Re: I think you took my criticisms of Israelis to mean that I hold similar views. I do not. I believe the Israelis are far from innocent in the Palestinian mess but I...
...shall never cross the line and go as far as suggesting that some of the terrorism that plagues us is actually perpetrated by American and Israeli Judeofascists --be they government operatives or rogues... Please, don't underestimate my wits to make out other people's intellectual boundaries --what I once called their "mental horizon". Your so-called "criticism of Israel(is)" is much more commonplace than you think. Of course, it sticks out as a maverick opinion on SI because most, if not all, SI threads dealing with Israel and the Mideast have been hijacked by far-right, Zionist mouthpieces. However, yours is a middle-of-the-road opinion shared by millions of Americans and Europeans (and others) who likewise split the blame evenhandedly between Israel and the Palestinians --yet stop short of accusing Israel (and its US patron) of fomenting false-flag terrorist attacks worldwide....
Somehow, it merely demonstrates that the media-military complex's relentless brainwashing has been successful (with you). I mean, just take the issue of Iraq's kidnapping wave. In late 2003 and throughout 2004, we've been awash with news about contractors, journalists, NGO workers, and diplomats abducted by Iraqi (and Afghan) insurgents. Hence public opinion was manipulated into believing that only "ugly Arabs, Muslims, Chechens" were capable of such barbaric, often bloody, misdeeds. But who told Joe Six-Pack that the country that ranks first in the kidnapping trade is nextdoor Mexico? Clue:
According to Canto, who referred to a Kroll study, in 2003 Mexico ranked number two in Latin America with 3,000 kidnappings, second only to Colombia where 4,000 such crimes were committed. He added that 50 percent of all kidnappings worldwide are in Latin America.
A representative of the Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, José Antonio Ortega Sánchez, said in the same Reforma piece that murders resulting from kidnappings have become commonplace in many areas of Mexico. On a national basis, Ortega has also said that reported deaths from kidnappings since 1996 total 162, with the annual figures getting progressively larger.
It should be noted that many kidnappings go unreported in Mexico. According to studies by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, over 90 percent of kidnappings are not reported to authorities due to faithlessness in police and government officials.
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Re: ...but I do not see an Israeli behind every Machiavellian plot and bombing. Sorry.
So do I. Again, you suffer from "tunnel vision"... You talk of "every Machiavellian plot and bombing" yet, implicitly and tacitly, you only allude to deadly plots and bomings occurring in the West, namely, the US and Europe. Not a month, not a week, almost not a day, passes without a newsbreak about some terrorist outrage in Kashmir, Sri Lanka (like the assassination of a State Secretary), Colombia (FARC), Nepal, Chechnya, Georgia/Caucasus, Thailand, etc. Not to mention IRA and ETA. You could at least give me credit for not blaming Mossad and Israel for all of the above! If, as you cunningly keep claiming, I were a rabid anti-Semite, I would make up theories upon theories, however conspiratorial and convoluted, to connect all the dots, to link all the bombings in Colombia, Kashmir, Belfast, Sri Lanka, etc. to Israel and its ubiquitous tentacles.... But such is not my purpose: I'm well aware that the purview of my "geopolitical rantings" encompasses Europe, the US and the Mideast, and when I claim that Israel and the US are likely the mastermind of several terrorist bombings I know that I'm not dealing with ALL of the world's terrorism --as you wrongly surmised.
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