HILLARY’S SECRET LETTER AND THE WHOLE MATTER OF ENDLESS WAR
AND THE ALMOST COMPLETE CORRUPTION OF AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT
John Chuckman
An almost perfect measure of the decay of democratic values
in American politics is found in a letter from Hillary Clinton to Haim Saban, a
wealthy American-Israeli and a major contributor to the Democrats. It is a
letter whose only purpose is to elicit funds, ingratiating its author to the
recipient by condemning the perfectly legitimate right of free people to choose
boycotting Israel over its appalling behaviors. The letter is disturbing in some of its views
and characterizations, but it has been reviewed and remarked upon by many, as here.
We were not supposed to know this, but there are actually two
letters. The first letter was released by its recipient, but the second letter
was intended only for its recipient’s eyes. Somehow, it managed to be leaked to
The Guardian, although in searching
the Internet to discover just what happened it seems Google has done a pretty
good job of sweeping over the trail.
It is the second letter, the one we were not supposed to
see, which goes beyond being disturbing.
I am not exaggerating when I characterize it as something
comparable to words which might have been written by... well, choose the name
of any grisly dictator, but Adolph Hitler’s would have to be the one jumping to
the minds of most people. This second letter’s words are absolutely chilling.
If you think I’m exaggerating, here are Hillary’s words:
“Quite frankly, Israel
didn’t teach Hamas a harsh enough lesson last year. True to form, Obama was too
hard on our democratic ally, and too soft on our Islamofascist foe.
“As president, I will
give the Jewish state all the necessary military, diplomatic, economic and
moral support it needs to truly vanquish Hamas – and if that means killing
200,000 Gazans, then so be it.
“We realist Democrats
understand that collateral damage is an unavoidable by-product of the War on
Terror, and me being a mother, grandmother and tireless children’s rights
advocate does not mean that I will flinch even one iota in allowing Israel to
obliterate every last school-cum-rocket launching pad in Gaza. Those who allow
their children to be used as human shields for terrorists deserve to see them
buried under one-ton bombs.”
Let’s just analyze a few of the more unacceptable and
repugnant statements in this letter.
“Israel didn’t teach Hamas
a harsh enough lesson…”
In 2014, Israel killed over 500
children plus another 1,700 adults in Gaza, and that came after another
invasion, 2008, and a series of operations beginning in 2006, which saw Israel
kill more than another 1,500 Palestinians. It should be noted that the
Palestinian population is a young one, so a disproportion of children is always
at risk in any attack. We had reliable reports that Israeli soldiers grabbed
Palestinian children to hold in front of them in a number of instances. We also
had first-hand reports of families being targeted.
Over this period, Israel has
maintained a brutal blockade of Gaza, which in its first inception included an
actual calorie count for the amount of food which could just keep a person
alive, an idea we might want to credit to Himmler. International pressure
brought an end to that aspect of the blockade, but even today the Palestinians
cannot get cement to repair their sanitation and homes. Israel also launched
its infamous Gaza flotilla raid in 2010, seizing half a dozen ships attempting
to bring aid to Gaza and killing 10 crew members, all of them unarmed.
I remind readers just what Gaza
is. It is essentially a huge refugee camp, a place where Palestinians huddled
for protection from Israel’s 1948 terror campaign against residents of ancient
villages long since bulldozed out of existence. Today, surrounded by fences and
guards and towers with automated, radar-operated machine-guns, Gaza resembles a
vast outdoor prison, or, if you will, a Bantustan or concentration camp. Even
its fishermen are allowed to go only a short distance into the sea before being
attacked by Israeli gun boats. Periodically, Israel does dirty work like cut
its power or foul its water. Recently, a huge swath of land around its
perimeter was sprayed with herbicides, cutting food supplies and insuring
future malformation of children, just as we see in Vietnam as a result of
America’s use of Agent Orange.
“…our democratic
ally…”
Israel is certainly one of the
world’s strangest “democracies.” About half the people living under its rule do
not want to live under its rule, have no votes, have absolutely no rights, and
are treated in the most abusive manner. Even their homes are not their own with
Israel periodically seizing them for its own purposes.
Then we have the fact that only
Jews are supposed to live in “the Jewish state.” Only Jews are welcomed. Indeed
only Jews are accepted. Other kinds of refugees are turned away. There is a
government program underway right now to clean out the Knesset, Israel’s
legislature, of its few Arab members. These are the representatives of Arabs
trapped in what became Israel in 1948 and reluctantly granted citizenship,
although in daily practice and in many laws, Arab citizens are not deemed as
full citizens, identity papers are stamped and they are subjected to hearing regular
demagogic demands that they all be pushed across the Jordan River and out of
the country.
If you consider Israel a genuine
democracy, then you must also view the American Confederacy or South Africa
under the National Party as democracies. They both held elections and had
legislatures and the dress-up appearances of democracy. It was just that huge
numbers of those countries’ people could not vote and could not own certain
property and had no rights.
Israel’s so-called democracy has
other serious impairments, including a structure for the role of money in
politics that much resembles America’s. It is at best a plutocracy. Millions
pour in to favored candidates like Netanyahu from sources like American
billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
Israel has another highly
undemocratic characteristic, and that is its aversion to democracy in countries
or groups anywhere near it. It always has supported happily tyrants like
Mubarak in Egypt and has worked assiduously to get what was a democratic
organization like Hamas declared and treated as some kind of terrorists.
If Israel is, as Israelis like to
say, the Middle East’s only democracy, I think we can be glad there are not
more such democracies.
“…our Islamofascist
foe…”
Since when are the Palestinians -
who, as is often ignored, include both Islamic and Christian people - “our
foe”? I don’t recall them threatening or attacking anyone? Women and children
and hard-working men on farms and in shops are our foe? People without even the
semblance of a military?
Since when are they
“Islamofascists”? They are just people driven out of their own ancient homes
and farms by groups of well-armed newcomers from Europe and America. And what
is an “Islamofascist,” beyond a slur term coined in Israel for people who are
resented, hated, and abused merely for the fact of their very existence? We did
briefly see in the last assault on Gaza how ugly things get in Israel, something
generally kept from our eyes, with video of Israelis in lawn chairs on the
heights watching homes being bombed and cheering as though it were the home
team scoring a goal at a football match.
“I will give the
Jewish state all the necessary military, diplomatic, economic and moral support
it needs to truly vanquish Hamas…”
What in God’s name does that
mean? America literally pours military, security, and technical assistance into
Israel. There is continuous typhoon of it hitting Israel’s shores. And how
would more help “truly vanquish Hamas”? What would be the shape of that? A
couple of thermonuclear weapons lobbed into Gaza? But Israel already has its
own thermonuclear weapons, albeit through lying and deceit and even theft and against
the intent of all international law and organization, although with the secret
contrivance and acceptance of a couple of generations of politicians like
Hillary.
Why should Hamas be vanquished?
It was elected to office in a clean election, likely cleaner than most American
and Israeli elections. But I forget, Israel hates having democracies anywhere
near its borders. It prefers dealing with – when it deigns even to speak to its
neighbors – men like Mahmoud Abbas, who last legally held office in 2009 and
has unilaterally extended his own term as President ever since, and who is
completely ineffectual in his relations with Israel.
We shouldn’t forget that after
Hamas’s internationally-supervised election, Israeli troops raced into Gaza and
illegally arrested many of its elected officials. It also publicly threatened
the leader’s assassination. Funny, but I don’t recall things going the other
way from this supposedly terrorist organization. After all, it earned the “official”
designation as terrorist from politicians like Hillary Clinton or Newt Gingrich
or Dick Armey working to keep those pro-Israeli campaign funds flowing in.
All of the horrors of invasions,
bombardments, and blockades came after that simple election. Israel hates Hamas
because it does not do exactly as it is ordered to do. Always the excuse is
used that Hamas won’t recognize Israel as “the Jewish state,” but that view deliberately
hides many legitimate issues. In conflict or disagreement, countries typically
do not extend formal recognition. The United States has done this countless
times, including for the last half century with Cuba. It did it for years with
the Soviet Union.
But Israel’s case is not just a
matter of formal recognition. There is a subtle but immensely important difference.
It wants recognition as “the Jewish state.” What would happen to those million
or so Palestinians who hold Israeli passports and are now at least nominally
Israelis? Forced marches across the Jordan River? What happens to the many
important Palestinian claims on Israel? What claims do you think a non-Jew can
have in “a Jewish state” under purely Jewish courts and laws? What happens to
the entire West Bank, which exists under Israeli occupation and is regularly
predated by sudden demands for non-Jewish properties? This is no simple issue
as Israel repeatedly and tiresomely insists that it is.
You are not a terrorist because
you refuse to accept Israel’s terms: you are a people looking out for your own
interests, something all people have the right and need to do. Israel always insists
that this acceptance come before any other matters can be dealt with, and it
then turns to the press and says, “See, I told you, they are terrorists.” Simply absurd, expecting people to just lie
down and let you do whatever you want to them!
“…and if that means
killing 200,000 Gazans, then so be it…”
Only a person so exceedingly
biased towards Israel as to be effectively blind would fail to recognize the
tone of those words. They could easily have been written by Adolph Hitler or
one his charming goons such as Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels.
In the churches and schools where
I was brought up, such speech could never be countenanced, yet here it is,
written by a woman who was Secretary of State now wants to be President. She obviously
knows enough to keep this morally-filthy language secret, hence her method of
the second letter. So, even in her, maybe there is some little remaining sense
of shame? But I doubt it because she is writing these ghastly words for what
purpose? To ask for a large amount of money.
Now, if you wrote words like that
in Israel or in a number of countries, only changing the name of who are to be
killed in mass, you would most certainly go to prison, besides being labelled a
terrorist for life. Apparently, when Hillary learned that this letter leaked,
she made the excuse that there had been a typo, that it should have read
“20,000.” Her moral and ethical organs are so charred and twisted that she
actually thinks 20,00 people killed sounds okay, just fine, maybe ten times as
good as killing 200,000?
But of course, Hillary is grotesquely
lying even in this excuse, as she has lied innumerable times over her adult
life, an ongoing stage play we have all enjoyed in the news: watching her
defend her predatory husband for the sake of future political success, watching
her politically-motivated statement of being shot at in Bosnia in 1996, a claim
almost instantly proved fraudulent by the press, watching her squirm and lie
about what really happened during the murderous events at Benghazi, and
watching her lie as she is investigated about using her private server for top
secret material as Secretary of State.
“Those who allow their
children to be used as human shields for terrorists deserve to see them buried
under one-ton bombs”
This statement is so sick and
twisted, it is frightening. It begs the whole genuine issue of whether any
Palestinian ever did this, while we know from witnesses that Israeli soldiers
did. Just what is it here that we are talking about where children are said to
have been used as shields? A full-fledged invasion by heavily-armed troops, supported
with tanks and artillery and fighter planes into a densely-crowded civilian
area, often aptly described as an open-air prison for a million and a half
souls. How could children avoid becoming targets? In the poor places of the
Middle East with their high birth rates, children are a greater portion of the
population than in advanced countries. Only a genuine monster would launch such
an invasion, and only an equal monster would defend it.
To my mind, this damnable
behavior of Israel’s could be compared to, say, the Detroit Police Department,
supported by the Michigan National Guard, invading the ghettos of Detroit to
capture a few criminals and killing literally thousands of innocent people in
the process and leaving the place a pile of rubble. The whole world would be
appalled. But even that comparison is inadequate. Israel was not chasing
criminals. What Israel was really hoping to do was murder the leaders of Hamas,
a legitimate political party. But even if Hamas were not a legitimate party,
Israel’s act is comparable to Detroit’s police and National Guard killing
thousands to try getting a few members of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s.
We’ve surmised that things like this letter go on in private
because we see our politicians countenancing mass murder and we see the entire
Middle East in flames owing to the same cause. But having the paper in hand is
another matter. For instance, we know Newt Gingrich received the best part of
$20 million for his last nomination campaign from billionaire Sheldon Adelson
and proceeded to make campaign speeches about there being “no such thing as a
Palestinian.”
We know former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a man whose
career was well financed by special interests, actually said in the late part
of his career that Israel should just sweep all the Palestinians out of the
country.
We know that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
said in response to a question about 500,000 deaths of children in Iraq, “We
think the price is worth it,” and does anyone wonder why Albright not only
strongly supports Hillary but recently spoke of “a special place in hell for women”
who didn’t support Hillary?
It tells us a great deal of the lengths to which an American
politician will go to secure large sources of funds. It tells us too something
about her relationship with the recipient that Hillary believed she could
freely address him in such an appalling fashion. Finally, it confirms
everyone’s worst fears about the Israel Lobby and the extremes to which its
supporters are prepared to go.
We all know there is a huge amount of behind-the-scenes,
dirty dealing in American politics, but not just in politics, in foreign
affairs. There is no other explanation for the murky, bloody swamp into which
America’s government has towed the country. America has been continuously at
war for a quarter century. It has killed great numbers of people and destroyed
whole societies. And none of those people threatened the United States, not
even the Taleban who were arbitrarily and without proof held responsible for the
events of 9/11.
Virtually all of it relates directly or indirectly to Israel
and making the Middle East comfortable for a state which itself never hesitates
to threaten, attack, kill, imprison, torture to gain its objectives, its
objectives being to enlarge itself far beyond its original accepted boundaries,
to reduce the native Palestinian population of millions to such miserable
discomfort that they flee their homes, and to assure itself of hegemony
throughout the region, seeing independent-minded leaders like Assad or Gadhafi
literally murdered and their countries torn apart.
It is a program which parallels closely historical examples which
none of us has been taught to admire or approve, historical examples which have
caused great wars and massive human misery. We have established some of our
greatest international institutions precisely out of the wreckage of history
with the aim of not letting it happen again, but today every one of these
institutions is compromised by American pressure on Israel’s behalf, the work
of corrupt politicians like Hillary Clinton.
So it is happening again, although on a smaller scale –
though I wouldn’t want the job of explaining to the people of Syria, Iraq,
Libya, Egypt, and a number of other places that their desolation and misery are
on a smaller scale.
The present Secretary General doesn’t even peep at America’s
many appalling acts. Past Secretaries General who managed to get elected
despite their opposition to American imperialism – an example was Boutros
Boutros-Ghali – were removed in behind-the-scenes plots. Madeleine Albright for
example won her State Department spurs arranging just that kind of thing.
Combinations of threats and bribes do the job nicely, and, of course, the UN
hasn’t forgotten the long period of time the United States simply refused to
pay its treaty-required dues, a quarter of the institution’s budget.
FOOTNOTE: It comes to my attention that there is reason to
suspect the original source of the second letter. It may well have been a hoax.
But even if that proves to be the case, I stand by my comments and observations
as things which needed saying, having their own validity quite apart from that
of the letter.
