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Michael Tee:
from counterpunch today - -
October 6, 2006

Gunning Down Itemad Ismail Abu Mo'ammar

Just Another Mother Murdered
By ALISON WEIR

Almost no one bothered to report it. A search of the nation's largest newspapers turned up nothing in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, Tampa Tribune, etc.

There was nothing on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, NPR, Fox News. Nothing.

The LA Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Associated Press each had one sentence, at most, telling about her. All three left out the details, the LA Times had her age significantly off, and the Washington Post reported that she had been killed by an Israeli tank shell.

It hadn't been a tank shell that had killer her, according to witnesses. It had been bullets, multiple ones, fired up close.

Neighbors report that Israeli soldiers had been beating her husband because he wasn't answering their questions. Foolishly or valiantly, how is one to say, the 35-year-old woman had interfered. She tried to explain that her husband was deaf, screamed at the soldiers that her husband couldn't hear them and attempted to stop them from hitting him. So they shot her. Several times.

Her name was Itemad Ismail Abu Mo'ammar.

She didn't die, though. That took longer. It required her life to flow out of her in the form of blood for several hours, as Israeli soldiers refused to allow an ambulance to transport her to help. Her husband and children could do nothing to save her.

Finally, after approximately five hours, an ambulance was allowed to take her to a hospital, where physicians were able to render one service: pronounce her dead, a few days before the commencement of Ramadan, a season of family gatherings much like the Christmas season for Americans. She left 11 children. None of this was in the Washington Post story, which had reported her death in one half of one sentence.

Her husband's brother, who lived in the same house, was also killed. He was a 28-year-old farmer.

Why did this all happen? The family lived behind a resistance fighter wanted by Israel. They were simply "collateral damage" in a failed Israeli assassination/kidnapping operation.

All together, five Palestinians were killed that day. The other three were young shepherds killed in another area, two 15 years old and one 14, who seem to have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Gaza.

None of this was reported in most of America's news media, and so the American public never learned about a mother bleeding to death in front of her children, or young shepherds being blown to pieces. Apparently, it just wasn't newsworthy.

BT:
The actions of Israeli soldiers are now official actions of the US Government?

Or is it just another convenient excuse to hate?

Michael Tee:
You mean if .it was an official action of the US government, the victims would hate the USA, but if it wasn't an official action, the victims would be OK with it?

People aren't that stupid.  They can make the connection and they blame the US.  The US supports Israel.  Israeli soldiers murdered their mother.  They hate the US.

Look at it another way.  Taliban supports al Qaeda.  Al Qaeda knocks down the Twin Towers.  Washington hates Taliban.

Really isn't all that complex, is it?

BT:
I think i understand your logic.

A friend's father was shot in cold blood during a robbery in New Orleans by a black man.

Therefore i should hate jews because they supported blacks in the civil rights movement.

That how it works?

Michael Tee:
<<I think i understand your logic.  A friend's father was shot in cold blood during a robbery in New Orleans by a black man.  Therefore i should hate jews because they supported blacks in the civil rights movement.

<<That how it works?>>

No, not really.

Try to pick an example that corresponds a little more to the problem we're actually discussing.  If for example, the Jews had not only supported the black civil rights movement, but had armed and financially supported a gang of blacks who were forcing whites out of a white neighbourhood, taking over their homes and moving in.  If the black man who shot your friend's father was a member of that gang, and the man he shot was one of the residents of that neighbourhood.  If the black gang would not have been able to take on the white neighbourhood at all if the Jews had not been supporting them with billions of dollars in money and weapons every year, giving them the means to attack the whites in the area.

THAT'S how it works.

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