Brigadier General Says Israel is the problem not Iraq/Iran

[bambam]

Brigadier General Says Israel is the problem not Iraq

Questions and Answers about Iraq and Israel

by James J. David a retired Brigadier General
Jan 7, 2003

(James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S.Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington, DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.)

Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel.

Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
Answer: Israel.

Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of
other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
Answer: Israel.

Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
Answer: Israel.

Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
Answer: Israel.

Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte#Assassinated_in_Jerusalem_by_Lehi )?
Answer: Israel.

Q: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the
assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
Answer: Israel.

Q: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
Answer: Israel.

Q. What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody?
Answer: Israel

Q. What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.
Answer: Israel

Q: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
Answer: Israel.

Q. Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children?
Answer: Israel

Q: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
Answer: Israel.

Q. Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world?
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S.?
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely insults the American people by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign aid?
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We control America (http://www.mediamonitors.net/khodr49.html)?"
Answer: Israel

Q. What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing.
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian
children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored
vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks?
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing?
Answer: Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100
political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
Answer: Israel

Q.. Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva
Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes?
Answer: Israel

Q: What country in the Middle East is the United States threatening to attack because of fear that it may be a threat to us and to our allies?
Answer: Iraq

[soulflare]

In before the anti-semite labeling.

[xKagex]

While I agree that the holocaust was horrible, and we should feel great remorse towards Jews, having this held over our heads while Israel continues in its own holocaust towards Palestinians is ridiculous. It's ok to be critical of almost any nation, but for some reason when it's Israel, we're all made to feel horribly guilty about the atrocities towards Jews 60-some-odd years ago.

There's nothing anti-semitic about this thread.

[atforum]

you should add. ex-brigadier. Officers currently working rarely speak openly

[poedua]

While I agree that the holocaust was horrible, and we should feel great remorse towards Jews, having this held over our heads while Israel continues in its own holocaust towards Palestinians is ridiculous. It's ok to be critical of almost any nation, but for some reason when it's Israel, we're all made to feel horribly guilty about the atrocities towards Jews 60-some-odd years ago.

There's nothing anti-semitic about this thread.

Actually, to claim there is a " holocaust towards Palestinians" being undertaken by Israel...... " is ridiculous ".

If Israel is conducting a campaign of genocide on the scale of the Holocaust - as you claim they are - perhaps you should provide some evidence of this genocide to back your claim up.

Not anti-semitic perhaps ..but rather anti-Israel. That said, your comments speak for themselves IMO.

[Txiasaeia]

Very convenient that you neglected to mention that David is second-generation Lebanese. I bet I can find you other high ranking officers in the US Military who are not only second-generation Israeli, but who think that Iraq/Iran is the problem, not Israel.

But hey, let's go through this point-by-point, with a twist:

Question: Despite Israel's ownership of nuclear weapons, has it ever used them in combat?
Answer: No.

Q: Which country in the Middle East has recently threatened to abandon the nuclear non-proliferation treaty?
Answer: Iran.

Q: Which country in the Middle East denies the right for other sovereign territories to own land lawfully given to them by the UN?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with rockets and suicide bombers?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: What Iraqi ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
Answer: Palestine (as of 2006)

Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Answer: Palestine (again, as of 2006)

Q: What country in the Middle East has a policy of targetting civilians in order to force foreign governments to acqueise to their demands?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it has destroyed with suicide bombers and rocket attacks?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: In what country in the Middle East have multiple assassination plots been orchestrated by the government?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: In what country in the Middle East did internationally recognised terrorists become the elected government?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: What country in the seized an American embassy in 1979, breaking international law?
Answer: Iran.

Q: What country in the Middle East employed jihadists and sent them against civilian targets?
Answer: Iran.

Q: What country at first refused to return a POW to the soldier's country of origin, then cried foul when their government officials were "kidnapped"?
Answer: Palestine.

Q. What Middle East countries allows Arabic Islamic murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody?
Answer: Palestine, Iran.

Q. What Middle East country encourages hate against civilian targets?
Answer: Palestine.

Q. Which country in the Middle East recently threatened to launch chemical and biological weapons against civilian targets?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: Which country in the Middle East is internationally recognised as a terrorist state because of the constitution of its government?
Answer: Palestine.

Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Israeli children for no reason other than belonging to Israel?
Answer: Palestine.

Q. Which country in the Middle East has recently pulled its settlers out of Gaza in accordance with the Oslo Accord?
Answer: Israel.

Q. Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100
political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
Answer: Palestine.

Q. Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on innocent civilians?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: What country in the Middle East has consistently chosen to make life worse for its own citizens simply because it refuses to recognise Israel's right to exist?
Answer: Palestine.

Q: Since when did the three-year-old, uncited opinion of a second-generation Lebanese general in the US army merit any extended attention?
Answer: ...?

[Txiasaeia]

While I agree that the holocaust was horrible, and we should feel great remorse towards Jews, having this held over our heads while Israel continues in its own holocaust towards Palestinians is ridiculous.

Millions of Palestinians have been rounded up in Israeli extermination camps and have been gassed, shot, tortured, and dehumanised? You'd think that Al-Jazeera would have reported this ages ago if it were true...

[fakishan]

If Israel is conducting a campaign of genocide on the scale of the Holocaust - as you claim they are - perhaps you should provide some evidence of this genocide to back your claim up.

We didn't find about the jewish holocaust until after the war. How did such a "massive" operation occur without anyone realizing? Maybe the jews learned something from the nazis?

End the occupation and we'll be able to comfirm it ;)

[asim99]

the brigadier is right about the terrorist israeli state....however, i doubt if his views will get a lot of exposure in the north-american media, overwhelmingly influenced by israeli apologists, as sharon so eloquently told peres "we control america".

[asim99]

Very convenient that you neglected to mention that David is second-generation Lebanese.
very convenient that you neglected to mention that your family is jewish ;)

but anyways, anyone with access to an internet search engine can find out about david's lebanese heritage

[bubble.tea]

Very convenient that you neglected to mention that David is second-generation Lebanese. I bet I can find you other high ranking officers in the US Military who are not only second-generation Israeli, but who think that Iraq/Iran is the problem, not Israel.

But hey, let's go through this point-by-point, with a twist:..........
:D good twist Q&As

[Ryan]

Flame bait. Lock.