We assert with good authority that this atrocity occurred by a bomb planted by the Israeli Mossad or one of its agents to discredit Chairman Yassir Arafat's peace initiatave which had just been accepted in July or August 1988 by the U.S. but which greatly disturbed Israel since the Israeli-Jews wanted no peace dealing with the PLO or PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat because Arafat and his people known as the Palestinians by the world of nations insisted on a peace only in accord with International Law, the Geneva conventions, the U.N. Charter and U.N Resolutions, 242, 338, 194 and many others which include rights of return for those Palestinians illegally displaced by the Israelis so they could build illegal settlements for Jews only on the stolen land. They wanted all Palestinians out of Palestine or dead. To bear this out, I will continue with documents. Clearly Israel is the unlawful aggressor.
For many years Mr. Arafat had tried to negotiate peace between the Palestinians and the Israeli Jews but he was rejected by both Israel and the U.S. who both said they would not negotiate with "terrorists." Arafat was the leader of the PLO or Palestinian Liberation Organization which is just what the name states. It was and is an organization seeking to liberate the lands of Palestine known as such by the world of nations from the illegal occupation and settlement building by the Israeli-Jews.
Since Israel had and has great military power supplied by the U.S. by depriving Americans and others of the billions a year Israel receives; and Israel is suported by the full assets of the U.S., Arafat was left with 4 choices to attain the Palestinians' moral rights, legal rights and God given rights to freedom and justice against Israel's initiative to seize, occupy and control all of Palestine - and more - from the Red Sea to the Litani River in Lebanon - and baeond.
One: The Palestinians could capitulate and surrender as slaves to Israel. Two: They could flee their homes and lands as hundreds of thousands did when driven out by armed Israeli-Jews. Three: They could stand and fight and die by the hands of Israeli Jews' massive military might and U.S. help. Four: Or they could continue under repressive, brutal occupation and conduct a clandestine terrorist war against Israel, the Jews and Americans for suporting the Israeli occupation and virtual genocide against them.
When denied protection as law requires and then denied justice under the law from illegal occupation, dispossession, seizure of their homes with the summary arrest and torture of many and the killing of those who resisted; the Palestinians resisted using stones, Molotiv cocktails and a few available small arms and later a few small arms given to the PLO police under the Oslo agreement. Israel was allowed to flout the law by Bush, Clinton and Boy Bush because "Israel is America's best friend!" Is it?
The PLO chose the latter course as the only viable means to stay alive with a chance of attaining freedom and justice. They made life so miserable and dangerous in their "terrorist" attacks against the Israeli IDF and illegal settlers that the Israeli-Jews and their U.S. supporters sought relief - that is - all except a radical religious Jewish element and some extreme "right wing" members of Likud seeking their vision of a "greater Israel" meaning an all Jew Palestine at the expense of the Pallestinians.
In the negotiations with the U.S., Arafat promised to cease attacks against Israeli civilions but would continue to fight against the occupation, confiscation and genicide by Israeli-Jews in Palestine. The U.S. accepted this in July or August 1988. Immediately after this I began to hear reports from my Arab connections overseas and in America stating that Israel was generally unhappy at being "forced by the U.S." to accept less than all of Palestine and perhaps have to give up land for peace as per U.N. Proposition 242 to which Israel and the U.S. were obligated. In addition, U.N. Resolution 194 required full rights of return for the displaced Palestinians.
These statements above cannot be refuted becuse they are a matter of record.
Also, immediately I began to hear reports from my "constituents" of my Progressive Liberty Party and Mid East sources that Israel would commit some terrible act - probably against American civilians - to create outrage and discredit Arafat's promise not to attack civilians and make it look like the PLO did it. No specifics were given but after much thought, indications to me were it might be an American aircraft during the Christmas season to have the greatest effect since there had been aircraft hijackings and bombings before and it would be easy to do and very devastating and notorious. Deductions indicated to me an attack on Pan American Airlines, the "flag carrier" and symbol of American superiority.
In view of this - as an airline pilot in danger of attacks by those oppressed by Israel and justifiably angry at Americans, I wrote in September 1988 to the President and and FBI and CIA and the DOS of the U.S. government concerned with foreign policy and security and international relations. I received not one response from my government! Frustraed and worried I wrote again in October without any response from the FBI or anyone else. But in September 1988, I had also written a long letter of two pages single spaced to the editor of The Airline Pilot, the magazine of my union, The Airline Pilots Association with, a copy to Captain Henry A Duffy, the association's president. In it I stressed the dangers of the U.S. supporting Israel's illegal illegal occupation and genocide of Palestinians and that an embargo brought on by the some 41,000 airline pilots could change U.S. policy.
Among many statements in this long letter I commended Captain Testrake of TWA whose aircraft had been hijacked by "terrorists" and wrote: "We saw him, with a gun at is head, calmly negotiating with the jittery terrorists. His actions represent the epitome of professionalism for an airline pilot under stress." I wrote: "As a group - or individually - we have not spoken to our government which, under our pressure, can do nothing but respond. Should we let a small dedicated group of Zionist sympathizers through AIPAC and the ADL leave every American vulnerable to attack? I think not." I then suggested: "An aroused and angry America can end terrorism by insisting the laws be obeyed."
This letter was so long that in an accompanying shorter letter I
suggested the letter be published but that it might be condensed. I also
expressed that the magazine might not print it "... for fear of being called
'bigot' or 'anti Semite by the Zionists and their (Jewish) backers." (In
the U.S.)
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For the first time ever have
these two letters of mine to the U.S. Government and ALPA ever been exposed
to public scruteny until today, Dec. 21, 2002, the 14th Anniversary of
the obscene tragedy when the Israeli Mossad obviously blew Pan Am 103 out
of the sky, killing 159 aboard the plane and 11 on the ground in Lockerbie.
To read the original letters
of Sept.
13, 1988 click here!
But at no time ever did I receive the requested acknowledgment from President Reagan, FBI Director Wm. Sessions, Secretary of State George Schultz or any other official who received my letter. It seems they, like "all the rest" in government and media were afraid to address the issue of flawed U.S. foreign policy in supporting Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine with the murder of those who protested the loss of their homes for all Jew racist settlents leading to attacks on America, Israel and Jews!
However, I received the letter printed below dated 7 days later, Sept. 20, 1988 from The Airline Pilots' Association, the Editor-in-Chief of "The Airline Pilot," Mr. Esperison Martinez, Jr in which he stated it was too long but also said "...it is too politicized for our use." This letter follows.
We all know and were horrified by the bombing and loss of life as Pan Am exploded and fell through the night sky of December 21, 1988 to fall on the little town of Lockerbie where the debris killed 11 innocent people on the ground and the 159 aboard the plane.