Netanyahu says, “We want peace with the Palestinians but they teach their
children to hate us and to try to destroy the state of Israel.” When someone asked about the settlements,
he answered that the settlements were not an issue. It’s just that they teach
their children to hate.
Netanyahu and Trump gushed all over each other bragging
about how Israel and the US value life and live by the same moral standards.
Yet, any eye witness who visits Palestine will tell you that
settlements are the issue.
Come into my neighborhood, knock down my house, build hundreds
of Jewish only apartments on my land, surround it with Jewish only roads, keep
me boxed into a small bantustan and it would be an issue with me.
I wish just one of the reporters in the Netanyahu/Trump news
conference would have brought up the fact that Israel destroys Palestinian
homes by the hundreds, steals 80 percent of Palestinian water, has built a
separation wall, snaking down through the West Bank separating doctors from
their hospitals, farmers from their fields and children from their schools. I
wish someone would have had the integrity to ask about the number and treatment
of Palestinians, including children, in Israeli
prisons, Someone could have asked about the skunk juice sprayed on Palestinian
homes, the uprooting of Palestinian olive trees and the hundreds of check
points.
I wish someone would have asked about Israel’s bombardment with
planes and tanks and missiles from ships on the unarmed people of Gaza whom
Israel keeps locked up like animals in an open air prison. Someone should have
asked how Israel feels about the number of children who were left homeless and
with no way to fight off the freezing cold of winter. And why does Israel deliberately
limit the number of calories allowed for each person.
Netanyahu doesn’t care and Trump doesn’t have a clue. Mix
apathy with stupidity and the outlook will be grim, every time.
When those two talk about shared values, they are not
talking about my values or the values of any faithful Jew I know.
Thomas Are
February 16, 2017
Very good words Mr Are, thank you. The oppresion and systematic violation by Israel of the human rights of the Palestinians has been going on for decades.
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