Israel Is Behind It All...Again
As the bombing disaster early this week is cemented into people's consciousness, three emotions dominate: anger, ambivalence about the U.S. role in Iraq and a desire to lay blame at the door of adversaries rather than fellow Muslims.
"I am sure that the people who did this are enemies of Iraq, not the enemies of the Americans," Dunya Khalil Ismail, a 28-year-old college lecturer, said as she left work Wednesday. "Whether it was the Israelis or the Americans themselves, they are aiming at us.
"It started with the war, and this is just another stage," she said. "I don't know what can be done. The Americans have everything in their hands."
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The alternative view — that Israel and the U.S. want an Iraqi partner rather than a subject, and have much to gain from this country becoming stable — is often greeted with a dismissive shake of the head.
Get more of this "theory" from the "fair and balanced" LA Times.
Matt's Chat
This woman does not represent the majority of Iraqis. Her viewpoint, while it does have a certain logic to it, is faulty. Either Israel runs the world or we do, which is it? You can't have both. And the LA Times can't make both arguments either.The truth is, while some may still not believe it, we went in to Iraq to protect our interests and to liberate Iraq from a terrible regime. Israel has enough to deal with (you know, all those Palestinians blowing themselves up in suicide bombings) to waste time with Iraq. While we're on the subject, suicide bombings aren't Israel's modus operandi. Which groups and nations undertake actions like the suicide bombing of the Red Cross and the UN? Let me answer that for you, friends...Islamic extremists do that. Israel can be called many things, but terrorists isn't one of them. And we would never employ such tactics because quite frankly, we're not that good at blowing ourselves up for no apparent reason. We live life too well to do that.
Specifically, the attacks carried out the day of the Red Cross bombing were of the scope and complexity of an Al Queda operation. Coordinated attacks like that are the signature of Osama bin Laden. I have no evidence to support that position, but it makes more sense than blaming Israel or the United States. Surely, the LA Times could figure that out.
Mark's Remarks
I wonder if this woman and Ted Kennedy, and the Prime Minister of Malaysia are all pals, or write fiction together...this is ridiculous. If the US and Israel really ruled the world, would we really care about mid-East peace? Would we be telling Israel to calm its movements, would we be trying to get a Palestinian state created peacefully? Would we care about who we attack in Iraq? I don't think so. HOwever, we have gone out of our way to only attack imminent threats to our men in Iraq, not wholesale slaughter of the people. If the US and Israel controlled the world, why then would we even bother with going to the UN and asking permission? The whole argument, along with Kennedy's and the Malaysian prime minister's lack logic, reason, and indicates to me more than a spark of irrationality.
The sad part is, the LA Times reports this mindless conspiracy theory, but then gives lip service to the real culprits: Muslim terrorists. Muslim folks, in Iraq, around the world: WAKE UP!!! It is not Zionists, Israelis, or infidels that are killing your fellow Muslims by the truckload, it are fellow muslims who have perverted your faith, who have twisted the words of Allah into a hate filled message. The United States had nothing to do with suicide killers, and will have nothing to do with them, other than try to stop them and prevent them. Why can't you see what is going on? Are you so unwilling to confront these animals who pervert your faith that you are willing to see more and more bloodshed? Come on......
