1990’s
1990 Nelson Mandella released from life sentence in prison. Will be elected President of South Africa. (He remained on the US terrorist list until 2008).
June 21, 1990 Nelson Mandella -Town Hall interview: With Mandella and Ted Koppel. Brilliant inteview. Zionist plant in the audience tried to dismiss him for supporting Arafat. Mandella: “It is a mistake that some political analysts make to think their enemies should be our enemies.” Crowd cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQIEIRLU1Y
October 08, 1990 Israeli occupation troops slaughter 22 Palestinians in Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
December, 1990 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister at the time, claims Iraq has a nuclear program that was ‘fast accelerating’. Tells Americans it’s an international threat. (Doesn’t mention Israel has nuclear weapons).
1990-1991 Due to America’s Persian Gulf Wars 250,000 Palestinians who were working in Gulf states and sending money home, are expelled from those countries, causing economic hardship in Palestine.
August 1991:Arafat asks Sudan to host a meeting between Fatah and Hamas in Khartoum. Tries to co-opt Hamas into PLO by offering 2 seats in Palestinian National Council (under the PLO) Hamas rejects this on the grounds that seats should be elected by the voters not PLO. Also, Hamas didn’t trust the upcoming Madrid process since the US and Israel held most of the cards.
October 30 to Nov. 1, 1991 Madrid Conference: Brokered by US and USSR. Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel. Israel refused to attend if PLO was invited. US invited negotiators from Gaza and West Bank in place of PLO. Negotiators spent the time in close contact with PLO in Tunis.
December 1992: Israel seizes 420 Palestinians; including medical doctors, university professors, students, and clergy, many of them members of Hamas, ties their hands, blindfolds them, drives them into Israel’s self-proclaimed ‘security zone’ inside Lebanon, and leaves them there on a hillside in a rainstorm. Israel’s objective was to break the resistance and remove the upper echelon of Palestinian society who might object to Arafat giving away Palestinian rights and lands to Israel. This was a seminal event in the evolution of Hamas. Israel told them to keep moving north. Hamas stayed put in tough winter conditions near a mountain village. Garnering international support.
24 December 1992: With snow on the ground Larry King does a live broadcast with Hamas members. Another ‘own goal’ for Israel.
April 16, 1993 Mehola Juction Bombing — first Palestinian suicide bombing
July 25, 1993: ‘Operation Accountability’ Israel invades Lebanon again. Week-long invasion displaced 300,000 Lebanese.
September, 13, 1993 Oslo Peace Accords signed. AkA ‘Oslo I’ Arafat an Yitzhak Rabin sign letters of mutual recogniton that had very different messages. Arafat’s letter said PLO accepted UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and recognized the state of Israel to exist in peace and security. Rabin’s letter just said Israel had deigned to rexognizew the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. Oslo was supposed to resolve the conflict by granting limited self-government to Palestinians for five years after which Israel would adhere to UN Resolution 242 and withdraw to the 1967 borders. [Thirty-one years later, that has not happened.]
1993 250,000 Jewish colonists in West Bank.
February, 25,1994: American/Jewish/terrorist Baruch Goldstein wearing an Israeli army uniform, bearing machine guns with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, attacks the Cave of the Patriarchs where hundreds of Muslims are at prayer. Kills dozens, wounds over one hundred before stalwart worshipers overpower him and beat him to death. Israeli occupation troops respond by attacking Palestinians killing many of them and placing 120,000 Palestinians on curfew. [Side Note: By coincidence, or maybe not, the massacre took place during two holidays. 1) the Muslim Holiday of Ramadan which celebrates Muhammad receiving the Quaran. Muslims are required to fast, pray, and exercise charity. 2) The Jewish festival of Purim–celebrating Jews killing 75,000 non-Jews, including women and children, as described in the book of Esther. According to the story, Esther was a concubine of King Ahasuerus (aka Xerxes). The King’s advisor Haman wanted to exterminate the Jews. Esther and her cousin Mordechai convinced the King to let the Jews massacre Haman, his ten sons, the 75,000 innocent people, and various others instead. This slaughter is viewed by Jews as–wait for it–self-defense.]
1995 ‘Smoke Them Out’ McWhorter turns 30
September 28, 1995 Oslo II Agreement signed by Arafat and Rabini in Washington DC. The Agreement broke the West Bank into Areas A, B, C. The largest, Area C is controlled completely by Israel, Area B was nominally under joint control, Area A was to be completely under Palestinian control. In reality, Area A and Area B are not contiguous. They’re broken up into islands sitting within Area C. As of this writing in 2024 Israel controls the entire West Bank, committing raids, attacks, killings, woundings, imprisonments, home demolitions and more, at will.
November, 04, 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Israeli Jewish fanatic following Benjamin Netanyahu’s incitements against Rabin. Rabin had been making steps towards peace between Israel and Palestine. Small steps, perhaps, baby steps, but in that direction.
November 22, 1995: Israel grants US traitor Jonathan Pollard citizenship. Even though he’s still in US prison.
1996 Netanyahu forms the ‘Israel Christian Advocacy Council.’
1996: ‘Operation Grapes of Wrath’ Israel invades Lebanon again. In it’s ongoing attempts to depopulate southern Lebanon, Israel launches a 16-day invasion that displaced up to 500,000 people.
1996: Qana Massacre: Part of the Lebanon invasion; an IDF screw-up named Naftali Bennett got his unit into a fire fight with Lebanese fighters. According to Isareli sources Bennett had disobeyed orders which resulted in the firefight. Being faced with real enemies who could shoot back, Bennett panicked and called in an artillery strike on a United Nations compound nearby where hundreds of innocent people were huddled for shelter from the fighting. The Jewish State Army used proximity rounds, designed to explode before they hit the ground in order to maximize casualties. Bennett’s folly killed over a hundred innocent people, mostly women and children. On investigation, the Israelis first claimed they didn’t know who was in the compound. Turned out someone had taken a photo of an Israeli drone monitoring exactly who was in the compound. Caught in the lie, the Israelis next claimed it was an accident. That fell apart, too as UN inspectors pinpointed how the Israelis deliberately walked the rounds into the compound. Naftali Bennett would later boast, “I’ve killed a lot of Arabs in my life and there’s no problem with that.” After he said that, Israelis elected Nafatli Bennett Prime Minister of Israel.
1996: Israel receives
*7 times as much US aid as all of black Africa:
*6 times as much as the US spent on famine relief for the entire planet.
At the same time:
1996: America cuts 5.7 billion to programs for America’s poor.
1996: Aid to Israel–5.5 Billion
*4 times as much as AIDS research which has killed more Americans than the Vietnam War.
1966: *all the funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, since it was created in 1966 is less than Israel receives in 6 months.
*cuts in PBS funding ($10 million) equal 16 hours of aid to Israel.
June 08, 1997: Speaking at Arlington National Cemetary on the 30th Anniversary of Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty, Captain William McGonagle says the attack wasn’t a case of mistaken identity and calls for answers from Israel and the United States.
September 23, 1997: Israeli death squad terrorists, under orders from Benjamin Netanyahu, try to assassinate political leader of Hamas movement Khaled Meshaal while he’s walking his children to school in Jordan. They spray an unknown poison in his ear. Meshal’s body guard runs down two of the terrorists and fights them to a standstill. When another Palestinian steps in to help the body guard, and the fight is 1 to 1, the Israelis give up. The King of Jordan is furious. Says he’ll put the terrorists on trial if Meshaal dies. Netanyahu tries to bluff (!) claiming the terrorists have diplomatic immunity. King Hussein lets Baby Netanyahu know who the King is. Surrounds Israeli embassy with tanks. Netanyahu calls the White House to bail him out. President Clinton disgusted with Baby Netanyahu, who caves. Says he’ll send the antidote but by that time Jordanian doctors have figured out what the toxin is and provided the antidote.
1997 Founder of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin released from Israeli prison after King Hussein of Jordan demands it in return for Jordan releasing the two Mossad agents who tried to kill Khaled Meshal.
1997: Leahy Law approved by Congress: Patrick Leahy (D. VT) introduces law that would ban funding countries committing ‘gross violations of human rights.’ Originally intended to reign in brutal regimes committing atrocities against funded by the US
1998 Glenn Loury turns 50
1998 Congress expands Leahy Law to cover all State Department assistance: This is why, Glenn, to this day, when Israel commits ‘gross violations of human rights’ we hear toadies from the American State Department say, “We haven’t found any evidence of gross violations of human rights.” That contemptible verbiage is no coincidence because were they to admit Israel is committing gross violations of human rights, they’d be admitting the US government is in violation of American law by bankrolling Israel and there’d be calls to shut it down.
April 10, 1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Ireland. This Agreement between Protestants and Catholics mostly ended the ‘Irish Troubles’ that had been going on for more than 30 years would be held up as a potential model for peace between Palestine and Israel. [That comparison fails because, with Palestine/Israel, all the parts that caused the Troubles are in place while few of the parts that led to Good Friday Agreement are in place.]
1999: Jerry Falwell pledges that “…200,000 evangelical ministers would keep Congress from pressuring Israel to concede more territory to the Palestinians.”