WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." Unamuno
"Imagine All the People Sharing All the World." John Lennon
"If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees." Father Philip Francis Berrigan
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down." Tom Petty
"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet." Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again" Tom Paine
"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
DO SOMETHING!
Photo of George shown here and in web site banner courtesy of Debbie Hill, 2000.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence
October 4, 2009: When Leaders Fail; We the People Must Lead
The good news is we the people know more than those in charge and in solidarity "we have it in our power to begin the world again."-Tom Paine
There are no secrets on the world wide web and if everyone who reads this makes a phone call, sends a FAX and email to President Obama we will all be a part of the change we want to see;
A world where all people, states and nations are treated equally
A world where there is no hunger or greed
It can be when man beats his swords into plowshares and makes war no more;
It begins with The Truth; for The Truth will set you/US free-John 8:32
On October 2, 2009, The Washington Times reported that "Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes secret [and] reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections." [1]
Three "officials spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were discussing private conversations, said Mr. Obama pledged to maintain the agreement when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in May.
"Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which could require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs.
"The chief nuclear understanding was reached at a summit between President Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir that began on Sept. 25, 1969. Avner Cohen, author of "Israel and the Bomb" and the leading authority outside the Israeli government on the history of Israel's nuclear program, said the accord amounts to "the United States passively accepting Israel's nuclear weapons status as long as Israel does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon."[Ibid]
In 2007, the Nixon library declassified a July 19, 1969, memo from Henry Kissinger, the national security adviser stating: "While we might ideally like to halt actual Israeli possession, what we really want at a minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established international fact."
Another "leading authority" that "established [the] international fact" in 1986, was Mordechai Vanunu who told the truth and provided the proof of Israel's seven story underground WMD Facility that can be viewed on You Tube:
The Israeli and USA government lacked the imagination to comprehend that the truth cannot be shut up or buried "under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."- Emile Zola
America's blind allegiance to the Jewish State-and I use that term because as Vanunu said-"Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew" has resulted in the equivalent of "don't ask, don't tell" but the truth is out there and "the truth will set you/US free."-John 8:32
Silence is complicity and knowledge brings responsibility and if we truly "hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights…to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." The Declaration of Independence
We must rise up, for "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends...I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The only trouble is they are not aware they can get it."-John Lennon
Reading and disseminating information is all well and good; but the highest good is rising up and holding leaders to their promises for "words must mean something" as President Obama promised in Prague when he declared his administration's goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
By Obama's complicity in colluding with Israel's "secret" America's efforts to bring into force the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, are doomed!
An anonymous Senate staffer admitted, that Obama's failure to hold Israel to the same standard as Iran, "calls into question virtually every part of the president's nonproliferation agenda. The president gave Israel an NPT treaty get out of jail free card."[Ibid]
This is not a game of Monopoly we play, but it is the future of all the children of the world that is at stake!
For far too long, the American Government has failed to uphold the values that we the people of this land hold most dear; honesty, integrity, justice, accountability and the rule of law!
For those of US who love America and Israel and desire her Security, we comprehend that only by holding her to the same standards that we hold Iran can America's and Israel's stated goal of achieving a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction is even possible!
We the people are culpable and accountable for what our government does-and does not!
Do Something: Remind the White House that honesty is always the best policy and Israel must open up their WMD Facilities and sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Phone, fax and email the White House and insist that "words must mean something" and a nuclear free Middle East and World includes US and Israel too!
CONTACT President Obama:
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
In 1963, Peres was Israel’s Deputy Minister of Defense and he lied to President Kennedy during a White House meeting.
Kennedy
told Peres, “You know that we follow very closely the discovery of any
nuclear development in the region. This could create a very dangerous
situation. For this reason we monitor your nuclear effort. What could
you tell me about this?”
Peres repLIED, “I can tell you most
clearly that we will not introduce nuclear weapons to the region, and
certainly we will not be the first.”
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
"Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons?
"In
1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not
a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant.
The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’
"Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
"The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona.
"The
Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and
tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was written in French,
when I was there, almost twenty years ago.
"Back then, the
Dimona descended seven floors underground. In 1955, Perez and Guirion
met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they
fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the
war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the
reactor plant deal continued on.
"When Johnson became president,
he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every
year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would
build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From
1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that
hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
"Nixon stopped the
inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel
increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs.
Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year."
"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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