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February 3, 2006
by Eugene Narrett, Ph.D.
The referent for the following is the first six and half chapters of George Orwell's increasingly timely political novel, "1984," culminating in a sentence that defines the era of mass media and its symbiosis with government: "the past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." Nowhere is this more true than in events pertaining to Israel and to the Jewish people and their very ancient, abundantly documented history in the Promised Land. Today, the day of that forces of the Israeli government destroyed a little neighborhood of nine Jewish homes in Amona in the hills of Binyamin, central Israel, on Jewish-owned land, in a Jewish owned and built and paid for town, this is the way the ethnic cleansing and police brutality, -- that began with a cavalry charge and trampling of unarmed civilians -- was described on American Television. At about 5:06pm on the CBS affiliate in the Boston area, there was about a minute of film coverage that omitted the cavalry charge, trampling and mass beating with clubs. It did include some footage of young people being dragged, beaten and kicked while they were down and not resisting in any way. Also shown were demonstrators atop one of the homes being sprayed ("in order to mark them for identification," the commentator said, no mention of the famous 'caustic substances') and paint being thrown down on police. MK Effie Eitam was on camera (before he was trampled by police horses and evacuated to an intensive care unit). The CBS production unit left in almost 5 seconds of him talking to interviewer, Guy Ratz (more below). Just as he was making a point about the government's needless provocation of violence, he was cut off. The footage cut to an interview with MK Dr. Aryeh Eldad, former chief Medical officer of the IDF (before he had his arm-broken and fainted). His words were not included in the segment. The CBS coverage ended with the camera focused on correspondent Mr. Guy Ratz giving the historical 'facts' of the matter. Those Jews who were protesting the expulsion of Jews from their home in central Israel (about 15 miles from Jerusalem) he identified as "right-wing ultra-nationalists whose cause is increasingly unpopular in Israel." He continued, "we can expect more such scenes as the government has announced it will evacuate from another 30 illegal Jewish outposts [sic] in the coming months." End of CBS segment. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." Nothing about Jewish ownership of the land in question, nothing about the land being inside an existing town, about the permits acquired and those that have been awaited for years; nothing of course about the 'ancient history' of transjordan's illegal and violent seizure of this land in 1948: of course, the past has been erased and the erasure almost completely forgotten by people who follow "the news" which by definition wants nothing to do with what is 'old.' On CNN, lo and behold, there is the delightful Mr. Raz again, doing double duty against his people and getting a temporary seat at the table by being a mouthpiece for the party line of the New World Order. I did not see the very beginning of the segment, nor hear all of it. But it featured Mr. Ratz speaking against a backdrop of the burning buildings, of civilians besieged on roofs and being hosed and thrown down by police. Protestors protecting the home were jumping from a first story window. As they jumped, each one was photographed by an IDF officer with a small camera before being grabbed and hustled away. Once again, the nightsticks were flailing. Mr. Raz's comments for CNN's audience on "the violent disturbance" was that the Jewish protestors "had built homes on Palestinian owned land, the government said," and that their "illegal outposts would have to be dismantled." No mention was made of the hundreds of illegal Arab buildings within a radius of a few hundred yards of the site. No,... Mr. Raz was smiling. The penultimate chapter of Herman Melville's great novella, "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a brief, one-page official government history of the tragic events in the story, the entrapment and judicial murder of Billy Budd, exemplary sailor and Englishman aboard the HMS Bellipotent through the deceits of John Claggart and the tortured reasoning of the good but ineffectual Captain Vere. Melveille's point is that the truths of history are buried, as deeply as Billy's body was sunk into the sea. But also that deep in the sea, a song, addressing the issues very indirectly continues to be audible to those who are listening. One hopes that those who are listening to the song of Amona as it was deep-sixed and as Jews defending Jewish homes in Israel were beaten by robots of the NWO will continue to make the true context of its voice, its harmonies heard. The big lies being circulated about Jews and Israel are becoming more and more like a not so recent time in history about which they used to say, "never again" and that largely inspired Orwell's novel. Postscript This is postscript # 1 (there probably will be more) on the riot today by Israeli police in the Jewish town of Amona. By ordering this riot, Ehud Olmert discredited himself from holding any office, escape perhaps a jail cell, in any non-Islamic nation. Remind us: did he really invoke "the rule of law" in ordering the savage, police riot? This is a favorite rhetorical stroke of despots and desperados: William J. Clinton was fond of it. During the 1950s, '60s, and 1970s, when the "civil rights" movement and anti-Vietnam war movements were in bloom, the media scrutinized closely any signs of police violence. Hitting unarmed civilians with night sticks, turning fire hoses on them, or riding them down with horses led to banner front page headlines, searing editorial condemnations, the fall of many politicians and a radical reversal of American politics. There was never violence in managing or suppressing these protests like that deployed today by the minions of the interim government in Israel. Indiscriminate beating of protestors, many of whom made no effort to resist police, some of whom offered to leave the site immediately, trampling of civilians by police on horses, which is lethal force, kicking, punching, and beating with clubs of protestors already held face down on the ground, stealing the property of civilians, -- these all are criminal acts by criminals serving a criminal regime whose main agenda, aside from winning votes from haters of Judaism and Jews, is still defined as treason in Israel's legal code. But in a regime of criminals, such a code has little meaning except to condemn the innocent. In July 2005, Member of the Knesset, the distinguished Doctor Aryeh Eldad was standing on a sidewalk handing out leaflets explaining reasons to oppose the expulsion of Jews from their homes in Gush Katif. Eldad was taken to jail for this and reported that while there, police told him that if he continued these activities, he "wouldn't be able to use his hand for months." Today they made 'good' on their mafia-like threat: while standing by the houses in Amona, let us say it again, Jewish bought and owned houses, Dr. Eldad had his hand broken. The thugs who did this, and those who delivered the warning in July should be apprehended, sentenced for violence and incitement to violence, and deep-sixed. If the interim government was not itself a criminal regime composed mainly of criminals (after today, they all are criminals) they would be. As it is, promotions are more likely. That's what the state of Peres and Olmert a state mid-wifed by Clinton, both Bushes, and their diplomats is: a regime where one gets promoted by beating and breaking Jews who oppose expelling Jews from their homes and creating Judenrein areas in Israel. In spring 1819, in the north of England, at Peterloo near Manchester, a large assembly of English men and women gathered to protest unemployment, low wages and other issues, were charged by cavalry. Many were injured, though far fewer than the civilians injured today at Amona. The police/military violence against civilians sparked extreme outrage in Britain that might have led to civil war if the government had not begun a process that led to major reforms in labor conditions and protection, in extending the suffrage, and in controlling police. It's up to Israelis to disseminate full coverage of what the junta of Peres-Olmert did today to Jews in Amona (while ignoring tens of thousands of illegal arab buildings in Israel). Israel can change from its anti-Jewish, spurning of the birthright path if the Jews make this a rallying cry. Where are the lawyers to indict Olmert who publicly and repeatedly incited deadly force against the Jews? The British, whose descendants betrayed the Jews to death, were up to outrage and resistance and regime change. Are Jews whose backs are against the wall also so able and willing? Dr. Eugene Narrett is a writer and teacher in Massachusetts and is the author of Gathered Against Jerusalem: Essays on a False Peace (Dec. 2000). His book, Israel Awakened: A Chronicle of the Oslo War (2001), is currently available at www.1stbooks.com/bookview/7421.
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