That’s not just some kind of game board slogan, it’s the
daily policy and practice of the state of Israel.
Trump keeps suggesting that he wants peace between Israel
and the Palestinians, but offers no plan that has a chance of working,
precisely because Israel has no interest in peace. What Israel wants is
Palestinian land for its settlements… and water. Why settle for peace when
Palestinians can be controlled by targeted assassination, home demolitions,
road blocks, check points, settler violence and the blockade of Gaza.
All Israel has to do, according to Amon Sofer of Haifer
University, is to treat Palestinians like animals.
Seal the territory off from the outside
world and shoot anyone who tries to break out. When 2.5 million people live in
a closed off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will
become even bigger animals than they are today. So, if we want to remain alive,
we will have to kill and kill and kill,
all day, every day.[1]
Surely one would hope that was just the rantings of one
fanatic and not to be taken seriously.
On Monday, May 14, in Gaza, Israeli
snipers shot and killed 60 Palestinians, including 6 children – and injured
almost 3,000 others amid scenes of smoke, fire, teargas, dust, agony and blood.
These are the children and
grandchildren of those who were driven from their homes during the ethnic
cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to make room for the new State of Israel. Their only crime was not being Jews.[2]
No matter how you look at it, with the blind backing of the
U.S., Israel wins. With one very important exception. Israel is losing the
support of young American Jews
Jared Kushner does not represent the majority of young
American Jews. The New York Jewish Week reported a survey of 4000 Modern
Orthodox Jews:
One of the study’s most concerning
findings, experts say, is a decrease in emotional connection and active support
of Israel…while 71 percent of those 55 and older actively support the Jewish
state, less than half – 43 percent – of Jews 18 to 34 do the same.[3]
Robert Herbst, civil rights lawyer
and political activist, affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace said,
Today, I am ashamed to be Israeli.
– young Jewish snipers deliberately shooting down unarmed Gazans gathered in
protest at the border fence that helps keep them confined in the largest
open-air prison in the world, killing 18 and wounding more than 1,000 is an
unspeakable, unlawful outrage.[4]
Since Herbsy wrote those words on April 4, 2018, the number
of casualties has greatly risen. To date, Israel snipers have killed 214 and wounded
over 18,000.[5]
Thomas Are
November 15, 2018
[1]. Kill and kill and Kill, By Saree Makdisi, Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs, June/July,2018. P. 8.
[2] Kill and kill and Kill, By Saree Makdisi, Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs, June/July,2018. P. 8.
[3] Support for Israel is tumbling – even among young Orthodox Jews,
Mondoweiss.net, 10/1/ 2017.
[5] Google: Gaza protest: All the Latest Updates,
Palestinian News/ Al Jezeera.
As long as the U.S. continues to send about TEN MILLION DOLLARS a day to Israel, how can any Palestinian believe that ANY U.S. President truly wants peace between Palestine and Israel? just wondering...
ReplyDeleteYou are one sicko that has lost his Biblical way. Self proclaimed liberal lizard as I grew up always saying the only good red was a dead red.
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