'I HAVE IN MY HANDS A LIST'
New documentary evidence points to an Israeli connection to 9/11

Many people write to me and ask: "Why do you hate Israel so much?" My answer to them is: No, I don't hate Israel – but I am beginning to hate Israel's government, and here's why:

"Israel's missile attack on a densely populated area of Gaza City provoked worldwide condemnation yesterday, but the Israeli Government defended its action robustly. The West and the Arab world united in denouncing the attack, saying it violated international law by targeting innocent civilians. But Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, hailed the killing of the Hamas commander Salah Shehada as a great success. The deaths of 14 others, including nine children, were said to be regrettable."

Okay, so it's a war, and bad things happen in wartime, unavoidable deaths, "collateral damage," etc. etc., you know the drill. But why does Israel's Prime Minister find it necessary to hail the killing of nine children as "one of our great successes" and congratulate his trained killers for a job well-done? Is he an out-of-the-closet sadist, loud and proud in his desire to inflict maximum pain?

Sharon later backtracked, somewhat, acknowledged that a "mistake" had been made in firing a heavy-duty missile at a thickly-populated apartment complex in the Gaza strip, and tried to shift the blame onto "misleading intelligence." According to the new story, Shin Bet hadn't told them that innocent civilians were in the area.

This was met with widespread disbelief. After all, firing a one-ton missile at an apartment complex – you know, a place where families live – could have had but one result. "To suggest anything otherwise," John Ryan, Ireland's UN ambassador said in the Security Council the other day, "is disingenuous."

Which is just a hifalutin' way of calling someone a bloody liar.

Even Sharon's poodle, otherwise known as the President of the United States, was moved to remark that the Gaza massacre was somewhat "heavy-handed" – although naturally the official US denunciation, as always, reiterated this administration's unconditional support for Israel. As presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer put it:

"The president's concern here is there is loss of innocent lives. The president has been and will continue to be the first to defend Israel. In this case the president sees it differently. … This was a deliberate attack on this site, knowing that innocents would be lost as a consequence of this attack."

Is it finally beginning to dawn on the White House that what we are dealing with in the Sharon government is evil, pure and simple – as evil as Hamas. Probably not, but the unmistakable evidence of something rotten in the state of Israel grows, such as this sickening story in the Jerusalem Post about an IDF company commander and a soldier in the reserves who tortured and sexually abused a Palestinian youth. The Post reports:

"The two were carrying out searches for a man when they discovered his son. The commander threatened the youth with a loaded rifle, before commanding him to remove his pants and underwear. The two then held a flame near the youth's genitalia. In addition the two are charged with sexually abusing the boy and beating him."