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21 Feb 2012 By Keith Johnson Based on a fable from the Old Testament Book of
Esther, the Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the
slaughter of 75,000 Persians and the hanging of
Persian Prime Minister Hamam and his ten sons. Purim is perhaps the only religious holiday that
celebrates death, destruction, and pagan decadence. It
is more akin to Halloween than Christmas–where rowdy
party animals dress like Gene Simmons from KISS,
drink like Charles Bukowski, and wander through town
looking for trouble like soccer hooligans whose team
just won (or lost) an important match. For more on this violent holiday, and its
significance to Zionism, I suggest you read this,
this and this. This year, Purim will be celebrated from sunset,
March 7 until nightfall, March 8. Over the last twenty years, some of the most
egregious war crimes and massacres committed by—or on
behalf of—the Israelis have occurred during this
holiday. It begs to wonder what they'll be up to this
Purim? Is it just a mere coincidence that the FBI has
announced that they will be restricting internet
access during that time? According to Activist Post: "This March 8th, the FBI is planning to unplug
DNS servers it set up to help eliminate malware from
over half of Fortune 500 companies and government
agencies still infected in early 2012. The change
could potentially leave a great number of Internet
users without access to the Web." This wouldn't be the first time the FBI shut down
parts of the World Wide Web in the lead up to a major
event. Just a few days before September 11, 2001 the
FBI was busy raiding Muslim-owned Internet companies
and pulling the plug on a number of Islamic websites.
Could the FBI's recent announcement be the prelude to
a similar crackdown…perhaps in a lead up to an attack
on Iran? Here is a short (but by no means exhaustive) list
of some of the more notorious bloody events that
transpired while Purim was being celebrated: Bombing of Libya—March
19, 2011—US and British forces launch "Operation
Odyssey Dawn," firing more than 115 Tomahawk cruise
missiles on Libyan targets near Benghazi. The
seven-month military assault ultimately resulted in
the almost complete annihilation of Libya, the brutal
assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, and the deaths of as
many as 30,000 people. Iraq War—March 17,
2003—Then-President George W. Bush issues a 48-hour
ultimatum to Saddam Hussein and his sons to either
leave Iraq or brace for invasion. An air strike on the
Presidential Palace in Baghdad came two days later.
The resulting attack led to a bloody eight-year war
that "officially" ended last year—but is still going
on—with no end in sight! Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre—February
25, 1994—Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein, a member of
the far-right Israeli Kach, opened fire on unarmed
Palestinian Muslims praying at the Ibrahim Mosque in
Hebron. In addition to the 29 killed and 125 injured
at the scene, 19 more Palestinians were killed by the
Israeli Defense Forces following riots and protests
that erupted throughout the West Bank. The Highway of Death—February
28, 1991— Under a white flag of surrender, Iraqi
troops were making their way back from Kuwait to Iraq
when they came under attack by U.S. military ground
and air units. Somewhere between 50,000 to 150,000
were slaughtered on what was later referred to as "The
Highway of Death." According to investigative
journalist and author Sherman H. Skolnick, "U.S.
Military bulldozers were ordered by Bush to bury these
slaughtered surrendering Iraqi troops, some of them
still alive, in mass, unmarked graves in the desert." |