘lobbies’ had ended. Weir’s article is not an opinion piece; rather, it is full of documented information with verbatim and dated testimonies by the relevant people in the U.S. administration and the Zionist lobby. I find this to be a full condemnation of the creation of a bizarre state, on the basis of religious myths, on the lands of another people that was dispossessed and systematically killed. Weir did not forget to also mention that the Zionists perpetrated 33 massacres against Palestinian civilians, half of them before a single Arab army had entered Palestine. We have said all this about the successive U.S. administrations, and how they readily violate U.S. laws when the target is Arabs or Muslims. We also wrote a great deal about the lies of Israel and its establishment. However, what matters most about the above is that it is being said by Americans, one a Republican Representative, and the other the president of “If Americans Knew”, an organization aimed at exposing the lies of Israel and its gang.