Hypocrites-in-Chiefs


Throughout the history almost every religion, every philosopher, every 
thinker, every historian, and nearly every Wiseman has feverishly 
abhorred hypocrisy and detested it more often and with more passion 
than any other behavior.
 
Almost 3,000 years ago, Homer said, "I detest that man, who hides one 
thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another." Jesus of 
Nazareth had such an abomination of hypocrisy that he said the 
hypocrites "have neglected the more important matters of the law-
justice, mercy and faithfulness" (Matthew 23:23). Shakespeare also gave 
some insight into the underpinnings of hypocrisy, "With devotion's 
visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
 
Ironically, the true hypocrites never think of themselves to be 
hypocritical; therefore, they say one thing and do another with 
impunity and especially with pride. The same is also true with today?s 
global leadership, led by the likes of U.S President George Bush, 
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the Israeli government. 
 
We carry such short memories, that it wasn?t even couple of months 
after the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which resulted in the 
massacre of over 1,200 Lebanese citizens, all was forgotten and 
forgiven. It was during this instance of, often seen, Israeli barbarism 
new standards of hypocrisy were set by the self-proclaimed saviors of 
humanity. 
 
HYPOCRISY: With the complete blessings and support of the U.S and U.K, 
all hell was set loose on Lebanon and Palestine by the Israelis, 
because 3 Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. In reality, the so-called 
moral leaders have never uttered a word over the countless abductions 
and targeted assassinations of dozens of democratically elected 
Lebanese and Palestinian legislators and officials. On August 19, 2006, 
Israel seized Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser al-Shaer, a top 
official of the Hamas militant group, at his home in the occupied West 
Bank. Not a word is wasted over the illegal and immoral incarceration 
of countless Lebanese and Palestinian civilians still rotting in 
Israeli dungeons. Not a single word is said over the collective 
punishment of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. 
HYPOCRITE: President Bush showed his real colors when he said, ?this 
nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to 
destroy those of us who love freedom.? And with this racially-charged 
hypocritical outburst he belittled and generalized over 1.4 billion 
humans or 1/5 of humanity. But his racist comments beg even more 
questions. Whose ?freedoms? was he referring to? Did he mean Israel?s 
?freedom? to violate international laws by freely embarking on 
Lebanese/Arab genocides, or it?s ?freedom? to legislate racist laws? Or 
did President Bush mean the ?freedom? of neo-con doctrine of pre-
emptive attacks on sovereign nations like the one on Iraq, in which, 
since the U.S occupation 60,000-500,000 Iraqis and close to 3,500 
Americans have been killed? The reality is, in 2006, President Bush 
openly and unapologetically supported the bloodbath of Lebanese and 
Palestinians, and still turns blind eye to the daily massacres of Iraqi 
civilians. If there is anyone who deserves to be known as a ?fascist?, 
it?s him, his neo-con hawks, his lackeys like Tony Blair, and the 
Zionist groupies who blame everyone else but themselves for their 
indiscriminate and unabashed murders of thousands upon thousands of 
Muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. Remarkably, it 
took them only less than 5 years to preside over all of these pogroms. 
The manner in which these saviors of the world are busy maligning 
Muslims can be directly collated to Adolph Hitler's deliberate 
vilification of Jews prior to World War II. 
HYPOCRISY: Israel and Bush Administration arduously justified the 
destruction of Lebanon and the massacres of its people, under the 
pretext of, the Lebanese supposedly violated the UN Security Council?s 
(UNSC) resolution 1559. In reality, the resolution 1559 called upon 
?all remaining foreign forces [including Israeli] to withdraw from 
Lebanon.? In a direct violation of the resolution, Israel never vacated 
the Lebanese territory of Shebaa-Farms. Therefore, it had no legal or 
moral right to cry foul, especially when it had flagrantly violated 60 
other UNSC resolutions relating to Israeli-Lebanese situation alone 
(see Appendix - A for the complete list). Hypocrites need to be 
cognizant of the fact that Israel violated UNSC resolution 425 (1978) 
for twenty two years. The resolution called upon the ?Israel 
immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese territorial 
integrity and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese 
territory?. In an appearance on CNN?s ?Paula Zahn Now?, the Lebanese 
consul general to the U.S Mohamad El-Harake shared his frustrations 
with the American hypocritical support of Israel at the UN Security 
Council. He said, ?Let me tell you one thing before we finish. Israel 
took 22 years to implement Resolution 524, adopted in '78, to inviting 
Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Israel couldn't wait for 
1559 adopted on the 2nd of September, less than two years, giving us 
the possibility of implementing this among ourselves as Lebanese. This 
is the way Israel wants to see a strong Lebanon?? Hypocrites need to be 
cognizant of the fact that Israel violated UNSC resolution 425 (1978) 
for twenty two years. The resolution called upon the ?Israel 
immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese territorial 
integrity and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese 
territory?. In an appearance on CNN?s ?Paula Zahn Now?, the Lebanese 
consul general to the U.S Mohamad El-Harake shared his frustrations 
with the American hypocritical support of Israel at the UN Security 
Council. He said, ?Let me tell you one thing before we finish. Israel 
took 22 years to implement Resolution 524, adopted in '78, to inviting 
Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Israel couldn't wait for 
1559 adopted on the 2nd of September, less than two years, giving us 
the possibility of implementing this among ourselves as Lebanese. This 
is the way Israel wants to see a strong Lebanon?? 
HYPOCRITES: Some of Evangelical Christians shamelessly support Israel 
in its brutality because they believe, for the biblical prophecies (The 
Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 38) to come true and to prepare for the Second 
Coming of Jesus, Israel will have to annihilate its Arab neighbors. A 
2003 Pew Research Centre poll found that 36 percent of Americans 
believe that the creation of the state of Israel was a step towards the 
Second Coming of Jesus and that Israel must be supported if this was to 
come true. In reality, what these religious zealots fail to mention is 
that the same prophetic literature prophesies a dim ending for the 
Jews, who will be either converted or killed off in Armageddon. 
HYPOCRITES: American Zionists proudly send their children to Israel to 
get military training and to kill Arabs. American-media gives a 
flattering treatment to the American Zionists who join the Israeli 
Defense Forces (IDF) to fight the Arabs. They are revered as brave 
heroes. In reality, most of these heroes live in America, but they 
enlist only with the Israeli military. Not so surprisingly, the same 
media stereotypes the American Muslims as anti-American, even if they 
dare to participate in the humanitarian relief efforts for Lebanese and 
Palestinian civilians. 
HYPOCRITES: During the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, on hourly 
bases, the vigilant American-media gave the latest count of Katyushas 
fired on Israel. In reality, Israel rained hundred times more weapons 
on Lebanon. The American-media never counted the Israeli cluster bombs, 
missiles, motors, rockets, and shells dropped by the Israelis on the 
hapless Lebanese civilians. 
HYPOCRITES: The American and Jewish (Amerco-Jewish) news media 
eulogized and deciphered each shrapnel, every ball bearing, and every 
patch of grass of Israeli manicured lawns burned by the Hezbollah 
rockets. In reality, whenever a non-American or non-Israel media outlet 
showed pictorial proof of the Israeli brutality or Lebanese carnage, 
the Amerco-Jewish media hypocritically cried bloody-Marie and blamed 
the non-Amerco-Jewish media for inciting hatred against Israelis and 
instantly labeled them as anti-Semite. 
HYPOCRITES: Amerco-Jewish news media claims to be fair and balanced. 
In reality, 90 percent of times, they ever so shamelessly, broadcasted 
a parade of ultra-Jewish diplomats who expectedly squarely blamed the 
Lebanese civilians for becoming victims of Israeli weapons. After the 
infamous 1982 massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Jewish lobbies setup 
permanent institutional structures to sanitize its tarnished image and 
to win world opinion. Israel launched Hasbara project to win the U.S 
public opinion and trained its diplomats in public relations and 
communications. To cover-up its outed dirty secrets, Israel hired the 
largest U.S PR firms like NYPR to court favorable American public 
opinion. The Jewish propaganda machine put together groups and 
organizations with catchy names to marshal American support for the 
Israeli fascist policies. Americans for safe Israel, Christian 
coalition, Christian Broadcasting Network, American Jewish Congress, 
Christian Friends of Israel, Jews for Jesus, and AIPAC (American 
Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful foreign lobby) are 
the most active organizations that remain busy with cloaking Israeli 
dirty deeds with an image of a pristine nation obsessed with 
humanitarian works. Then there are organizations like CAMERA (Committee 
for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America). CAMERA, through its 
persistent harassment of journalists, ensures that media coverage 
remains pro-Israel. 
HYPOCRISY: Israel and American government place themselves at the 
highest pedestal of morality and for the respect of law. In realty, the 
Human Rights Watch said the responsibility for the massacre in Qana 
rested "squarely with the Israeli military." Whenever Israelis killed 
the UN personnel, Red-Cross workers, or Lebanese civilians; the 
Israelis, Bush Administration, and the American-media nonchalantly 
dismissed the deliberate killings as accidents; even better, they 
blamed the Lebanese for bringing Israeli wrath upon themselves. 
HYPOCRISY: Despite displacing 1 million and massacring over 1,200 
Lebanese civilians during the first month of Israeli savage attack, it?
s the Israelis that were portrayed as the victim by the Israelis, Bush 
Administration and the American-media. In reality, during the fighting 
116 Israeli soldiers and only 43 Israeli civilians were killed. Israel 
massacred close to 28 Lebanese civilians for each Israeli civilian 
lost. 
HYPOCRITE: In his comments, on July 31, 2006, President Bush said he 
wanted more than a ceasefire. "We want there to be a long-lasting 
peace, one that is sustainable." The reality is President Bush has 
blood of over 1,200 Palestinians and Lebanese on his hands. The Bush 
administration has ridiculed and stalled every peace effort, including 
Security Council ceasefire resolutions that could have saved innocent 
lives of hundreds of Lebanese civilians. If that wasn?t bad enough, his 
administration donated $210 million worth of aviation fuel to ensure 
that Israeli F-16s do not skip a beat in dropping bombs on Lebanese 
population, and expedited the supply of precision-guided bunker buster 
bombs for Israel to hasten the Lebanese holocaust. One such Made-in-
America precision-guided bomb dropped from an Israeli F-16 massacred 54 
Lebanese civilians in Qana, of which half were blossoming children. 
HYPOCRISY: Israel claimed it warned the Lebanese civilians beforehand 
to leave. In reality, before sending out the warning, Israelis also 
ensured every route leading out of Southern Lebanon laid in ruins. They 
also made sure that every escaping vehicle, every civilian convoy 
flying white flags, every UN personnel carrier escorting the civilians, 
and every Red-Cross ambulance rescuing the civilians from the Israeli 
murderous campaign didn?t escape intact. Kenneth Roth, executive 
director of Human Rights Watch said, "Just because the Israeli military 
warned the civilians? to leave does not give it carte blanche to 
blindly attack." Israeli fire was also directly responsible for the 
cold-blooded murders of 257 UN personnel. 
HYPOCRITES: American politicians and Media diligently harp on Israel 
being the most reliable ally and partner. In reality, the partnership 
had been largely one way, in favor of Israel. To date, Israel has 
received well over $110 billion FREE dollars in military and economic 
assistance from Washington. 
HYPOCRITES: American politicians and Media proudly call Israel to be 
its closest ally. In reality, Israelis have never shied away from 
shedding American blood whenever it suited them. On June 8, 1967, while 
patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 
without any warning or justification, for several hours, the USS 
Liberty (AGTR-5) was savagely attacked by Israeli air and naval forces. 
The Americans suffered 34 fatalities and 173 were wounded. To this day, 
not a single Israeli has been court marshaled or punished for 
deliberately slaughtering Americans. 
HYPOCRITES: Israel and the U.S complain to no end that Hezbollah is 
armed by Iran and Syria. In reality, Israel has received 17 billion 
dollars of arms from the United States in last 10 years alone. In 2002, 
U.S gave $6 billion free aid to Israel. $2 billion were for Israel to 
buy American made weapons. $1.5 billion for military ventures to 
subsidize Israeli domestic armament industry. This amount doesn?t 
include other forms of military aid, such as free weapons and fuel for 
IDF. 
HYPOCRITES: Pro-Israeli media repeatedly flashed Israeli propaganda 
videos showing infrared videos of firings of the so-called Hezbollah 
rockets as the Israeli spokespeople hammered their propaganda. In 
reality, the pro-Israeli media consistently failed to provide a neutral 
and reliable confirmation to support the Israeli propaganda. Experts 
familiar with Israeli tactics believed the alleged videos of Hezbollah 
rocket launches were the Oscar-Award winning self-engineered videos of 
the Israeli psych-ops (an Israeli military unit tasked to control and 
dominate the dissemination of information in favor of Israel, even 
through deceit and lies). 
HYPOCRISY: The UN bullied by the U.S conveniently found time during 
the Israeli invasion to pass a Security Council resolution to threaten 
Iran with sanctions. In reality, the UN couldn?t muster enough courage 
to even request Israel to temporarily halt Lebanese genocide, so the 
Lebanese could have buried the rotting bodies of their loved ones. 
HYPOCRITES: Israel and the U.S call Hezbollah a terrorist 
organization. In reality, survey after survey show that most of the 
world views Israel to be a terrorist state. With the exceptions of the 
U.S, Israel and their lackeys the Britain, no one else calls Hezbollah 
a terrorist organization, not even the UN or EU does. 
HYPOCRITES: Israel argues, since Hezbollah emerged from and flourishes 
with the help Southern Lebanese population, therefore, everyone from 
that area should be considered and dealt as a combatant. In reality, 
almost every able Israeli adult either serves or has served, or is a 
reservist in the Israeli military. Therefore, by Israelis? logic, every 
Israeli adult associated with the IDF should also be treated as 
legitimate combatant. 
HYPOCRISY: Israeli government arms the Jewish settlers in occupied 
settlements with automatic guns and grenades for the supposed self-
defense. In reality, the Jewish settlers mount vigilante attacks on the 
unarmed Palestinians. They destroy crops, uproot trees, and burn the 
homes of Palestinians who happened to be living there for last hundreds 
of years. 
HYPOCRITE: The U.S presents itself as a fair and honest broker. In 
reality, between 1973 and 2001, the U.S used veto 33 times at the UN 
Security Council to sabotage Israel-specific resolutions. In addition, 
since the 1967 Six-Day Arab-Israeli war, the U.S has exercised its veto 
at the Security Council more than 90 times in support of Israel, 
rendering the UN totally impotent. 
HYPOCRITES: Bush and his poodle Blair never get tired lecturing the 
whole world on the virtues of democracy. In reality, they demand the 
Lebanese and Palestinians to exercise their democratic rights by 
electing only the candidates desired by the Tel-Aviv and Washington. 
Since the democratically elected Lebanese and Palestinian governments 
are not run by the puppets of Tel-Aviv and Washington, monetary aid for 
public (including humanitarian) projects for the Palestinians was cut 
off, and Israel clamped a virtual blockade of Gaza and Lebanon. The 
consul general Mohamad El-Harake summarized the Israeli strategy very 
well to CNN?s Paula Zahn. He said, ?It is with Israel always a catch-22 
situation. Either you kill each other as Lebanese, or I [will] come to 
kill you all.? 
HYPOCRITES: For several decades the British and Americans boycotted 
South Africa for its apartheid practices. In reality, neither the U.K, 
nor U.S ever utter a peep over illegal Israeli-occupation of 
Palestinian and Lebanese land, ethnic cleansing, and cold-blooded 
murders of Lebanese and Palestinians. Ironically, they declare the 
starvation of the Lebanese and Palestinians at the hands of Israelis as 
fair and legitimate. 
HYPOCRISY: The U.S allows the private sector to take high-resolution 
satellite pictures of its own military and nuclear installations. In 
reality, American laws bar everyone from taking satellite pictures of 
Israeli military and nuclear installations. 
HYPOCRITES: Upon the whims of Israel, Al-Minar, a Hezbollah T.V 
channel was banned in the U.S, Europe and India for allegedly spreading 
its propaganda. In reality, nobody says a word over the specially 
trained Israeli diplomats in public relations and communications -- 
like Alon Pinkas (a coordinator of PR efforts and the Israeli Counsel-
General in New York) -- regularly winning and dinning with the America 
reporters and editors to disseminate the Israeli propaganda. 
HYPOCRITES: If anyone, even justifiably, dares to question or oppose 
the Zionist mantra or their behavior he/she is instantly labeled as 
?anti-Semite?. In reality, Zionists call every non-Jew a ?Gentile?. 
Those who maybe unaware of the meaning, Gentile means, Heathen, Pagan, 
or Uncivilized. Social stigmatism/assassination through labeling is the 
most commonly employed tactic by the Zionists to intimidate and harass 
their perceived foes. 
HYPOCRITES: West never allows the whole world, especially the Germans, 
to forget the holocaust. In reality, for the last 60 years when it 
comes to Israel the West remains blind to making the 5 million 
Palestinians pay reparations for the holocaust. 
 
It would be equally hypocritical to generalize every American and 
British and their whole media as biased in favor of Israel. U.S 
Congressman John Martha and the British Member of Parliament George 
Galloway are shinning examples of fair-minded politicians. 
Refreshingly, some of British news media, like ?The Independent,? 
provides unbiased coverage; occasionally, American media also exhibit 
glimpses of unbiased opinion. For example, August 1, 2006, in a ?Los 
Angeles Times?? Op-Ed, Adam Shatz pointed to the Israeli hypocritical 
humanitarian concerns, he wrote, ?When Israel targets densely populated 
areas in hopes of killing one or a handful of militants, knowing that 
it may end up killing dozens of civilians, it can hardly claim to be 
showing concern for humanitarian law or civilian life. And by asking 
that we judge it by its professed intentions, rather than by its 
actions, Israel is asking too much of us and far too little of itself.?
 
Host of political satire John Stewart and the anchor of ABC World News 
Charles Gibson are also notable exceptions and pleasant examples of 
honorable and unbiased American journalists. 
 
Maybe Andr Gide had Ehud Olmert and President Bush -- certainly not 
Tony Blair who merely loves to sit in Bush?s lap and wag his tail -- in 
mind when he observed, "The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to 
perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." Ehud Olmert 
flattened Lebanon under the pretext of self-defense, and President Bush 
flattened Afghanistan, Iraq and then helped Ehud Olmert flatten Lebanon 
under the pretext of self-defense and fighting terrorism. Who will 
fight the terror of these hypocrites? 
 
 
APPENDIX - A 
 
 
Following UN Security Council Resolutions directly name, condemn 
and/or deplore Israel for its violations. (Source: http://www.un.
org/Docs/sc/unsc_resolutions.html)
 
Directly or indirectly asks Israel to respect Lebanese territorial 
integrity, sovereignty and political independence:
331, 337, 347, 425, 444, 467, 474, 490, 498, 501, 520, 549, 555, 561, 
575, 583, 586, 587, 594, 599, 609, 617, 630, 639, 648, 659, 684, 701, 
768, 803, 852, 1052
 
Deplores Israeli actions or lack of cooperation:
444, 467, 488, 517, 518 
 
Condemns and calls upon Israel to cease military actions in Lebanese 
territories:
262, 270, 313, 316, 331, 347, 425, 450, 498, 501, 508
 
Condemns and deplores Israel for violating ceasefire and for military 
reprisals:
270, 280, 508, 509, 516, 517, 518, 520 
 
Demands Israel to completely withdraw from the Lebanese territories:
242, 279, 313, 427, 501, 509, 517, 520, 587, 1559 
 
Condemns and deplores Israel for violating Security Council 
resolutions:
248, 252, 256, 280, 337, 347, 444, 446, 467, 517, 520 
 
Condemns and deplores Israel for violating Geneva Convention and Human 
rights Laws:
237, 248, 256, 280, 316, 347, 446, 450, 512, 513, 515, 518, 520 
 
Deplores Israel for the interference and attacks on the UN Forces on 
the Israeli-Lebanese border:
427, 434, 467, 587, 1052 
 
Demands Israel to release abducted/kidnapped Lebanese personnel:
316, 317, 347 

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