After massacring sixty civilians, and injuring hundreds of others in the village of Qana, Lebanon, Israel claimed the act was the fault of Hezbollah guerrillas, who had been firing rockets from the apartment buildings targeted by Israeli aircraft. After a Red Cross investigation determined that these claims were false, and demanded solid proof, the Olmert Regime was forced to admit that there were, indeed, no rockets in Qana. The media, with one voice, repeated the rather benign claim that Israel had "made a mistake" in making these allegations. However, for two days immediately following the attack, Israel released video which it said showed Hezbollah rockets flying from the buildings in question, towards Israel.

This demonstrates that there was no such "mistake", but that Israel faked evidence, and knowingly LIED about the incident, in order to escape condemnation for this horrific act, and disguise the fact that the Israeli military targets civilians, in order to drive people from areas Israel plans to occupy, and minimize Resistance to the planned Occupation.

Knowing of this conscious and willful deception, Canadians must consider similar, empty allegations made after the Israeli Air Force destroyed a United Nations post with precision bombs, killing several observers, including one Canadian. We must also condemn the Harper Government's sycophantic support of Israel, due to Harper's alliance with the Bush Regime.

If we are ever to witness a real and lasting peace throughout the Middle East, we must come to terms with Zionist Extremism, the violent, supremacist Ideology guiding the efforts of the people currently in power in Israel, and their Lobby Organizations here in the West. This is no different than any other form of Extremism we are told these wars are about confronting - except for one big difference - Zionist Extremists control the world's fifth largest military, are backed by the "world's only superpower", and actually make war on their neighbours.

We must acknowledge Zionism's bloody past, and its part in creating this conflict upon its arrival to the region from Europe sixty years ago. We must condemn the actions of this Rogue State, and rally against those in our own corridors of power who condone these acts of State Terrorism.

And from the looks of things, we'd better do this soon.

Jordan Thornton
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