In addition to the impunity enjoyed by Israeli troops, the Israeli's courts have demonstrated a bias against Palestinians and in comparison with settlers. For example, on 21 January 2001 the Israeli criminal court sentenced 17 year old Palestinian Su'ad Ghazal to 6 and a half years imprisonment for trying to stab a Jewish settler (resulting in light wounds). On the same day, Nahum Kurman, former head of security in the Bitar Elit settlement was sentenced to 6 months community service and a 70,000 Shekel fine for beating to death 11 year old Hilmi Shusheh from Husan village near Bethlehem.
Israel and Jewish people all over the world believe that God gave them Palestine. Ask them! It is a fact. Israel plans on taking over Palestine, because "God" gave it to them. Why does our government ignore this fact, why do our politicians ignore this fact? I don't know but I strongly suspect that A: a strong Jewish influence in American politics and B: most politicians are either threatened or figure if they can just let it slide until they get retired so why rock the boat. It would take a brave politician to take on the Israeli influence and I believe there would be some fear they might also have an 'accident.'So with this frame of mind, do you really think there is ever going to be 'peace' in the middle east?
Why did Israel attack the U.S. spy ship U.S.S. Liberty during the 1997 Israeli war? Read on, it all falls into place. The very fact that both governments are going to extremes to cover it up should tell you something. Fortunately in their zeal to cover up the facts they have contradicted themselves and each other.
*** The Israeli government was acutely aware of President Johnson's warning: the American president had told foreign minister Eban that he would support Israel only in self defense, not in attacks against her neighbors. It was important, then, for Israel to be seen as an innocent victim of fighting to word off hordes of wild-eyed arabs. Not surprisingly, Israel claimed that nearly everything she did was in self-defense. The preemptive strikes of the fifth of June were in self-defense. The capture of El Arish, the naval and paratroops assault on Sharm el-Sheikh. -- yet, the sweep through Sinai, in the armed penetration of Jordan were all in self-defense. Now, with the war virtually over and with the world crying for peace, could Israel put troops in Syria without being seen as an aggressor?
The Liberty would have to go.
So----by a remarkable coincidence, if not by design--general Elazar was forced to delay the invasion until Liberty was dispatched. Instead of attacking Syria, Israelis air, sea and shore coordinated forces work together to attack the United States ship. Only then, with Liberty safely out of the picture was Elazar turned loose. At 1130 Friday morning, June 9, as Liberty limped toward Malta, the first Israeli bulldozers climbed the mountain above Kefer Szold. A few hours later General Elazar took possession of the ridge to achieve a major objective in the war.
The invasion of Syria just a few hours after the attack on Liberty came as a surprise to most of the world. There seem to be no connection between the two events, and writers who claim to see a connection had no facts to back up their speculative stories. They had no facts because the facts were kept from them.