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Beth Goodtree is a writer specializing in political commentary, Islamism and the Middle East and also writes the occasional science and humor articles. She has a background in advertising and works as a consultant on Islamism and terrorism to a security firm.

Her web site is: http://hometown.aol.com/bgoodtree/

She may be reached at

Bgoodtree@AOL.com
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An underdog waiting for a champion
By Beth Goodtree   January 8, 2004


Wanted: One brave soul from the liberal world establishment to champion an eternally ignored underdog.

Requirements: This champion must be willing to research the facts as presented in accurate historical accounts and constantly and consistently challenge the present-day media spin. This champion must have the mental, emotional, and spiritual fortitude to buck the status quo and search out the truth that has been so conveniently and perniciously concealed by the establishment and so-called 'New World Order.' This champion must be willing to act as David going against a modern-day Goliath of power, money, and big-oil interests.

Rewards: Rewards beyond their wildest dreams. This champion will go down in history as the brave maverick who dared stand up to the established and complacently blind, liberal-thinking community and sacrificed their comfortable standing to support a true underdog against overwhelming odds. I daresay there would even be movies made, songs composed, and books written about this person. There would probably even be a smattering of statues of them throughout the world. Whoever fulfills this job will be immortalized and idealized as long as our society stands.

Client: This underdog client has an irrefutable and documented history -- right up to the present, of being the ideal candidate for underdog status. This client suffers untold and innumerable humiliations on a daily basis, ranging from consistent denial of their aboriginal rights as an indigenous people, to the continual attempt to exterminate them as an entire people.

The media continuously represents this client-victim as the aggressor in each and every murderous attack rained upon them, while presenting the genocidal murderers as noble fighters, bravely slaughtering so-called 'aggressive' women, children, the elderly, etc. going about such daily routines as eating a family meal, attending school, traveling home from work, and even worshipping.

Historically, this client is the oldest established and well-documented indigenous aboriginal people on the planet. Yet this client is unrelentingly represented as a new-coming usurper to their one and only homeland despite the fact that the best-selling book on the planet is proof of the client's ancient ties to their homeland. When some New Guinea natives were forced to move during WWII, no one denied them their right to return to their homeland at the end of the war. Yet this client, many of who's people were forced to flee their native homeland during campaigns of genocide against them, is now facing a denial of their right of return, and even denial of their homeland being theirs since the beginning of recorded history.

Nor is denial of this client's right to their native homeland the worst of it. This client suffers the dubious distinction of being the first to have ever been enslaved. For more than 2 millennia, this client has been the victim of systematic campaigns of genocide. This includes a current vicious, well-financed-by-big-oil campaign to exterminate them at this very moment -- by not less than 1/6 of the planet's population. That's over a billion people who want to wreak genocide upon a minority so small it doesn't even rate a slice on the UN pie chart.

This client has suffered, and continues to suffer, every humiliation and debasement an evil aggressor can invent. Even their very name and history has been stolen, subverted, and claimed by the enemy. It's as if the Native Americans had their name of 'Native American' taken on by the settlers to the New World, who then claimed that they were the real 'Native Americans,' their children having been born upon land which they had stolen from the original inhabitants.

And while everyone knows that Native Americans were truly the first society inhabiting America, despite the fact that they have merely an oral tradition and no written history, this client has proof in written history as well as archaeological digs, proving their claims to their land, and yet it is denied. This client has suffered the humiliation of watching their sacred burial artifacts turned into urinals and paving stones while an uncaring world gives its tacit approval. Even as of this writing, those who would wish to exterminate this underdog are gleefully, minute-by-minute on a daily basis, digging and removing priceless and irreplaceable ancient artifacts from their holiest shrine. And this is being done with the 'established' world's approval.

And as if denial of their aboriginal and indigenous rights is not enough, this client's people are viciously and systematically attacked in many of the countries where they fled to survive the numerous genocidal campaigns. Schoolchildren in France must disguise themselves lest they be set upon by gangs of their enemy's teenagers and mercilessly beaten. In many countries in Europe as well as elsewhere, their homes and businesses are systematically burned to the ground. In at least one country, just being this client gets one a death sentence. In many countries, the people of this client have nowhere near equal rights. They are denied such basic rights as owning property, working in certain professions and even freedom of worship. International statesmen have referred to them as '...that sh*y little country,' or said such things as '.... Fk them, they don't vote for us anyway.'

Never has any group in the history of history itself been so continuously humiliated, degraded, and hunted almost to extinction. Never has any group been so misrepresented and lied about. Never has any other group been the object of a worldwide conspiracy to exterminate a people who's only goals have been to live in peace in their aboriginal homeland. This is a people who have contributed more to the arts, sciences, and religion than any other group, asking nothing in return but to be allowed to survive and thrive.

The client I am referring to are the original Palestinians, written about and referred to as the only Palestinians for thousands of years. The beginning of their current humiliations began when an Egyptian by the name of Mohammed Abdel Rahman al Qudwa al-Husseini changed his name to Yasser Arafat, gathered together a mob of Arab undesirables whose own native countries refused to take them back in for their murderous behavior and renamed them 'Palestinians.'

These original Palestinians, and the only ones with a true claim historically, ethnically and religiously to the land of Palestine are the Hebrew people, the Jews.

So are there any heroes in the liberal, uncaring world willing to fight big oil, international conspiracies, and a well-oiled, well-funded campaign of genocide? If so, for the sake of the last underdog, speak out before it is too late.

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