PALESTINE, 1824? Lapie, Pierre (1779-1851) Paris
MODERN PALESTINE, 1851 . Rapkin, John (1815-1876) Drawn & Engraved by J. Rapkin London & New York J. & F. Tallis
	PALESTINE, 1886. [Cram, George Franklin] (1841-1928) Engraver & Publisher, Chicago
PALESTINE, 1946.
	PALESTINE, 1988. Ooops, What happened to Palestine? Who's occupied Palestine? What's happened to all those Palestinians?

• In the past 18 months, to 1st May, 2002, Israeli terrorists have killed approximately 1,200, Palestinians, (now probably 1,600 - 1,800, up to 12th May 2002). They have used American tanks, American helicopter gunships, American warplanes, and American missiles against civilians.
  In the same period, in response to the Israeli killings, Palestinian suicide bombers have killed approximately 200 Israelis.

• Ariel Sharon oversaw the slaughter of over 800 Palestinian civilians, mostly women & children, in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in South Beirut in 1982.

• In Jenin the Israeli army used bulldozers to crush house in which civilians sheltered, the Israelis used civilians as human shields when they attacked Palestinians and checked for booby traps. These acts fall within the definition of war crimes.

• Israel has developed weapons of mass destruction and has over 200 nuclear weapons, and the USA has done nothing about it.

• The government of U.S.A. has funded and still funds and arms the Israeli terrorists. This year, 2002, USA government is giving Israel $2,000,000,000 in military aid, that's an awful lot of tanks, helicopter gunships, warplanes, missiles etc.etc. that's an awful lot of dead Palestinians, and that's nothing compared the previous years.

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  A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion and Counting







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  Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person




• October 26
  The U.S. Senate yesterday approved its annual foreign aid package, with Israel getting $2.76 billion, of which $2 billion will go for defense purchases in the U.S. and the remaining $760 million will be in civilian aid.




• CNN.com - Memories of Sharon's past revived - April 17, 2001



• BBC News - Sharon summoned by Belgian court



• CNN.com - Sharon hearings begin in Belgium - November 28, 2001



• More documents prove Sharon's involvement in Sabra, Chatilla massacres



• Ex-Israeli ally ready to testify in case against Sharon



• Canadian Security Intelligence Force report on Israel's nuclear arsenal.



• Israel’s Nuclear Development & Strategy: Future Ramifications for the Middle East Regional Balance


• FAS - Weapons of Mass Destruction




A schoolgirl riddled with bullets. And no one is to blame , - October 21 2004 Questions remain after Israeli unit commander is cleared of Palestinian pupil's death .

• The Times, 16 April 2002
  Inside the camp of the dead



• Reports on Infrastructural Destruction and Human Rights Violations against Palestinian civil society March/April 2002

	Inside Hell, - April 4, 2002 Muna Khleifi lives in Ramallah, one of the Palestinian towns besieged by Israeli soldiers. Here she describes a week of deprivation and terror.
	Israeli Army uses tank and heavy machine gun to kill 6 year old Palestinian children. - 21 June 2002
	A Brief History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
	Israelis attack and kill UN relief workers. - Dec. 7 2002 About 10 days after killing the British Head of the UN Relief Opperation in Jenin, the Israelis killed two more UN relief workers in Gaza. I now see that the US has vetoed a UN resolution criticising Israel for killing the UN relief workers. What sort of morality does the US have when it thinks it is acceptable for Israel to kill unarmed United Nations relief workers?
	Death of town, - Oct 27, 2003 . . . Palestinians in Rafah have killed three soldiers and one Jewish settler during the intifada. The Israelis have killed about 280 people in Rafah . . .
	Ten die as Israeli tanks fire on peaceful protest, - May 20th, 2004
	Palestinian doctors despair at rising toll of children shot dead by army snipers, - May 20th, 2004 . . . Will these Israelis ever stop slaughtering Palestinian civilians ?

Petition to investigate and clear/condemn Ariel Sharon

• 237 F-16 Fighting Falcons, $34.3m (each!)
• 98 F-15 Eagles, $38m
• 50 F-4E Phantoms, $18.4m

• 42 AH-64 Apache Attacks, $14.5m
• 57 Cobra Attacks, $10.7m
• 25 Blackhawks, $11m

• AGM 65 Mavericks, $17,000-$110,000
• AGM 114 Hellfires, $40,000
• Aim 7 Sparrows, $125,000
• Aim 9 Sidewinders, $84,000
• Aim 120B Amraams, $386,000
• Harpoon anti-ship missiles, $720,000

If you require detailed information on the supply of military equipment to Israel check out,
Federation of American Scientists.

It would be possible to list hundreds of reports of killings by Israelis and how this has been supported by U.S.A. If you don't want to believe me you might be more convinced if you did the searches yourself, go to Google and simply search for:

Sharon Sabra Chatilla Shatila

or try:

"Foreign Aid" USA Israel

and:

Israel nuclear weapons

Don't just try these, try anything which will give you more information about what is happening out there, and who is responsible for it.

U.S.A. Attitude to Democracy and Chemical Weapons

If you get bored seeing the Israelis using American helicopter gunships, American warplanes and American tanks to kill civilians in Palestine you could check out the US attitude to democracy, try Google and search for:

["declassified documents" xxx yyy]

where 'xxx' & 'yyy' are anything that interests you, try, Chile, Indonesia, Timor, Nicaragua etc. etc. In the past 50 years the government of USA has deliberately de-stabilised democratically elected governments, has funded and armed terrorists in many countries, etc. etc. I could go on and list lots of appalling acts perpertrated by USA. You will be more convinced if you do the search and find the facts yourself.
Do you think the current government is any different? What will the declassified documents say in decades to come?

Another interesting exercise with Google is to try and find out how many people were killed due to the USA intervention in Vietnam, and why USA thought that their deaths were appropriate.
I came up with 2,100,000 Vietnamese and 58,200 Americans being killed. I couldn't find any acceptable reason why they should have been butchered, perhaps you are better with Google than I am.

If you would like an extensive list of US intervention in world affairs check out, http://whatreallyhappened.com/usinterventionism.html.

Or if you think that the US government is not developing chemical weapons check out:
US Military Operating a Secret Chemical Weapons Program
Don't get angry with me because the Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate is operating an illegal and classified chemical weapons program, I'm just pointing you to the facts.

Please don't send me any vitriolic messages, I have not expressed any personal views here, yet. I am just trying to lay out some facts which many people don't realise and many prefer not to consider.

If you have some facts to show that Sharon wasn't The Butcher of Beirut, that America isn't funding and supplying the weapons to Israel, if you can show that the U.S.A. has a consistent policy on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Democracy, please tell me, I'd much prefer to believe that.

O.K. - My Personal View

If I was Jewish or American I would be greatly ashamed of Israeli terrorism and America facilitating it. It's not about racial or national solidarity, it's about morality, and the Israeli actions, and American support are immoral by any standard, just like the Nazis, and more recently the Serbs, before them. If someone handed a knife to a known murderer, then stood by and watched him kill someone, he too would be guilty of murder, and so it is with U.S.A. and Israel.

How have the Israelis have managed to hijack the government of U.S.A.'s foreign policy and foreign aid?
Even though I did not support the destruction of the WTC, in any way, and I still do not, I can now understand why some Palestinians, Arabs, and Moslems feel such action is justifiable.

I am disappointed with Britain, Europe and UN's ineffectiveness on these key issues. As the butchery continues my views are slowly becoming less pacifist. Surely it is time for Europe, Middle Eastern countries and the rest of the world to supply anti-tank and anti-helicopter weapons to the Palestinians so that they can defend themselves from these land-grabbing Israeli terrorists.

On Friday 17th May, 2002 I received a group of emails about my website here are the key extracts:
(Do these people react like this to the BBC, CNN and The Times everytime they report the facts)

From: jamie_musikant@hotmail.com

bye the way - YOUR FAMOUS - you website is being passed onto every jew, evry pro israeli individual and thousands of others that are going to demonstrate to have your name and your web site destroyed.

From: Sebastian Dey at bastl2012@hotmail.com

From: Claudia Peters

Claudia

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Hi Claudia,

So you are saying my facts are wrong.

Are you saying USA is not giving $2,000 million to Israel for military aid this year? You are wrong. It is very easily checked out, the US government foreign aid budget is public information.

Are you saying that Ariel Sharon did not oversee the massacres in Sabra & Chatilla? The Israeli government had an enquiry and established that he did.

Are you saying that the Israelis have not killed approaching 1,800 Palestinians in the past 19 months? The exact number is unknown but before Israel invaded Palestine, this time, the undisputed figure was around 1,200. All the evidence since the Israeli invasion suggests that the figure is now around 1,800

Are you saying that Israel does not have nuclear weapons? If you say that, you are wrong.

Are you saying that the Israeli killers in Jenin did not use bulldozers to flatten houses with people inside them? If so you are wrong. The evidence is there for all to see, the Israeli killers admit they did.

Tell me, why does Israel not want a UN enquiry into the Israeli actions in Jenin. The reason is because they are guilty of war crimes and they are trying to prevent the evidence being collected and being made official by United Nations.

Sadly, Claudia, my facts are not wrong, I wish they were.

From: Michelle Lewis

How dare you write such openly pro Arab propaganda. For the record, you may profess not to be an anti-semite, but you definately come across as one. Your views are no better than some neo fascist/neo nazi.
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I suggest you keep you views to yourself before you get lynched.


My reply:

Hi Michelle,

I differentiate between the views of Jews and Israelis. Are you are suggesting that Israeli views and Jewish views are the the same. I would be very disapointed to find there is no distinction. I can not believe that a race could change from being opressed to being butcher so easily. I believe you do Jewish people a great injustice.

I do not have up to date accurate figures, but it appears to me, that in the last few years, for every Israeli killed by the Palestinians seven or eight Palestinians are killed by Israelis. At it's simplest, the Palestinian terrorists are brutal, but the Israelis are eight times more brutal.

Here's something that you might like to add that shows the utter contempt that Israel has for the USA! 3 years ago, Samuel Sheinbein, an American jew, beheaded a 19 year old Christian boy in Maryland. He then fled to the waiting arms of Israel. Even though Samuel had never before set foot on Israeli soil, the Israeli supreme court immediately declared him an Israeli citizen and refused America's request to extradite him. There are 2 things wrong here: Firstly is Israel declaring him a citizen, merely because he is jewish. Secondly, so what if he IS an Israeli citizen... He committed murder in the US - he should have to face American justice. Instead of facing the death penalty in Maryland, Samuel is in a minimum security prison in Israel and is up for parole in 6 years.
Some ally Israel is!

You may do a YAHOO or Google search of "Samuel Sheinbein" There are hundreds of links.

By the way - I'm not an Arab, Moslem, etc.. Just an American who is embarassed about my country's participation in the ethnic cleansing in Palestine.