Let’s be clear. Who are the gangsters? Who simply chooses to
ignore even its own laws when it is convenient to do so?
The Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory
clearly states:
An occupying
power cannot transfer civilian population to an occupied territory, and is
considered illegal.
Sounds pretty clear: Israel’s settlements are totally
illegal. But, in Israel, unlike any other government in the world, if you don’t
like a law, just ignore it. Kids playing
on the beach at Tel Aviv have no idea that just about an hour’s drive across
the way, their government is keeping millions of people locked up behind cement
barrows and barbed wire fences so they cannot get out and be noticed. Of course
they could know if they chose to, but lying to themselves is the only way to
live conscience free. It’s a gang mentality, a group of people who join forces
to bully others and to offer each other a rationale for their lawless
racketeering, according to Webster...
So, Israel continues to demolish Palestinian homes, uproot their
olive trees, lock up their children in military prisons, steal Palestinian
water and land, while all the time hoping that by keeping them behind a wall
will keep the world from knowing or caring.
However, my major concern is not with Israel. Israel is its
own problem. My anger is with my own
country, the United States, which continues to support Israel’s atrocities to
the tune of billions of dollars every year, continues to veto U.N. resolutions
condemning Israel’s crimes, and all the time hoping a wall will keep the world
from knowing.
When I speak or write about Israel, my friends ask, is there
any hope? The answer is “yes.” The
gangsters do not intimidate the younger Jews in America or the younger Jews in
Israel who are no longer dead locked in covering up for Israel as were their parents. I call that hope.
Thomas Are
February 2, 2019
Its basically there to keep the real owners out
ReplyDeleteThe salvation of the people of the western world hinges on the salvation of the Palestinian people. Palestine is not the only Zionist occupied country!
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ReplyDeleteThen Secretary of State for India and the British cabinet's only Jewish member, Lord Edwin Montagu's response to Prime Minister Lloyd George following issuance of the illegal 1917 Balfour Declaration: "All my life I have been trying to get out of the ghetto. You want to force me back there."
In 1919, Henry Morgenthau Sr., former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, left no doubt as to where he stood on Zionism: “Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history…. The very fervour of my feeling for the oppressed of every race and every land, especially for the Jews, those of my own blood and faith, to whom I am bound by every tender tie, impels me to fight with all the greater force against this scheme, which my intelligence tells me can only lead them deeper into the mire of the past, while it professes to be leading them to the heights. Zionism is… a retrogression into the blackest error, and not progress toward the light.” (Quoted by Frank Epp, Whose Land is Palestine? p. 261)
Asked to sign a petition supporting settlement of Jews in Palestine, Sigmund Freud declined: "I cannot...I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state....It would have seemed more sensible to me to establish a Jewish homeland on a less historically-burdened land....I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby offending the feelings of the natives." (Letter to Dr. Chaim Koffler Keren HaYassod, Vienna: 2/26/30)
In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote: “There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people.... Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.” (Einstein and Zionism by Banesh Hoffmann, in General Relativity and Gravitation, eds G. Shaviv and J. Rosen, Wiley, 1975, p. 242)
Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, 1944: “The concept of a racial state – the Hitlerian concept- is repugnant to the civilized world, as witness the fearful global war in which we are involved. . . , I urge that we do nothing to set us back on the road to the past. To project at this time the creation of a Jewish state or commonwealth is to launch a singular innovation in world affairs which might well have incalculable consequences.”
I agree that there is hope with the younger generation. Still, though, there are far too many Americans who equate criticism of Israel with "Anti-Semitism". The line has been cleverly drawn between Judaism (as in Religion) with Israel (as in country). imo
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