by Steve Chavez
Congratulations on this thirty year anniversary of a movement whose result has led to them to defining the future course of the world. This “movement” though is based on hate, blame, and most importantly, deception. They are the “peace movement.” They hide behind the neutral banner of “peace,” but unlike the neutral referees they pretend to be, they side with, and are funded by, one of the teams which is the reason they only call fouls on the other team.
Who are these crooked referees of today whose voice is carried in every media outlet? Why do they hide behind the banner of “peace” and yet support warring factions of the worst kind? Why do millions join this movement not knowing who the ghost leaders, or their goals, are?
In order to understand the movement of today, we must first go back sixty years to 1949. This is an important time for several countries including China and Israel but also the Soviet Union which started the World Peace Council (WPC), a group that the Peace Studies classes of today wouldn’t dare examine.
The KGB “active measures” department used “peace as a weapon of war.” Their symbol is a dove formed into a clenched fist. They used the neutral word and white flag of “peace” to promote World Communism and Internationalism. In an article by Carla Bass, Air University-Air Force, “Building Castles on Sand?,” she states “some analysts estimate that during the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union spent $4 billion annually on active measures.”
The KGB goal was to set up Peace Council’s in every country with the most important one being in the United States. In 1962, American Michael Myerson traveled to Vietnam for a Communist Youth Festival and was International Secretary of the Communist W.E.B. DuBois Club. There he became the honorary nephew to Ho Chi Minh. When the Vietnam War started, who do you think Myerson sided with? With the Communists in Vietnam and their Communist supporters in the Soviet Union and China or his own country and troops?
“U.S. OUT OF VIETNAM!” was the chant of the American peace movement led by members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and others like SDS, the Weathermen, and VVAW, whose Communist ties and sympathies are well documented. (Why is the CPUSA left out of public discussion and analysis?) Of course they wanted us “OUT OF VIETNAM” so their Soviet Union masters could take it over which they did! While Communists battled our troops in Vietnam, our Communists fought on the real front lines of the war: Winning the hearts and minds, usually stoned out of their minds, here in the United States.
Due to the McCarthy era, any legitimate exposing of this “peace” deception and the Communist connection, including by President’s Nixon and Johnson, was taboo and they wanted to keep it that way! KGB defector, Stanislav Levchenko, a former major in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1979, in response to this author’s question posed to him in the late 80’s on the Jim Bohannan Radio Show, stated that McCarthy was correct in questioning many Americans since the Soviet goal was to infiltrate all levels of government, especially military research, using American’s who were sympathetic with their ideology by placing spies “in the land of their main enemy.”
Ion Pacepa, a defector and former intelligence chief of Romania, states in an article on National Review Online titled “(John) Kerry’s Soviet Rhetoric,” “I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. The KGB organized a vitriolic conference in Stockholm to condemn America’s aggression, on March 8, 1965, as the first American troops arrived in south Vietnam. On Andropov’s orders, one of the KGB’s paid agents, Romesh Chandra (India), the chairman of the KGB-financed World Peace Council, created the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam as a permanent international organization to aid or to conduct operations to help Americans dodge the draft or defect, to demoralize its army with anti-American propaganda, to conduct protests, demonstrations, and boycotts, and to sanction anyone connected with the war.” He also states that the WPC funds were
“all delivered in laundered cash dollars.”
When the United States left Vietnam in 1975, the peace movement took the victory credit. The leaders of the movement, our CPUSA, won their first battle for the country they loved more than their own!
A mere four years later, (Thirty year anniversary!), CPUSA member, Michael Myerson, officially started the United States Peace Council directed and funded by the CPUSA. During 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. On our side of the world, the CPUSA, the Spanish-speaking Cuban DGI, and the Soviet KGB, had their eyes on Central America. The “movement” screamed about abuses by Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza until enough pressure was exerted on Jimmy Carter to discontinue support for Nicaragua thereby leaving the door open for Daniel Ortega. Ortega dismissed goodwill overtures and it soon became clear that Ortega was in the Soviet camp all along. America was deceived once again by the “peace” movement. Communists aiding Communists once again!
The U.S. Peace Council (USPC) then started the movement that we are dealing with today. Many sixties hippies, and their parents, were professors at universities. They began a top-to-bottom takeover of higher education to begin their radical indoctrination and brainwashing. If an applicant walked into an interview wearing a Che T-shirt, you were hired on the spot. This is an exaggeration of course but the Dean, and hiring committee were Far-Left radicals that praised the ideals of Socialism and Communism and you were most likely already screened for your political opinions and were recommended by your Leftist professor and just went through the formalities. If there were three applicants, which is normal, they pick the better Marxist. (I call this “The Circle of Communism.”)
The USPC recruited naïve university students to join in Nicaraguan Construction Brigades “to help the people.” Many students quit school, and their, and their parents, dream. Another recruiting tactic was to use Spanish classes, and professors in the “Circle,” to advertise speeches by Spanish speaking Nicaraguan’s, and other Latin-Americans including rebels themselves, to test their Spanish skills. Many professors required that papers on that speech be written in Spanish.
In nearby El Salvador, the “peace” deception was at its best. “U.S. OUT OF EL SALVADOR!” “EL SALVADOR IS SPANISH FOR VIETNAM!” The rebel group, the FMLN, was directed by Shafik Handal, the head of the Communist Party of El Salvador. The FMLN had five factions but the most powerful was led by Handal. His brother, Farid Handal, began the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador or CISPES. CISPES raised money for the rebels in the United States fooling Americans with advertisements that said “to help the rural people of El Salvador.” The “rural people” were actually the rebel “Zones of Control.” Americans blindly gave money to fronts like New El Salvador Today (NEST) and Medical Aid to El Salvador run by Congressman John Conyers. Congressman Ron Dellums (D-CA) was their front man in Congress to stop aid to El Salvador. Farid Handal even states “his (Dellum’s) offices were our offices.” (Document sent to this author by the State Department.) Dellums was also pro-active in his support for Maurice Bishop of Grenada.
“NO CONTRA AID” was the scream by the CPUSA fronts which the Congress followed. Why did Congress listen to this movement? Many in Congress, including John Kerry, were in the “Circle” and were products of the sixties movement. (The CPUSA, and their fronts, returned the favor for Kerry’s unending support for Communists worldwide when they “supported” his run for President.)
(Me and my wife were attending St. Charles Church here in Albuquerque and the priest interrupted the service and said that there was going to be two collections with the first one going to the church and that he was allowing two ladies to explain where the other was going. They walked in front of the author and said it was “for the rural people of El Salvador..” I almost screamed but couldn’t. I approached the priest in the lobby after the mass and explained to him who this group was and what they were going to do with the funds and he walked away but many people did hear what I said. I called him later to set up an appointment and he refused. Marxists raising money in the home of the Son of God to fund a war and an ideology that says “there is no God?” Keep in mind the movement of Liberation Theology which many priests were duped into following even after the Pope John Paul II demanded that they cease.)
The USPC had affiliates in every state. The leaders were members of CPUSA, or Closet Communists, but the followers were not.
Here in New Mexico, there was the NM Peace Council (NMPC). The leader, of this public group, was Gerry Bradley.
(The following four events led to my activism. The first meeting I attended was in 1986 with topic on Guatemala and was hosted by Angela della Santi, co-leader of NMPC. I was interested in the music of Guatemala so I was hoping to meet anyone that would help in my musical research. There were no words of “peace” but towards the end of the meeting, she asked for funds to “aid our brothers and sisters” in their war in Guatemala. I raised my hand and said, “hey, you’re a peace group and you’re raising money for war?” Della Santi abruptly ended the meeting saying that the university janitor had to clean the room.
The next meeting by NMPC was hosted by Gerry Bradley who had just returned from Cuba. He said, “everything’s nice and rosy,” in Cuba. I asked if that was true, “why did 125,000 flee in the Mariel Boatlift?” He stated that “they all wanted to become Capitalists.” I eventually asked if he was “a Marxist.” He stood up and charged me, pointing his finger an inch from my nose, and shouted, “I’m not a Marxist and don’t you ever accuse me of being one! I’m the furthest thing from it! I’m a patriotic American!” I said, “I’m sorry but everything you say is pro-Marxist.” I was extremely embarrassed as no one had ever yelled at me that way.
On February 17, 1986, there was a meeting by the N.M. Marxist Educators for Socialist Action with guest speaker George Meyers, head of the Labor Department of the Communist Party USA. I attended. Guess who the head of New Mexico Marxists is? Did you guess Gerry “I’m not a Marxist” Bradley? He’s not a Marxist during “peace” meetings but President of the Marxist’s during the Marxist meetings? My face was flush with anger. Comrade Meyers screamed that they sought “the overthrow of the United States.” I asked how that was going to be accomplished. Meyers replied, “We’ll fill the ranks of our army with the homeless and the unemployed.” He stood up and pounded on the podium saying, “and through force if necessary!” Everyone cheered except me!
The next NMPC meeting had a woman who was a rebel in the FMLN. Della Santi was the interpreter and Bradley was also at the head table. At the end of the speech came questions. I raised my hand but was not asked until a man said, “he’s got his hand up.” Gerry acknowledged me so I asked, “Are you a Marxist?” Taboo? McCarthyite? Red-Baiter? This question caused a ten minute interruption of screaming and verbal attacks by “peace” people. One person stood up and said, “I’ve known Gerry for five years and I know he’s not a Marxist!” Gerry eventually stood up and said, “Where did you get that bullshit information?”
Daily Lobo reporter Jegad Ortega McKenzie came to me and asked who I was but I asked him to ask Gerry if he was the head of the New Mexico Marxist Educators. He said interviewed Gerry at the beginning of the meeting and asked him “if his group had any Marxist or Communist affiliation and he said no. And then you ask this stupid question and disrupted the meeting, besides I’m the reporter and I have my own questions.” A person nearby jumped in and said, “he’s always disrupting the meetings.”
Ortega left and people surrounded. Bradley and Ortega went to the lobby and I followed. Ortega saw me and asked Bradley, who had his back to me, if he was the head of the Marxist group. Gerry replied, “Where did you get that information?” Ortega said, “that man.” Gerry turns around and sees me and says, “Yea I am so what!” Ortega was surprised and knew this was a big story. He was upset and said, “End of interview with you. Sir I need to speak to you.” I told him of the Marxist meeting and its flyer that was posted around campus so we went to look for one and found two. He had to have direct evidence. We spoke for a few minutes till he had to leave to write the article. It was never printed.
In May, and near the end of the semester, Ortega sees me walking down Silver Ave. and runs to me. I asked him what happened and he said the editor didn’t allow it. He asked me to write a Letter to the Editor and to meet him at 2:00 at the Lobo office. I was prompt and he didn’t show. The student worker asked if I needed help so I told her I had a Letter to the Editor. She left and she came back with the Editor, Roxy McKenzie, no relation to Jegot, who I had recognized from the Marxist meeting where she openly stated to Meyers that she was, “a proud member of the N.M. Communist Party.”
I then made it my mission to expose these groups and their tactics of deception. I spoke almost daily, with the above memorized quotes, on our local talks shows including KKOB, KZIA, AND KNUS. I was also a guest on KZIA whose host never believed anything I had to say till I brought in the proof. He was then my biggest supporter. I also called the Larry King radio show but he would hang up on me when I mentioned “Communist.” He couldn’t hang up on me when I spoke to the likes of Al Haig, Harold Brown, and Alfredo Cristiani, the President of El Salvador who I told about Americans in his country fomenting, and funding, war. A week later, he imposed a travel ban to all Americans entering the rebel “Zones of Control.”
None of my Letters ever made it to the Lobo even with different editors.)
(Continuing on my personal experiences. I met the highest ranking Soviet defector ever, Arkady Shevchenko, at a speech he gave in UNM’s Popejoy Hall in the late 80’s. He was promoting his book “Breaking With Moscow” and I had a brief conversation with him before the speech but he did ask me to remind him of my concern during the question period. After his speech, I asked about the World Peace Council, U.S. Peace Council, N.M. Peace Council, and the UNM Peace Council. He replied, “The World Peace Council is a nest of KGB spies!” In his book, page225, he states, “ the Soviet-controlled World Peace Council… swarmed with KGB officers.” The Albuquerque Journal reporter left out that important comment so I called him. He said he left before my question was asked, which was the second one. But I informed him that he wrote about a question about Jesse Jackson which was the seventh question! He hung up!)
The NMPC had a particularly deceptive practice that is duplicated around the world. (Continues to this day.) The group was led by two people and a small circle of followers who were directed to start their own group under a good sounding name. You then had, for an example, ten groups with ten members each so when there was a protest or guest speaker, there were ten sponsors on the flyer. (Great trick huh!)
In 1989, the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan with aid from our government. The movie “Charlie Wilson’s War” is a perfect example of how hard it was to get funds from Congress to fight Communists, at least on the other side of the world. The Berlin Wall fell and the Iron Curtain was beginning to crumble. In 1990, Daniel Ortega lost the election and all the Construction Brigades, that were there to “help the people,” left the country which proves they were actually there to help an ideology!
After the fall of the final domino, the Soviet Union, the most bitter of all Communists around the world were our Communists, their fronts, and their millions of followers. They fought side by side with the Soviets and Communism and now all was lost, for a couple of years at least, till Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War. (I went to protests and saw the followers, or little sheep, of Gerry Bradley, and the KGB, who were now the leaders, or sheepherders, of the protests. They learned well from the KGB but I called it, “Same movie, different actors!”)
The 90’s were slow for these “peacemakers.” They want and live for war so they can feel important again. Then in 1995, the Zapatistas made them happy again when they took over the small town, San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. Soon enough, Americans flooded the area with their “NO JUSTICE. NO PEACE!” signs. (Americans are still inciting that war, and another teacher rebellion in Oaxaca, with fund-raisers including in Catholic Churches sponsored by the local Peace and Justice Center. My slogan: “NO FUNDING. NO WAR.” There would have been peace there years ago if not for these American “revolutionaries!” Since they are cowards, they let others spill their blood for their fight which is Marxism!) The main reason the “peace movement” aids these “poor campesinos,” is because of Subcommandante Marcos, whose real name is Sebastian Guillen Vicente, a well-known Marxist revolutionary from Mexico City.
The most important issue in the 90’s was the Gulf War where they blamed the U.S. for everything while dismissing the genocide and atrocities of Saddam which he was eventually put to death for. “Children don’t have any milk” was their cry excusing the “Oil for Food” fraud that their Russian comrades, and others of the Left, were perpetrating. They also left out that Saddam used the money to build more and bigger palaces with gold-plated faucets while also playing cat-and mouse with weapon’s inspectors.
They also excused what this author calls, “Saddam’s Humiliation and Revenge.” During the Gulf War, Saddam had to see his prized and feared soldiers surrendering live on CNN which was witnessed by all the world. Remember Saddam standing in front of thousands shooting his rifle? He had a glow in his eyes like he was a God.
What did this humiliation do to this man? He wanted REVENGE! Didn’t he try to assassinate Bush Sr., the man responsible for his humiliation? Bill Clinton kept him in a box furthering his humiliation and making REVENGE the policy of this madman gone madder.
When the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain fell, we cheered, our Communists cried. When the Twins fell, our Communists cheered, we cried! (My research into the numerous conspiracy theorists finds that they were directly connected to the followers of the 80’s Peace Council’s. They wanted to sow the seeds of suspicion and hatred towards their own country and its leaders! Didn’t they also blame Israel?)
On 9-11, Saddam too saw his dream of revenge realized. Don’t you think that he would seek out those who accomplished this feat so as to team up with them, to fund them, or to arm them with nukes or biological/chemical weapons, to cause even worse damage resulting in the destruction of all the United States? That’s what Bush called, “Imminent Threat,” meaning eventually, Saddam would have taken out his revenge, and not only against us, but on those who supported us with Israel being on the top of list. Remember the Scuds and Israeli citizens in a panic in fear of the same type of gas Saddam used on his own citizens?
In an article titled “Russia Hid Saddam’s WMD” written for Front Page Magazine (10-3-03) Ion Pacepa states, “The Soviet bloc not only sold Saddam its WMDs, but it showed them how to make them ‘disappear.’ Russia is still at it. Primakov was in Baghdad from December until a couple of days before the war, along with a team of Russian military experts led by two of Russia’s topnotch ‘retired’generals: Vladislav Achalov, a former deputy defense minister, and Igor Maltsev, a former air defense chief of staff. They were all there receiving honorary medals from the Iraqi defense minister. They clearly were not there to give Saddam military advice for the upcoming war—Saddam’s Katyusha launchers were of World War II vintage, and his T-72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes were all obviously useless against America. ‘I did not fly to Baghdad to drink coffee,’ was what Gen. Achalov told the media afterward. They were
there orchestrating Iraq’s ‘Sarindar’ plan. As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take orders from the Soviet KGB, it is perfectly obvious to me that Russia is behind the evanescence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place. The Soviet Union and all its bloc states always had a standard operating procedure for deep sixing weapons of mass destruction — in Romanian it was codenamed ‘Sarindar,’ meaning ‘emergency exit.’ I implemented it in Libya. It was for ridding Third World despots of all trace of their chemical weapons if the Western imperialists ever got near them. We wanted to make sure they would never be traced back to us, and we also wanted to frustrate the West by not giving them anything they could make propaganda with.”
Other Ion Pacepa articles are of great importance to understanding former KGB holdouts like Putin and the Russian-Iraq WMD conspiracy. (Google Ion Pacepa Iraq WMD.)
“The followers of the 80’s KGB/CPUSA are the leaders of today.” Today’s protesters scream, “NO WAR ON IRAN!” when they should be screaming “NO NUKES IN IRAN!” so there is “NO WAR ON IRAN!” Isn’t the reason there could be a war in Iran is their pursuit of nuclear weapons, and funding terrorism, which they might use “to wipe Israel off the map?” If Iran does nuke Israel, there will be a world war fought with nukes and the whole Middle East will be turned into green glass. (At Trinity Site in New Mexico, the nuclear blast melted the sand into green glass.) Where are the anti-nuke protesters since this is their opportunity to stop a country from building them which is a whole lot easier than trying to get a country to abolish them once their built? The IAEA is powerless and maybe complicit in Iran’s and North Korea’s programs. Do we then depend on the anti-U.S. and anti-Israel United Nations to stop Iran?
The protesters silence comes back to the Communist Party USA! This author calls it “Putin’s Revenge!” We aided in the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and cheered at the fall of the Iron Curtain, so now KGB Putin, and our CPUSA, aid any group, or country, that seeks our defeat in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the whole Middle East including the destruction of Israel!
Public opinion is shaped by those who control the media. Leftist Editors send their Leftist reporters to cover protests but their slanted views are taken as real news by the naïve and apolitical public. These editors and reporters learned their biased views in their journalism classes. Leftist professors, in all subjects, have a captive audience to brainwash their students. If you dare speak up, you will be given a lower grade especially if that class in based on opinions or analysis of a particular topic where the professor can, and does, take political opinions into consideration. In a math class, where answers are right or wrong, the professor has no option but to give you the correct grade. You have little recourse and the professor will always win. Their goal: Students with higher grades get scholarships and better jobs.
A professor should be held responsible for documented and outright classroom indoctrination and intimidation. Professor Joseph Massad, a tenured professor at Columbia University, the hotbed of anti-Israeli propaganda, is well documented for classroom indoctrination but the school that invited Ahmadinejad to speak, is unwilling to intimidate any Muslim or Arab professor no matter how egregious their actions, hatred, and incitement!
Guess where Joseph Massad went to undergraduate school? Jordan, where he was born? Syria? How about the University of New Mexico. Yes, he was an undergrad student in the 80’s and friend of Gerry “I’m not a Marxist” Bradley. Why was Massad at meetings focusing on Central America? He did sponsor one meeting titled: “Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker?” (I still have the flyer. April 28, 1986 sponsored by: Arab Community of NM, New Jewish Agenda, Arab Students Association, NM Peace Council and the Albuquerque International Solidarity Coalition.) The guest speaker was Alan Hart. Again, why was Massad at meetings on Central America? Did he want Islam to be taught along with Liberation Theology? The reason is because he wanted to learn his activism and radicalism from the best!
Massad’s hatred for Israel, along with many other professors at Columbia, including Edward Said, is well documented. What is troubling, is that they use their class to sow hatred towards Israel and Jews and get away with it! The U.N. recently passed a resolution that makes it a crime to speak ill of a Muslim or Islam while hatred for Israel and Jews is a part of a university curricula!
What type of person and movement makes excuses and legitimizes the worst of the actions of war? The CPUSA’s mission is based on division “Brother against brother.” Their eventual goal is a Civil War here in the United States. Look at the hatred between peoples today. The Left loves a fight, since they think they are the all powerful, and will say in the middle of a conversation on green chile chicken enchiladas, “You didn’t vote for Bush did you?” What is one supposed to say? This author, and many of you, have denied Bush more than Peter denied Jesus. If your answer is that you did vote for Bush, and twice, you are in for it, and no matter what you say, you cannot reason with a brainwashed person so it’s better to say you didn’t vote at all because on that day you “were feeding the prairie dogs, dawn to dusk.”
The U.S. Peace Council changed names to United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) but only in name like the KGB changing to FSB. Their goals are the same but at their website, unitedforpeace.org, you will not find any reference that their group is led by CPUSA members Leslie Cagan and Judith LeBlanc.. Their newspaper, People’s Weekly World (PWW at pww.org), also has no reference or link to CPUSA.org. Isn’t this what Gerry Bradley did?
During the 2004 Republican Convention in New York City, UFPJ boosted that they had 500,000 protesters. On the front page of their actual hard copy newspaper but not on their website, (September 4, 2004 issue at pww.org/back issues), they have a photo with a large banner held up by numerous people including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Danny Glover, and Media Benjamin of Code Pink.
Judith LeBlanc, of UFPJ, was sent to Lebanon soon after the Hezbollah-Israel war three summers ago. She wrote an article in CPUSA’s, People’s World Weekly (PWW) titled “Eight Days in Lebanon” where she met with the members of the Lebanese Communist Party. (Lebanon has a Communist Party? Go to solidnet.org and you will be surprised how many there are in Arab countries. Iraq also has one and our CPUSA has declared official “Solidarity with the Iraq Communist Party (ICP).” Both Party’s call the U.S. in Iraq, “the occupiers in an illegal invasion.” Okay, so is the ICP aiding the insurgency, directly or indirectly, and therefore killing American “occupiers?” UFPJ and Code Pink, passed out $600,000 to residents of Fallujah when soon thereafter, our forces entered to rid the city of a massive terrorist safe-haven. They have even called the terrorists, “the real freedom fighters!” Those “freedom fighters” are killing the troops that they “support” and want to “bring home” in coffins that they can now photo upon return?)
Leblanc’s “fact-finding mission” leaves out Hezbollah rocket attacks along with the complicity of Syria and Iran. This “neutral” observer also didn’t mention the most despicable Hezbollah tactic: The use of Human Shields.
The more recent Israel right of self defense was against another despicable group: Hamas. The Left of America cried about “Israel’s over-reaction” but not one word about Israel’s right to protect its citizens and country. Even former Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, was siding with Hamas as she tried to enter the area with “humanitarian supplies.” Her photo-op was not allowed.
There is detailed evidence, even by Human Rights groups based in the Palestinian areas and in Lebanon, that reveal that Hezbollah and Hamas used apartment buildings and homes to launch rockets which Israel then pinpointed for retaliation.
While Israel, and the United States, now use laser-guided weapons, some with mounted cameras, to minimize innocent civilian damage. But are these women and children actually innocent human shields? How many of us would allow a terrorist to use our home for safe haven knowing that a rocket would soon arrive to kill our children? Did the women allow this or were they forced at the barrel of a gun? Would they consider themselves martyrs and heroes whose pictures are plastered on walls around town to be praised for martyrdom, like the suicide murderers are now, for their sacrifice for Allah?
The media reporters, many majoring in Journalism in the 80’s, only reported and showed the piled up corpses of women and children conveniently leaving out the interviews where citizens reported that fighters used their home, and them, as human shields.
There is also evidence in a film that this author recently saw on Jenin where a child was holding up a rifle with a bullet necklace. Is this child “innocent?” This film is not unlike another film, “Zonas de Controlidad” that this author saw in the 80’s on the rebel group in El Salvador. It praised a seven-year old child as a fighter but if that child was killed, his armaments were to be removed so they can only show the photo of a “poor innocent child” that is front page headlines. Thirty years later, this Leftist art of deception is masterful in their deception against Israel. The media then shapes public opinion which in turn translates to their goal: A change in national policy.
Many educational systems are now used around the world to promote hatred towards Israel and the United States. Madrassas, and regular schools, teach the killing of infidels and Jews. Schools, and parents, in the Middle East brainwash the youngest child to hate Jews. Older children learn the art of Jihad and how to make bombs.
Local Peace and Justice Centers are also offering Peace Education Projects where their speakers are invited to classes to speak about “peace” and to counter military recruiters. This again is a lie and deception. The speakers are radicals who blame the U.S. and Israel for “being the true obstacles of peace in the Middle East.” Teachers, even in younger grades, begin the indoctrination by favoring a particular country, person, issue, or group.
What type of educator, and movement, makes excuses and legitimizes the worst of the actions of war? How can anyone excuse the use of Human Shields? How can anyone legitimize the use of suicide murderers? Why don’t women’s groups, who fight for their bodies, stand up to stop Female Genital Mutilation where the clitoris is cut off so they do not have pleasure during sex? What about the stoning of a woman for merely being with a man that is not a family member and is also stoned for being raped while the rapists are set free? Honor killings of women are again not stood up for by these groups?
What is in the mindset of a movement who is in “Solidarity” with a group that would gladly cut your heads off if they had a chance while at the same time, condemning a country and people who would sacrifice themselves to save you from the very people you are in “Solidarity” with?
Blessed are the Peacemakers?
