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Editor’s Note:

Every now and then a new organization springs up and
about 4 years ago, this one did. Far away from the media
spotlight, they have become an impressive voice for
Justice. I hope you check them out.

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Video Clip Of The Week

Look Into My Eyes for Free Palestine

The folk song Look Into My Eyes is put to dramatic photos
of children in Palestine, both dead and alive. It is the
children that pay a heavy price for occupation and war.

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Look Into My Eyes for Free Palestine</a>

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If Americans Knew – Mission Statement

In a democracy, the ultimate responsibility for a
nation’s actions rests with its citizens. The top
rung of government – the entity with the ultimate
power of governance – is the asserted will of the
people. Therefore, in any democracy, it is essential
that its citizens be fully and accurately informed.

In the United States, currently the most powerful
nation on earth, it is even more essential that its
citizens receive complete and undistorted information
on topics of importance, so that they may wield their
extraordinary power with wisdom and intelligence.

Unfortunately, such information is not always forthcoming.

The mission of If Americans Knew is to inform and educate
the American public on issues of major significance that
are unreported, underreported, or misreported in the
American media.

It is our belief that when Americans know the facts on a
subject, they will, in the final analysis, act in
accordance with morality, justice, and the best interests
of their nation, and of the world. With insufficient
information, or distorted information, they may do the
precise opposite.

It is the mission of If Americans Knew to ensure that
this does not happen – that the information on which
Americans base their actions is complete, accurate, and
undistorted by conscious or unconscious bias, by lies of
either commission or omission, or by pressures exerted
by powerful special interest groups. It is our goal to
supply the information essential to those responsible
for the actions of the strongest nation on earth – the
American people.

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Action Focus #1

Israel is the largest recipient of US. aid in the entire
world. It receives more aid than that given to all the
countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean, put together.

Israel receives over $10 million dollars per day from the
United States, and there is evidence that the total figure
is closer to $15 million a day. Yet this information is
almost never printed in American newspapers. Coverage of
the Middle East in general, and of Israel in particular,
virtually never reports this enormous American connection
with this region.

Empowered by American money, Israel is occupying land that
does not belong to it, is breaking numerous international
laws and conventions of which it is a signatory, and is
promulgating policies of brutality that have been condemned
by the United Nations, the European Union, the National
Council of Churches, Amnesty International, the
International Red Cross, and numerous other international
bodies. This truth is also rarely reported.

Through the money and weaponry provided by the United
States, Israel is imposing an ethnically discriminatory
nation on land that was previously multicultural. There
is ethnic and religious discrimination inherent in its
national identity, and a doctrine of the supremacy of
one group over all others permeates its political,
financial, and military policies. This also is virtually
never reported.

There are a variety of organizations and individuals in
Israel who are protesting their government’s policies,
and who are working strenuously and courageously on behalf
of human rights and justice. It is their intent to create
a just and fair nation with equal rights for all its
citizens. They are refusing to serve in the military
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and are actively
trying to prevent Palestinian homes from being bulldozed.
These actions are also not covered in the American media.

American support of the Israeli government is against our
national interest on every level: It places us at war
with populations whose desperate plight we are helping to
create, and who, quite correctly, place the responsibility
for their sufferings on us. It makes us an accomplice to
war crimes and an accessory to oppression. This also is
not reported.

In analyzing the American media, we are increasingly
discovering a cover-up of appalling proportions. Israel
is being protected, the news about Palestinians in
particular and Arabs in general is being distorted, and
the American public is being manipulated.

We believe strongly that if Americans knew the truth about
Israel and Palestine — about the massive amount of our
tax money that is being given away to Israel, and about
the human costs of Israel’s American-financed militarism
– they would demand an immediate re-thinking of our
policies in this region.

It is the goal of If Americans Knew to inform the American
public accurately about this area. Most of all, it is to
inform Americans about our enormous, and too often
invisible, personal connection to it.

Americans, through our blank check to Israel, are
empowering the worst elements of Israeli society, and
undermining those working for a just, peaceful, and
nondiscriminatory nation.

We are driving the violence in this region.
We can stop it.