Behind the Iron Curtain: The Truth of the Israeli Occupation in the Middle East (Part 1)

In 1967, following a war between Israel and Syria, Jordan and Egypt (also known as the Six Day War), Israeli military occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Stripe, East Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights. That same year, the United Nations passed Resolution 242, calling for Israel to withdraw from occupied territories. Forty one years later Israel has yet to comply. Currently, three million Palestinians live under illegal Israeli military occupation.

The media portrays the Palestinian militant groups as terrorist. Our government, in support of Israel, promotes this view point to the American people. But what is the real truth behind the Iron Curtain of deception? I have watched several videos concerning this issue. The truth that the mass media does not allow to be shown is astounding. Israeli solders, clad in military fatigues, armed with United States military weapons, rule the Palestinian people with an iron first. During an interview of an Israeli solder, he tells the reporter that “they (Palestinians) use suicide bombers, we use tanks”. The tanks that he was referring to were United States Army M1 Abrams. Israel also has the second largest fleet of F-16’s second to of course the United States. It is known that our government has been a long time supporter of the Israeli nation, supplying them with armaments, money, and “body guard like protection” on a global, political scale. But what the vast majority of Americans do not know is that the American government is supporting the torture, murder, and the violation of the Palestinian people’s civil liberties. The weapons, money and political support that our government gives to Israel have been funding a 41 year occupation of Palestine. The same tyranny that President George W. Bush accused Saddam Hessian of is the same tyranny that he supports in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people is the sole purpose of this occupation. According to reports from BBC, the Israeli government has been moving Jewish families into East Jerusalem. Theses “settlements” are in strict violation of the Geneva Convention. News reporters have been referring to this as what is it; settlements, until pressure was put on the news stations to change the usage of “settlements” to “neighborhoods”. This is just one of the many ways that our government and Israel uses the media to sway American support and sympathy. When reporting about Israeli attacks on Palestinian people, it is portrayed as “self defense” and/or “in retaliation” of Palestinian “attacks”. How can it be self defense when Israel is illegally occupying territories that do not belong to them? But Israel has not only attacked the Palestinian, Egyptians, Jordanians, or the Syrian people during the ‘Six Day War’. Israel military also attacked United States Naval ship U.S.S Liberty.