Letters to the Editor, February 5, 2005

I especially like the part about the # 3 at the Pentagon: Douglas Feith

I especially like the part about the # 3 at the Pentagon. Newsweek/msnbc.com "And Now a Mole" Sept 6." Franklin was known to be one of a tightly knit group of pro-Israel hawks in the Pentagon associated with his immediate superior, William Luti, the hard-charging and impassioned protegé of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East affairs, Luti was a key player in planning the Iraq war. He, in turn, works in the office of Under Secretary Douglas Feith, a career lawyer who, before becoming the Pentagon's No. 3, was a sometime consultant for Likud, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's political party. Officials say they have no evidence that either Feith or Luti had any knowledge of Franklin's discussions with the Israelis."

Maybe "we're" dying to protect their "Zionist Squatters." And at the same time screwing up our old relations with those who supplied our oil in past wars and peace time. Did the Zionists maneuver in to the position we're in today to fight their big wars for Middle East control?

The # 3 at the Pentagon being a Political Consultant for Sharon is a little much. As you cannot serve two masters, Is he a fiduciary for of our troops in the Field, or the Zionist dreams? The magazine also said Franklin was posted at the U.S. Embassy in. Tel Aviv. There are also reports he made visits back to spy land.

If we we're smart we would have liberated both Iraq and Palestine, and our troops would have received flowers.

Thank You,

Ronald Douglas Kennedy, USA.

Election sham in Palestine

Press proclamations aside, there was no "historic expression of democracy" taking place in the January 9 election for a new president of the Palestinian Authority. What was happening was a sham — just like the U.S.-engineered travesty that installed Karzai in Afghanistan and the farce that will soon crown Allawi in Iraq. Long before voting day in Palestine, the U.S., Britain and Israel decreed candidate Mahmoud Abbas quite acceptable. Their efforts helped him get international publicity and unrestricted access to West Bank and Gaza voters. The other major candidate, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, a human rights activist and founder of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, was detained for hours at several checkpoints during the campaign and was beaten and harassed by Israeli soldiers. A 17-year-old volunteer was shot dead as he put up Barghouthi posters in a Gaza refugee camp. And in Jerusalem, Israel allowed only 5,000 of the 120,000 voters to cast their ballots.

There’s a reason Abbas was favored by the powers-that-be. He coauthored the 1993 Oslo Accords that created the Palestinian Authority, whose job is to police the Palestinians for the Israelis. He also coauthored the 1995 Beilin-Abu Mazen Understanding, which, had it been signed, would have rescinded Palestinians’ right of return to Israel and accepted permanent Jewish settlements on Palestinian land. He opposes all armed resistance against Israel. In Baqa'a Camp, Jordan, Nadia al-Jundi of the Jordanian Women’s Federation said it perfectly. "Mahmoud Abbas is the spice of the meal that was prepared by Israeli cooks in the American kitchen." Abbas is just the man for the occupiers’ job.

Monica Hill

Freedom Socialist newspaper