Sami Jamil Jadallah
Sami Jamil Jadallah
I grew up when there were curfews that lasted for days, when listening to the wrong radio station could land you in jail, and when “security/mokhabarat” could haul you to jail for no reason at all. I remember when I would see “darak” police on horses raiding villages and breaking into homes to mix rice, oil, lentil and flour on the middle of the floor. Continue reading
Sami Jamil Jadallah
We all know who “invented” the Palestinians, what we do not know is who “invented” Newt Gingrich?
This is typical political season, where presidential candidates out bid each other and will do every thing they are capable of doing, and since they have no moral or ethical scruples, they stoop so low they become indistinguishable from crawling worms, and are ready to sell their mothers, their country for a ‘fist full of dollars”. Continue reading
Sami Jamil Jadallah
America is angry and for good reason. And we as citizens have every reason to be angry with a Congress that the American people have lost faith in and have no respect for. A Congress driven and divided by impotent ideologies that serves the very narrow interests of special lobbies and Wall Street. A Congress of simple minds offering simple unworkable solutions for very complex problems and issues facing our nation.
We are angry at a political system that is so corrupted by money, greed, bad faith, contempt for the people and citizens with special breed of political and media consultants who sell us scruples idiots and demagogues as choices, where the costs of running for a House seat averages about $2 million every election cycle and where running for a Senate seat costs around $20 million, and a presidential election with costs that can run up to a billion dollars. Is this the democracy that Jefferson or Adam dreamed of? Is this the democracy our State Department wants to export to the world and to the Arab Spring?
We are angry at a political system that favors incumbents with vested interest in a seniority system that is highly rewarded by special lobbies with no limitations on tenures and were members of the House or the Senate can stay in until they are in diapers and become senile and yet, they keep winning and keep raking up the special health and retirement plans denied to all Americans.
We are angry at a political system that allows out of state and out of district money to influence local, congressional and senatorial elections and where money counts more than votes and where we as citizens as voters do not have much choice or influence over a corrupted political process where money is every thing.
We are angry at a financial and economic system that favors the very rich, favors Wall Street, its bankers, its lawyers and financial analysts. A financial system that simply sucks the blood out of the hard working people of America and take us to the cleaners every few years if not every day. The ills of our economy and loss of jobs did not start with the working people of America; it started and ended with a corrupt Wall Street that has nothing but contempt for the working class of this nation.
We are angry at a political, economic and financial system that allows more than 45 million Americans to live below poverty line. We are angry at a political, economic and financial system that denies 45 million Americans medical care and health insurance. We are angry at a political, economic and financial system that allows more than 15 million American children to go hungry every day.
We are angry at our system of government that till this day does not recognize education as a basic human right guaranteed by the US Constitution and are angry at a political system that discriminates between children who live in poor and rich areas and does not equalize the funding of our schools so that children, irrespective of the district they live in, can have access to the same education and same funding, and once again, we perpetuate inequality that starts with kindergarten and continues through high school. Can any one imagine America with so many great institutions of higher learning does not count education as a right?
We are angry at a political system that forces our children seeking college educations to go into debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars simply to get a 4-year college education. Unlike countries in Europe and the Far East were education is within the reach of every one who is smart enough and diligent enough to want a college or graduate education. Our Congress makes so easy for greedy investors to make a killing on student loans. Simply ask any graduate of medical, law or graduate school how much debt he starts his working career with?
We are angry at a political system that is out of tune with the country, its needs, and its heart beat and its people, a political system that is driven by and managed by media tycoons who own and control politicians and with enough power and influence to take us to wars that we have nothing to do with. War organized by self-serving groups of ideologues who wanted to test their theories and ideology with the blood of our brave men and women and special groups who wanted to test their loyalty to other nations with our tax dollars.
We are angry at a political, financial, economic and legal system that simply rewards greed and corruption, where big time corporate managers and owners can cheat the government and us of course us tax payers out of tens billions of dollars, only to get a slap on the wrist, and a few millions of dollars in fines and have an audacity to run for and win political office.
We are angry at such a system that so far, after years of the economic meltdown of the nation and ruined us as citizens, as taxpayers and homeowners. Yet no one has gone to jail for the crimes committed in trillion dollars of fraud perpetuated by banks, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve of course with collusion from a very appreciative Congress happy with the billions in financial contributions to election campaigns.
How many millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosures, seen their only saving disappear as their property values took a nose dive? How many millions of people lost their retirement plans, hard earned dollars they put in their 401Ks and in pension funds in major corporations while Congress and Wall Street enjoyed the good life.
Did our politicians and the Justice Department ever wonder how and why such big companies and corporations simply go out of business or go bankrupt wiping out billions of dollars of the people investments only for Wall Streets and their buddies to resurrect these corporations making a windfall profit for certain groups of people and individuals? Did any one wonder how General Motors or Chrysler simply went under and then resurrected and did any one wonder the role Wall Street played in all this?
We are angry at a political system that does not hold politicians accountable for their votes to take us to wars, to take the nation and its citizens to financial ruin and deny us our basic rights of decent life and a decent opportunity in a country we built with our hard work and sweat.
We are angry with a Congress that put the interests of Israel ahead of the interests of this nation and its people. A Congress were candidates must make the pilgrim to Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv seeking blessings and endorsements while forgetting to visit the ruins of small towns, factories shut down, the tens of millions of unemployed.
We are angry at a Congress that and administrations that provide loan guarantees to a foreign nation like Israel to build first class housing for its criminal trespassers on stolen land while tens of millions of Americans live in poor substandard housing all over America. A tour of South East Washington is a good example of this.
Yes, America you have every reason to be angry and we the people have every reason to be angry with our political, economic and financial systems that stopped rewarding hard work, honesty and decency and rewards incompetence, greed, fraud and scruples behavior and conduct among politicians, bankers, and lawyers.
Perhaps it is time to overhaul our entire political and economic system that failed us as people, as taxpayers and as a country and go back to the very basic ideas and principals that made this country a great nation. We need a new social, economic and legal contract with our government and our representatives and for sure we need to put Wall Street, its bankers, its lawyers and financial analysts out of business and take back our economy.
We need to give business managers the right to manage their companies for the benefits of both stockholders and workers independent and free from the daily interference and dictates of Wall Street where young ambitious and scruples financial annalists’ have a God say over the value of our stock and investments if not our jobs and our lives. We need to take back America from our Congress, from our politicians and from our Federal Reserve, certainly from Wall Street and once again empower the “we the people”.
Sami Jamil Jadallah
I called on my fellow Americans back in April 2011 to take up the cause of call to action (Americans First, A Call to Action) and then later in July with American Fall, but Not Spring with publications in both www.veteranstoday.com and www.jeffersoncorner.com. I also wrote America First, Why Not? The Occupy Wall Street movement should not have come as a surprise. Move over Tea Party, the American people are taking charge for real this time. Yes, there is always hope and yes, we the people will turn the nightmare to dream once again.
September 11th, what went wrong and why?
America that is much beloved by people and the world is of the past. Since Ronald Reagan took over and his alliance with the Christian fundamentalist rights and the American Zionist Jews all that changed. America changed inside and outside.
How America changed in a drastic way, both economically and politically. The economic change is a subject of a separate essay. The political change we see it in the Right Nation.
As America and American commemorate the horrific attack on the World Trade Center and the loss of more than 3,000 innocent Americans, the motives and the consequences of this loss and the attack seems to be lost to many.
Bin Laden and Alqaeda are not an accident, the Reagan administration with active help from many of the NeoCons who got us in the wars years later played a major and critical role in founding and funding of the Afghani Mujahideen and helped recruit tens of thousands of “Muslim Jihadist” in its war against the former Soviet Union.
With the war won against the former Soviet Union, many of these former “Jihadists” returned home only to be arrested at the recommendation of the CIA and the US government. Having helped defeat the Soviet Union, many felt it is time for liberation at home to get rid of “puppet” regimes in the Middle East. Hence Alqaeda was born.
Political leaders from Nixon, to Carter, to Reagan to Ford, to Bush Sr. to Clinton, to Bush Jr. to Obama all failed to see that Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is central to many of the people in the Middle East and the US total and unconditional support for Israel right and wrong did not leave much good will for the US. Having said that by no means this justify what took place on that fateful day, nor does it ever justify the loss of innocent lives on both sides of the ocean divide.
What happened that day ten years ago, leaves lots of questions unanswered not withstanding the findings of the “independent commission” set by George Bush Jr.? Only an open a” people board of inquiry” can answer what happened and why and by whom and for whom and if other countries or allies are involved and why our system failed? No one can convince me that a bunch of amateurs and unprofessional unlicensed commercial jet pilots can take command of jumbo jets and crash them into the Wall Trade Center and into the Pentagon. What about the “explosion heard from inside the building moments before the second plane hits? What about the meticulous collapse of the third building? What about the present of Israeli agents near the site? Did America needs another “Pearl Harbor” as suggested by the “gangs” of Christian and Jewish Zionists as they envision America for the New Century?
The American people deserve and have every right to know the truth. It is no accident that more than 40% of the American people (Zogby Poll) do not believe what they are told by the government.
For sure September 11th was in the making long time ago. It was in the making when Ronald Reagan guided by his NeoCons decided to manage “Jihad” in Afghanistan. It also started when a bunch of Evangelical Christian and Jewish Zionists decided to follow up on 6th grade project by the son of Karl Wilson, the administrative assistants to Douglas Faith at the Project for the New American Century, a man dubbed by General Tommy Frank as “the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth” and it seems this title qualified him to be a visiting professor and expert on international security affairs at Georgetown University.
Well, that project which began as 6th grade project ended costing American over 1.3 Trillion dollars and counting. A project that became a financial bonanza for Israel and its Fifth Column in the US. All at the expense of the American taxpayers and at the expense of tens of thousands of thousands of American lives. Thanks to the brilliant minds of Bill Kristol of Evening Standard, and his fellow American Jewish Zionists the likes of Douglas Feith, Richard Pearl, Paul Woflowitz, Elliot Abrams, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, Aaron Friedburg, Paula Dobrisansky, Elliot A. Cohen, and of course not mention Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Dov Zakheim, and Robert Zoellick head of the World Bank. They all made the Project for the New American Century a bloody project, a costly project and a failed project.
To this group the “War on Terror” started way before September 11th and it only needed a major catastrophic event like Pearl Harbor. The war on Iraq which costs us so far some $ 800 Billions started when this group decided that Saddam Hussein is a “threat” to Israel and its security and once in the Bush Administration, began to device a plan to convict Saddam and his regime stocking piling Weapons of Mass Destructions and the ball for the war was rolling thanks to a willing and very cooperating media that was imbedded and in bed with these Zionists NeoCons and of course Congress rolled over and played dead.
Their War on Terror not only put the lives of millions of American at home and abroad at risk, and costs the lives of millions overseas, but it also took its toll on taxpayers. According to the website “InfoPlease” the estimated costs of the War on Terror came close to $1.291 TRILLION, with some $635.9 BILLIONS going to Home Land Security with Israeli companies and “security and terror” experts receiving substantial contracts in the hundreds of millions putting America’s security at risk since the security and safety of America is entrusted to a third party.
According to a recent report in Haaretz, the Department of Home Land Security awarded and granted many Jewish groups and installations more than 81% of the $118 millions to become better prepared against “terrorists attacks. I am not aware of any public schools or churches let alone mosques were awarded any kind of money for the same purpose. According to Haaretz and quoting Paul Goldenberg, who is a national director of Secure Community Network established in 2005 to address communal security threats “ it is really unprecedented” and with Secretary Janet Napolitano quoted as saying” big results with small money”.
Of course no one talks of the more than one millions dead on the other side, in Iraq, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan and no talks of the 8 millions made refugees by the US NeoCon’s War on Terror and no one talks of the destructions of an entire generation. They only talks of the 3,000 who died on September 11th, as if the lives of these poor bastards are worth nothing.
A new business emerged from September 11th and that business is “Islamophobia” the business that generates tens of millions of dollars in donations and grants awarded to a select group of American Jewish Zionist Muslim and Islam bashers.
According to reports published on the web and article by Julianne Hing titled “The $43 Million Islamophobia Machine” a select group of American Jews has been spearheading this war of hate against the Muslims and Islam in America. Juliann Hing suggests that “ according to Fear Inc. a new report released by the Center for American Progress, those millions have gone to coordinate network of anti-Muslim thought leaders: Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy; David Yerushalmi at the Society of Americas for National Existence (bullshit title), Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum, Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch and Stop Islamization of America and Steve Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism”.
What this network of Islam and Muslim bashers and haters has been trying to do and to some extent succeeded in equating Arabs, Muslims and Islam as terrorists, as danger to America and America way of life, undermining American democracy and national security. With access to substantial grants to government contracts and agencies, with access to mainstream media these groups and individuals made hating Muslim and Islam a thriving business with them as the primary financial beneficiaries.
Many absurd statements are finding their way in mainstream media, and mainstream political discourse. According to Pam Geller a Jewish Zionists and anti-Arab and Anti-Islam is quoted at saying” Arabic is not just another language like the French or Italian. It is the spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply apposed to the United States.” Pam Geller and her right wing blog “ Atlas Shrug” is closely connected with another American Jewish right winger David Horowitz whose Freedom Center raked in $8.3 millions in the last decade. Another bigot calling herself Bridgette Gabriel declared, “ Muslims and Arabs have no soul. They are set on killing and destruction.”
In post September 11th any person who associate themselves with many of these Hate Projects become well qualified to be “terrorist experts” qualified to take contracts from State and Defense departments, from Home Land Security, from the FBI and from the CIA and qualify as ‘tax exempted organization”. It is always good to be “Jewish” and to be associated with these “security”, “terror” and “hate” shops and that should qualify any one, even an asshole or the dummiest person on earth to be an “expert “on security, “expert” on terrorism, certainly experts on Islam, Muslims and Arabs.
America and Americans owes the innocent victims of September 11th at home and abroad the truth. We owe all the thousands of innocent who lost their lives that fateful morning and their loved ones the truth. We owe all of the millions of innocent people who died overseas and their loved one and the millions made homeless because of wars the truth. Why no one dare to open and raise the question what costs Israel? And why?
In closing I could not help but laugh when I read an essay in the National Review on Line (Feb 8, 2011) titled “Dictators and Hedgehogs” by non other than that of all people the “fucking stupidest guy on the face of earth” Douglas Feith suggesting “America can use a proper strategy promoting reforms in the Arab world” now my friend this is the ‘fucking stupidest” thing I ever heard.
Sami Jamil Jadallah
Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner). His articles are also featured on PalestineNote and Veterans Today.
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Born in the Palestinian city of El-Bireh ( presently under Israeli Military Occupation, Armed Jewish thugs and settlers). Immigrated to the US in 62. After graduating from high school in Gary, Indiana was drafted into the US Army ( 66-68) received the Leadership Award from the US 6th Army NCO Academy in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Five of us brothers where in US military service about the same time. Graduated from Indiana University with BA-72, Master of Public Affairs-74 and Juris Doctor-77, and in senior year at IU,was elected Chairman of the Indiana Student Association.