- While we're over here, stewing about our election, the
Israeli government continues to kill Palestinians and to strangle the rest
economically simply because the Palestinians have the audacity to demand
an end to 33 years of illegal and military occupation.
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- Let me tell you something else that's interesting: The
United Nations has condemned Israel for using excessive force. The United
Nations Commissioner of Human Rights has condemned Israel for using excessive
force. The Physicians for Human Rights, an independent human-rights organization,
after examining wounds in Palestinian hospitals, has condemned Israel for
using excessive force. Amnesty International has condemned Israel for using
excessive force.
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- The United States secretary of state, Madeleine Albright,
says, however, that Israel is a victim of aggression and is only defending
itself.
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- Now that lady is either nutty or evil. If she's so disconnected
from reality that she thinks that people with no army, whose dead number
250 and whose wounded exceed 5,000, are a threat to the most powerful military
state in the Middle East, she's nutty. If she's deliberately lying, she's
evil.
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- Furthermore, if the United States government treated
American Indians or blacks in precisely the same way in every detail that
the Israeli government treats Palestinians, people would be screaming to
high heaven.
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- I confess I'm mystified how decent Americans can condone
the brutality and abuse that Israel inflicts on innocent Palestinians.
If you're thinking that you don't have the right to criticize a foreign
government, let me set you straight: Your government has given a cumulative
total of 85 billion of your tax dollars through the years to the Israeli
government. I think that buys you a right to criticize.
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- The truth is, I fear, that Palestinians won't get their
independence until Americans get theirs. The Israeli occupation forces
hold down the Palestinians, and our government appears to be the captive
of the Israeli lobby. You might write your congressman and senators and
remind them that they ran for office in the United States, not in Israel,
and that they took an oath to defend America, not Israel. You might also
tell them that it is not in our national interest to be seen the world
over as a flaming hypocrite, nor is it in our national interest to alienate
1.1 billion Muslims who happen to control more than 60 percent of the world's
oil reserves.
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- As an aside, let me clear up a matter. In reprimanding
a politician for a racist slur against Palestinians who had killed two
Israeli undercover agents, I suggested that he use the same slur against
Israeli killers of Palestinians. The case I cited was a man whom people
in Ramallah believe was kidnapped and beaten to death either by settlers
or Israeli soldiers. The Physicians for Human Rights, at the request of
an Israeli human-rights group, examined the X-rays and pictures, talked
with doctors and family, and came to the conclusion that his injuries were
caused by an automobile accident. All of the Palestinian doctors involved
in the case, however, disagree with the report and say they plan to issue
their own report. So there you have it: a medical disagreement.
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- At any rate, examples of Israelis killing Palestinians
are plentiful enough. There are the children shot to death, not to mention
the 28 Palestinian men and women killed by a Jewish settler in Hebron a
few years ago. When the Israeli terrorist paused to change magazines in
his weapon, surviving Palestinians overpowered him and beat him to death
with his own rifle. The other Israeli settlers who were mighty proud of
their mass killer turned his grave into a shrine. >
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