Friday, March 15, 2019

Letter to the Editor, Palestinians Do Exist


PALESTINIANS DO EXIST

I read with interest Wednesday’s AJC DIGGING DEEPER article, “Mideast Conflict Flares up in Fulton School over Map,” with the subtitle, “Display Seems to Show Palestine Before Israel.”   The article was condemned as “a slight to Israel.” In other words, to simply acknowledge the existence of Palestinians raises sticky questions. The school Principal immediately apologized in spite of the fact that some of his students were Palestinian-Americans.  

Fifty years ago, Golda Meir said:

It was not as though there was a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country. They did not Exist.[i]

Which is exactly what they did and Israel has been singing her song ever since. However, the Palestinians are still there in spite of illegal settlements in the West Bank and the cruel occupation of Gaza.

Thomas Are
March 15, 2019
678-684-3765




[i] Quoted in Sunday Times (June 15, 1969), also in The Washington Post. (June 16, 1969)

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  2. When Palestine is mentioned in the Balfour Declaration; on the so called "Israel Declaration of Independence" [Independence from whom] which was proclaimed by Ben Gurion - himself the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine - its pretty evil of these impostors in Palestine to genocide them off the map

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  3. Palestine has seen off many occupiers throughout the ages; all transient and the Frankenstein state is no different; here today gone tomorrow. It is only a matter of time.

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  4. Striking similarity...all things considered!

    Joseph Goebbels:

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

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