In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.
None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying
The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.
Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so
silently
Israeli Nukes
Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986?
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a
textile factory.
But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years
Israel would not even allow any American government official to
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).
Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program:
1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.
1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC)
under the authority of Defense Ministry. Development of
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.
1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear cooperation agreement.
1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa.
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.
1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and plutonium separation
plant.
1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel
Institute of Technology (Technion).
1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa
begin.
1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission,
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol cuts a deal with President
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear
test in Negev.
1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of
having nuclear weapons.
1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment
(laser method).
1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during
Yom Kippur War.
1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear
agreement forged.
1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S. intervention.
1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion signature.
1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq.
References:
1. Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN
0-915597-77-2.
2. Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.
3. Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books,
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma].
4. Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York,
NY 1977.
5. Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1.
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA).
6. Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x.
7. Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5
It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the
entire world.
Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq
only and not a state like Israel?
