The Christian Science Monitor has an article documenting Israel’s “almost daily” military incursions into Lebanese territory.

In the process of its violations, Israel has terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, for instance, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese cities and continues to occupy Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. What peace did Hizbullah shatter?

The Christian Science Monitor article represents a crack in the almost solid wall in the US media that refuses to discuss the true facts of the Middle East.  In the US, it is practically tabu to discuss anything other than the Israeli national mythology–poor little Isreal, surrounded by enemies (conveniently forgetting peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan) who started all the Middle East wars aainst Isreal.  This fiction isimpossible to justify in the case of the 1954 war where Britain, France and Isreal invaded Egypt to seize the Suez canal, but the true believers are never bothered by facts.

To Israel’s credit, it has been Israeli historians, such as Benny Morris, who have brought to light the true facts surrounding the ethnic clensing upon which Israel was founded, and the blatently aggressive and expanionist policies that Israel has followed since.

Ironicly, more Israeli Jews know the truth about their government, and are critical of it, than U.S. Jews.  Just as U.S. Irish Catholics supported the IRA for decades, US Jews continue to blindly support, an aggressive, racist government whose policies threaten the stability of the world.

It’s time for a fair debate in the US media about Israel.