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About William A. Cook

William A. Cook is a professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California. His most recent book is Decade of Deceit: 2002-2012 Reflections on Palestine. His other works include Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy, The Rape Of Palestine: Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied, and The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction all dealing with the crisis in Israel/Palestine. His fiction works include The Chronicles Of Nefaria, a morality tale, The Agony of Colin Powell, a one act play, and a co-authored tragedy written with his wife Darcy, The Unreasoning Mask. He also has a Book of Psalms published by Mellon Poetry Press, Psalms for the 21st Century. He can be reached at wcook@laverne.edu or through his web site: www.drwilliamacook.com.

Author Archive | William A. Cook

Human Rights, Israel, War Crimes, Zionism
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William A. Cook: Neither Justice Nor Morality – Just Impunity From Crimes Against Humanity

Until and unless we eradicate injustice, we have no reason to know beauty, for all that we create is tainted by that injustice pretending all is well with our world. Truth does not exist if injustice surrounds us and we are silent in our complicity. Proclaiming moral virtue in a world awash in crimes against humanity is condoning the crimes unless we act to eradicate the crimes.

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Israel, UK, Zionism
Palestine holocaust

William A. Cook: Verbal Defecation Buries Jews Truth

If truth be told, it did not take “a few years” for the Jews to inflict “unbelievable levels of persecution” on the indigenous people of Mandate Palestine; the persecution began in earnest in 1939 against the British, the British Mandate Government established in 1922 by the League of Nations to maintain order and peace in Palestine. The Zionists undertook “a war against the British Mandate Government, its Police and Soldiers” while it lobbied and subverted the MP’s in Westminster with propaganda and money.

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Human Rights, Israel, United States
Obama Vacant Occupation

William A. Cook: Universalism and Individualism versus Tribalism

this country has chosen to support the increasingly undemocratic state of Israel, the ever increasing tribalism that is pushing that state into a theocracy that denies the universalism of all human kind and imposes a set of beliefs that threaten to destroy the very concept of individual rights. America invests untold billions of dollars into this state ostensibly because it is democratic, a democratic friend in the mid-east, and it adheres to America’s core values. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Christianity, Israel, Palestine

William A. Cook: The Burial of Bethlehem

The illegal Israeli (read Jewish) 8 metre high apartheid barrier is designed not for security but the theft of 80% of Bethlehem’s land to build a ring of illegal Jewish settlements. Why is the world so silent?

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Featured Articles, Israel, United States
israel impunity

William A. Cook: From the City of Destruction to the Promised Land

The path to the Promised lands is the path that avoids wanton destruction of the kind the United States and Israel have wrought in the mid-east, where cooperation, compassion and concern for all is the peace all deserve.

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Israel, Opinion, Palestine

Justice and Peace as Defined by the Jewish State

No longer can it run to the US veto to maintain impunity in crime, no longer must the people of Palestine be ignored, no longer can this world body live with the lies, the distortions, the deceit used by the Jewish nation to control all the peoples of the earth.

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Christianity, Israel, Palestine, United States

At Last, the True Ministers of God Have Spoken-Hallelujah!

Christian leaders in the United States question the continuation of unconditional US financial assistance to the government of Israel. Demand just and lasting peace.

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Iran, Israel, Videos, War, Zionism

The Think Tank Clown: Israel Lobbyist Patrick Clawson – We Need a False Flag to Start War with Iran!

Watch Clown Clawson amble to the podium, nonchalantly glancing to his presumed peers who sit at either side of the podium awaiting his intervention and words of wisdom as they face a crisis of apparent calamity, how to force the United States to attack Iran.

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Featured Articles, Iran, Israel, Politics, War, Zionism

Netanyahu and the World: The Wind and the Sun

What moral right does Netanyahu refer to when his state has been operating without morals for 63 years? How strange, yet frighteningly real it is that a person’s life can be tracked by madness inflicted by one on utter strangers or on innocents made enemies to further the madness.

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Democracy, Featured Articles, Israel, Palestine, United States, Zionism

The Judas Kiss: Politics of Betrayal

Each of our brave candidates crawled down the blood red carpet to AIPAC’s golden podium to declare their allegiance and fidelity to the Zionist State, outdoing each other in obsequies and obedience.

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Human Rights, Israel, Opinion, Palestine, Terrorism, United States

America’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

“Violence begets violence, hatred begets hatred, terrorism begets terrorism,” so rings the prophetic knell of the Reverend Wright to his congregation one of whom happened to be our current President Barack Obama. Would that he had listened, for if any man was ever elected to the office of President to change the world, this was the man and he has failed.

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Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, United States

Obama at the UN: the Speech that Might Have Been

My friends, it is time to speak truth to power. A postscript introduces this talk: “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” I have had to face the excoriating judgment of Frederick Douglass, “There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices , more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour”.

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Israel, Palestine

Nakba: a Remembrance

I share this tent of sorrow and of shame,
The darkness in the soul, the guilt and blame,
A seared image of suffering and pain–
The curse of Cain rises– once again.

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Egypt, Israel, Politics, Tunisia

As The Dominoes Flow Toward Israel

How strange to watch our CNN talking heads, especially the Israeli trained Wolf Blitzer, former editor of AIPAC’s in house “Near East Report,” stuttering before the cameras as he recalled the fall of the Shah of Iran, America’s staunch ally for 25 years, as a direct result of similar riots by Iranian civilians, and the resulting loss of America’s control in Iran. He failed to mention that our friend had subjugated the Iranian people beneath the boots of his SAVAK mercenaries that protected his elegant life style while the people suffered under his despotic regime. Then as now our Presidents spoke of America’s support of human rights neglecting to mention the CIA’s overthrow of the elected nationalist (1951) Mohammed Mossadegh as Prime Minister.

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Israel, Multimedia, Palestine, United States, War Crimes, Zionism

A Reply To Rupert Murdoch – Hiding Truth Behind Euphemisms, Omissions, Slanders And Lies

Not content with such slander against innocent people indignant at the unconscionable brutality of the Israeli war machine, Murdoch chooses to slide silently by the horrific massacres inflicted on the people of Palestine during the Nakba, insisting that Israel suffered decades of “straightforward” military force by those attempting to “overrun Israel.” He should read the reality of those days as described by Dr. Ilan Pappe in his work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. This was the beginning of the genocide against the Palestinians as recorded in The Plight of the Palestinians recently published by Palgrave Macmillan that continues to this day.

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Israel, Palestine, Peace, Zionism

One Wall, Two People, No States: the Peace Pretense

If the future state of the Palestinians is a mirage, the present Israeli State mocks the definition of a nation State; a true state has jurisdiction over a given territory. The state of Israel refuses the demarcation of its borders and refuses to abide by the United Nations resolutions that demand it return the land it has illegally occupied to the people of Palestine. Given this defiance, the possibility of establishing “two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side” can be construed as nothing less than hypocrisy.

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Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

Return to Shatila

“O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days’ conference With the dead!” (John Webster, IV.ii.18.) “The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.” (Tennyson, “In the Valley of Cauteretz”) By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Twenty eight years ago, a scene of unspeakable horror rocked [...]

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Gaza, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, Turkey, War Crimes, Zionism

Protecting America’s Security from the USS Liberty to the Freedom Flotilla

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “We do not need to apologize for defending ourselves. The armada of hate and violence is merely one manifestation of the constant provocation Israel faces.” (Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel) Only a member of the Netanyahu Court could stand before the TV cameras of [...]

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History, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

A Nation Born in Deception

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As Israel attempts today to gloss over the reality of its birth 62 years ago with a sweeping public relations campaign extolling the miraculous “resurrection” of ancient Zion in contemporary times, a new nation seeking only peace with its neighbors, it might be enlightening and valuable [...]

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Israel, Palestine, UK, Zionism

Rule by Law or Defiance

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Unauthorized statements have been made to the effect that the purpose in view is to create a wholly Jewish Palestine. . . . His Majesty’s Government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view. Nor have they at any time contemplated [...]

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Israel, Palestine, Videos, War Crimes, Zionism

Selling Cell Phones with Soccer Balls and Criminal Walls

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxons recorded in his diary: ‘The English brought a soccer ball from the trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued. How marvellously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the same way about it. Thus Christmas, the [...]

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Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Racism, Zionism

Anti-Semitism: Silencing The Messenger Of Truth With Canada’s “Hate Provisions”

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As an American living under Bush’s Military Commission’s Act, I feel a bit unnerved when charged with “allegations” of hate crimes issued by Canada’s Council on Human Rights, “allegations” made by an unidentified group against the editors of “Peace, Earth and Justice,” (PEJ Internet publications), and [...]

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Featured Articles, Israel, Terrorism, United States, War Crimes, Zionism

William A. Cook – Rethinking “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Five decades ago, the “Pied Piper of Tucson,” a psychopathic killer, roamed the streets of this Southwest city seeking, seducing and killing teen-aged girls. Strangely, teenagers throughout the Tucson area that knew of his lawless and abnormal behavior kept silent, saying nothing to parents or police. [...]

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, War Crimes, Zionism

A Christmas Remembrance

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “The white civilized man (is) the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.” (Herman Melville, 1840s) In 1841, Melville sailed aboard the Acushnet, a whaling vessel, on a three year trip to the South Seas. By July of 1842, Melville and a shipmate, Toby [...]

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Featured Articles, History, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Zionism

William A. Cook – Walled in by Myth and Deceit

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Ben Gurion “…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into a unified people, and tie the younger generation to the land.” (Shlomo [...]

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Featured Articles, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, Zionism

William A. Cook – Zionist Control of Britain’s Government: 1940-2009

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “After so many years of setting the tone, bribing UK politicians and controlling the BBC they (Zionists) are used to being untouchable.” (Gilad Atzmon, “Britain Must de-Zionist Itself Immediately,” Nov. 17, 2009, MWC News). This week the British people listened to the Daily Mail’s Peter Oborne [...]

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

A Nation of Golems

By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Even the most perfect of Golem, risen to life to protect us, can easily change into a destructive force. Therefore let us treat carefully that which is strong, just as we bow kindly and patiently to that which is weak. Everything has its time and place.” [...]

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Featured Articles, History, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Politics, United States, War Crimes, Zionism

William A. Cook – Where Is Frederick Douglass When You Need Him?

Or The Return of Reverend Jeremiah Wright By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.” (Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” 1852) [...]

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Israel, Palestine, Politics, Regional, United States

Ministers of War

Criminals of the Cloth By WILLIAM A. COOK Perhaps we have not paid enough attention to Exodus and have lost, therefore, the import of General “Jerry” Boykin’s words to the evangelical Christians as reported in the LA Times on the 16th, “We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God [...]

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