Two stories were in the news recently (although not the mainstream news). One story describes a new sadistic "game" that Israeli soldiers were playing. The soldiers would taunt Palestinian children over loudspeakers. When children "took the bait" and began throwing rocks at the distant Israeli soldiers and their loudspeakers, the soldiers would open fire with real weapons and snuff out some of these young opponents. The second story tells of Israel demanding more money from the U.S. Perhaps they think they should be paid for killing children.

The story about Israeli troops taunting and shooting children was told by New York Times reporter Chris Hedges. Hedges' story appeared on a non-mainstream web site (Ref. 1) and the most shocking part appears below:

"And I walked out towards the dunes and... over the loudspeaker from an Israeli army Jeep on the other side of the electric fence they were taunting these kids. And these kids started to throw rocks. And most of these kids were 10, 11, 12 years old. And, first of all, the rocks were the size of a fist. They were being hurled towards a Jeep that was armor-plated. I doubt they could even hit the Jeep. And then I watched the soldiers open fire. And it was--I mean, I've seen kids shot in Sarajevo. I mean, snipers would shoot kids in Sarajevo. I've seen death squads kill families in Algeria or El Salvador. But I'd never seen soldiers bait or taunt kids like this and then shoot them for sport."

Only a few weeks ago Israeli soldiers shot two pregnant Palestinian women and killed the husband of one of the women. (Ref. 2) Those shootings resulted in a sharp increase in violence as outraged Palestinians retaliated. Naturally no mainstream news outlets blamed Israeli atrocities for the worsening situation. More recently, an Israeli tank shot at and destroyed a vehicle, killing a woman and her three children. (Ref. 3) These horrendous atrocities combined with the report of Israeli soldiers provoking and then shooting to death Palestinian children should bring world-wide condemnation of Israel. Instead, the U.S. government is debating the size of an INCREASE in aid to Israel. (Ref. 4)

Israel already gets three billion dollars per year from the U.S. A conservative estimate of the total military aid to Israel comes to 91 billion dollars. (Ref. 5) This didn't stop the Israelis from asking for even more. The Israelis have requested the "modest" sum of 800 million dollars in addition to the usual three billion this year.

The annual aid to Egypt should be added to the aid to Israel when determining how much Israel costs America. Egypt is paid 2.5 billion dollars per year by the U.S. to stay on friendly relations with Israel. (One can imagine the parents of a wretched, misbehaved child similarly paying another child to be his friend.) Does any American (aside from the Jews and lapdog mainstream politicians) want 5.5 billion dollars every year being spent on Israel? We could fund a long list of desperately needed projects right here in America with that sort of money. It looks like our politicians will probably give the Israelis 200 million dollars in additional aid instead of the 800 million. (So all the Israelis have to do in future negotiations is multiply what they want by four.)

If any other nation besides Israel, had an equally bad human rights records and an arrogant, openly racist government that clearly supported a policy of genocide, it would be condemned by all the civilized nations in the world. Unfortunately the Jews control our mass media and our politicians. Israeli atrocities against women and children are routinely censored from the mainstream press, and no mainstream politicians are brave enough to call the Israelis "war criminals." Not only are our political leaders too cowardly to condemn Israel, they will mostly likely vote an additional 200 million dollars in foreign aid basically rewarding Israel for killing women and children.

1). Excerpts: NPR Interview of Chris Hedges
http://64.226.129.19/pmw/manager/features/display_message.asp?mid=487

2). Palestinian Woman Suicide Bomber Vowed Revenge
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020228/wl_nm/mideast_bomber_dc_5

3). Israelis Murder Palestinian Family: Mother and three children
http://www.hoffman-info.com/palestine46.html

4). U.S. said to reject new aid for Israel
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=141467&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

5). A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion—and Counting
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/010201/0101015.html