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Media Silent As Doubts Emerge Over Disco Bombing
by Enver Masud
WASHINGTON, DC--Considering that Israel almost went to war over it, why is it
that
major U.S. media, which has given daily, local and national coverage to the
Chandra Levy missing person story, and her relationship to U.S. Congressman
Gary Condit, is virtually silent over recent allegations regarding the
bombing of the Israeli disco in Tel Aviv?
Consider these reports from the international press:
- "A Palestinian with links to
Israeli intelligence unwittingly acted as a driver for the suicide bomber
responsible for the devastating explosion that killed 22 people outside a
Tel Aviv discotheque." (Uzi Mahnaimi, "Disco Bomber Used Israeli Mole As
Driver," Sunday Times, June 24, 2001)
- "The bomber of a Tel Aviv discotheque who killed himself and 20 others had
entered
Israel from Jordan on an Israeli visa and had no ties with the Palestinian
National Authority, an Israeli Arab MP said Wednesday. Mohammed Barakei, a
communist member of parliament, told AFP the information came from
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom he and fellow Israeli Arab MP Issam
Mahlul met Wednesday afternoon in the West Bank town of Ramallah." ("Tel
Aviv Bomber Arrived from Jordan with Israeli Visa," AFP, June 06, 2001)
- Joe Vialls, a Private Investigator based in Western Australia, with thirty
years direct
experience of international military and multinational operations, reports:
"Grim-faced Jewish intelligence experts are claiming that the bombing
outside Pacha's Disco which killed 18 and wounded 100 was the work of
Israeli fanatics rather than Islamic Jihad or a new (media invented)
organization described as 'Palestinian Hizbollah'." ("Descendents of Stern
Gang Massacre Israeli Children in Media Spectacular," June 2, 2001)
The victims of the disco bombing, according to Israel Shamir, an immigrant
Russian
journalist based in Jaffa, Israel, were mostly Russian immigrants--the girls
often married Palestinians. Mr. Shamir says, "Few of them are Jews by any
reasonable criteria, and Israeli radio informed that it would be quite
impossible to bury the victims in the hallowed ground of the Jewish
cemetery.... If they perish, they are buried beyond the fence, together
with suicides."
Were these Russian immigrants sacrificed to provide a pretext for escalating
Israel's
war on the Palestinians?
The Israeli government may not be averse to killing Jews to achieve its
goals. Amnon
Kapeliouk, wrote in "A Century of Zionism," (Le Monde Diplomatique, November
1997), "Most Iraqi Jews, whose situation was generally satisfactory, were
slow to respond to the pressing calls of Israeli Jews to immigrate. At the
start of 1951 a bomb exploded in a Baghdad synagogue causing two deaths and
dozens of wounded. Following which, 100,000 Iraqi Jews decided to leave for
the promised land. The attack, never claimed, has sometimes been attributed
to Israeli agents, something that the Israeli government has always
formally denied."
Since the beginning of the current Palestinian uprising, Israel has killed
500
Palestinians, injured 23,000, and destroyed 27,000 trees and 3,200
buildings, including 1,200 homes. The Israeli toll is 106 killed and 760
injured. (Charley Reese, "Only Thing To Negotiate Is Timetable for Israel's
Withdrawal," Orlando Sentinel, June 21, 2001)
All this supported by a U.S. subsidy to Israel of about $25,000 for every
Israeli man,
woman, and child according to Richard H. Curtiss, former chief inspector of
the U.S. Information Agency.
Now that it's needed, where is the moral outrage and investigative zeal
displayed by
U.S. media in the Chandra Levy case, the Monica Lewinsky affair, and the
trial of football star O. J. Simpson?
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