Truthdiggers of the Week: Judges, Prosecutors of Efraín Ríos Montt

[Judi Lynn]

11. You've probably noticed they attempt to distract from the information

by trying to engage DU'ers with personal conflicts, and deflected temporarily from learning the truth.

Your article is important, and I need to repeat the last part for posters who've not run across this part which has always been completely deleted from US corporate media "news" accounts pretending to cover real events:

Israel’s role was confirmed by a member of Israel’s Knesset according to CIABASE files on Death Squads: “Guatemala, 1981-89. Israeli Knesset member General Peled said in Central America Israel is 'dirty work' contractor for U.S. Helped Guatemala regime when Congress blocked Reagan administration. Israeli firm Tadiran (then partly U.S.-owned) supplied Guatemalan military with computerized intelligence system to track potential subversives. Those on computer list had an excellent chance of being ‘disappeared.’”

Many people now prefer to forget that Israel consistently backed South and Central American fascists throughout this period. (And yes, "fascist" is, in this instance, the correct word.) In fact, the Israelis even worked with fugitive Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie during his South American sojourn.

Why were the Israelis operating so heavily in Latin America? To a large degree, they acted as cut-outs for American intelligence.

It takes a lot of research before people usually start bumping into this kind of information.

Thanks for this article.