NITED STATES ISAEL –Our Eyes Wide Shut– .S. SIMPSON the UNITED STATES of ISRAEL RSs Copyright © 2021 by R.S. Simpson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a license from The Cana- dian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For a copyright license, visit accesscopyright.ca or call toll free 1-800-893-5777. Cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada. ISBN 978-1-7775148-0-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-7775148-1-5 (ebook) Editor: Don Loney Book design (cover and interior) and layout: Ruth Dwight Published by af4p.com Printed in Canada Contents Preface ................................................................................................................. iv Introduction ..................................................................................................... xv Chapter 1: Media .......................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2: Terror ........................................................................................17 Chapter 3: Israel First...............................................................................35 Chapter 4: Lockstep...................................................................................53 Chapter 5: Slaughter ’09 .........................................................................69 Chapter 6: Slaughter ’14 .........................................................................85 Chapter 7: Free Speech? ..........................................................................99 Chapter 8: Apartheid .............................................................................115 Chapter 9: Hypocrisy .............................................................................137 Chapter 10: The Lobby ...........................................................................155 Chapter 11: Iran .........................................................................................175 Chapter 12: Iraq .........................................................................................189 Chapter 13: Holocaust .............................................................................207 Chapter 14: Peace ......................................................................................225 Epilogue ..........................................................................................................241 About the Author ........................................................................................244 To the Palestinians, the citizens and armed services of the United States and Great Britain, and any other victims of the most widespread and diabolical public relations campaign in the history of the world. “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon [a thick stick used as a weapon] is to the totalitarian state.” NOAM CHOMSKY, activist, scholar, from his book Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. Preface Establishing a cutoff date for the compilation of this book’s material presented a challenging dilemma. It’s extremely difficult because the atrocities or lies that come out of Israel and from its fanatical support - ers in the US on a weekly or daily basis never cease to infuriate and amaze. The ultimate in ongoing gall. But after years, even decades, of piling up material to choose from, we selected July 2020 as the cutoff. Surely a few more mind boggling items will sneak in before publishing. According to The Guardian in Britain, between March 2018 and April 2019, more than 190 unarmed Palestinian border protestors were killed in Gaza, and another 28,000 injured or wounded, with no outrage or backlash from the United States whatsoever. Despite essentially paying for it, Americans were left in the dark about Israel’s criminal behavior, with any mention of the border protests in the US media somehow taking a pro-Israeli slant. This book continues with examples of Israeli settlers terrorizing Pal- estinian land owners and stealing and destroying Palestinian property. ix x | Preface Make no mistake, with Israeli and American government cooperation, the terror and the theft is institutionally supported. In April 2018, Michael Moore, the hyper-liberal documentarian, once went this far with a tweet: “A documentary filmmaker, Yaser Mur- taja, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Fri. while wearing helmet & vest w/ “PRESS” marked on them. He was filming a nurse, a doctor & a 12-yr-old student who were protesting. I ask the documentary community 2 pls speak up about this travesty.” This was a rare baby step. You’ll hear Moore criticize a lot of right wingers, but even he never dares to cross the line and roundly criticize Israeli policies, even when Palestinians are openly murdered. Fox News, the voice-box for the Trump presidency and the right wing of the Republican Party tweeted: “UN Holds Emergency Meeting on Gaza Clashes” and “Gaza Clashes Leave 7 Dead and Hundreds Injured.” The seven dead and the hundreds injured were Palestinians. Unarmed. “Armed” in this case would have meant teenagers slinging rocks against a nuclear power. “Clashes” are a common fallback term in the US media. It’s so they don’t have to say “unarmed Palestinians were killed by well-armed Israeli soldiers standing hundreds of feet away on the other side of a fence.” Another popular term heard often in the media is Zionist. Networks can assume that Americans don’t know what “Zionist” means. So on the rare occasion that they’ll actually play a clip from an Arab leader, that politician’s edited words will feature something about “evil Zionists.” The oblivious public will think “Crazy Arab. What the hell is he talking about?” What he’s talking about are fanatically religious Jews terrorizing Palestinian land owners, burning their crops, and stealing their land, all under the watchful eye of the Israeli military (the Israel Defense Forces or IDF), the occupiers of what would be Palestine. Zionists are Jews and others who participate in and/or support this general concept, with the ultimate goal of eliminating all hopes Palestinians have for a home- land. They are led by Israel’s head of state, Prime Minister Benjamin Preface | xi (“Bibi”) Netanyahu. Generally speaking, Zionist means Jewish/Israel nationalist, and not all are fanatics. Small problem: In the original United Nations decree that created Israel from a former British-held territory in 1948, it also created the future state of Palestine. Simply put, Israel has its land and has kept its portion of the holy city of Jerusalem, and Palestine has not. The Jews have essentially imprisoned one portion (Gaza Strip) of the Palestin- ian population, while occupying and terrorizing the other portion (the West Bank). Europeans, not just those considered liberals, moderates, or intellec- tuals, speak out regularly about Israel’s occupation and oppression of the Palestinians, as do liberals inside Israel. There are many movements afoot to put an end to the existing apartheid state that has come about as a result of Israel’s policies and plans. It’s closer to home for the Europe- ans, and they are an educated bunch. Americans literally only hear the Israeli perspective or nothing at all. National radio, national television, and national newspaper chains—a great majority of which are owned and run by a grand total of six multi-national companies in the United States—are sympathetic to the Jewish regime’s propaganda. This is regardless of whether the outlet is considered “conservative”, “moderate”, or “liberal”. It is literally a mo- nopoly of the collective mind, the dangerous day-to-day reality of liv- ing in the United States of Israel (US of I). By the way, it was revealed in the summer of 2018 that wealthy Jewish-American interests, apparently led by a gentleman named Adam Milstein, helped fund the Canary Mission website (see chapter 10), a site that blacklists college students and professors in the US who speak out against Israel’s atrocities. These campus dwellers support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. In other words, they suggest boycotting Israeli businesses and prod- ucts, particularly those established on Palestinian land. So in this case, xii | Preface freedom-of-speech equals blacklist, which equals “we’ll make sure you don’t get a job.” Support Israel or starve. Do blacklists of American busi- nessmen and individual media people exist? Hopefully it’s only a short matter of time before we find out. Since Donald Trump took office in early 2017, the Netanyahu gov- ernment in Israel has been doing cartwheels. Just as the scholarly book The Israel Lobby from 2007 represents the most honest and accurate assessment of America-Israel foreign policy, an article in the June 1, 2018 issue of the New Yorker magazine by Adam Entous represents the most robust and detailed description of how these two right-wing Jewish governments (US and Israel) have aligned. Three paragraphs will suffice for a synopsis: Parenthetical [ ] infor- mation is mine, intended for clarification: BY OBAMA’S SECOND term, his aides no longer bothered to mask their frustration with the Israelis. “They were never sincere to their commitment to peace,” Benjamin Rhodes, one of Obama’s closest foreign-policy advisers told me. “They used us as cover, to make it look like they were in a peace process. They were running a play, killing time, waiting out the administration.” Entous