The ADL Motto: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it!
Alison Weir on the deceit of Bill Moyers
Mr. Moyers begins his speech with the typical, and inaccurate, attack on a group defending its population from massive attacks by the fourth most powerful military on the planet. The most recent Israeli carnage has prompted him to finally speak out on something that he has joined the American media in hiding from Americans for many years. Yes, he finally condemned Israel's most recent savage violence -- after first misrepresenting its cause.
The fact is that it is Israel that had violated the cease-fire -- not Hamas.
In fact, in the many truces and cease-fires since the intifada began in fall of 2000, it is Israel that has overwhelmingly initiated the resumption of violence.
The fact is that Palestinian resistance groups only began firing their mostly small, homemade rockets after Israeli forces had invaded Gaza and the West Bank, killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinian men, women, and children. In eight years, these rockets have killed 18 Israelis. During this period, Israeli forces have killed 6,288 Palestinians, at least -- 140 of them BEFORE a single Israeli in Israel had been killed; 82 Palestinian children BEFORE a single Israeli child had been killed.
Mr. Moyers needs to be more honest, accurate, and precise. No, Mr. Moyers, Hamas would NOT "like to see every Jew in Israel dead." Hamas would like Israel to end its decades-long assault on Palestinians, confiscation of their land, and torture of the 11,000 men, women, and children currently held in Israeli prisons -- many of whom have never even been charged with a crime.
To learn the facts on Hamas, Israel, and Palestine, go to IfAmericansKnew dot org.
Please, Mr. Moyers, stop kowtowing to the ADL, an organization whose mission seems to have become to defame anyone who conveys facts about Israeli crimes. The more you bend over backwards, the more they will attack you, as you have recently seen. Instead, please begin to speak the unvarnished truth. Lives depend on it.
Posted by: Alison Weir | February 5, 2009 10:53 AM