some thoughts on day 1

[Manuel V. Cabrera Jr.]

    We should stop supporting Israel because it is a corrupt and repressive
government.  It's occupation of Palestinian territories is brutal: Gaza is
surrounded by a giant barbed-wire fence; it is divided into sixty-some-odd
communities themselves surrounded by fences; no Palestinian may pass from one
community to another without security checks, while Israel jews are allowed free
passage;  this latter fact has included ambulances carrying Palestinian patients
in ciritcal condition, resulting in numerous deaths;  the government of Israel
indiscriminantly kills, imprisons, and tortures Palestinians; it
indiscriminantly siezes land and uproots the residents thereof, only to build
jewish settlements;  Palestinians are denied education on a regular basis (e.g.
all schools in the Gaza Strip being closed for three years during the
nineties);  Palestinians are not allowed to own or lease land in Israel;  Israel
chokes and starves the inhabitants of the occupied territories (e.g., while the
vast majority of inhabitants in the occupied territories are Muslim
Palestinians, eighty percent of the little public funding that goes into those
areas benefits the small minority of jewish settlers; Israel assasinates
peaceful Palestinian leaders, journalists and clerics without any
accountability;  Israel covers this up through its infamous policy of screening
all materials gathered by any journalist.  It is nothing less than apartheid.
Why do you think the international community, with the sole exceptions of the
U.S. and Israel, have universally condemned Israel since the conquest of the
occupied territories in 1967, starting with U.N. 242 and followed by dozens upon
dozens of U.N. resolutions thereafter?  THAT is why we should end support of
Israel.

        mandel cabrera

David Morris wrote:

> I guess we should just back away from Israel now that we know how MAD some
> terrorists are at us...  Is that your suggestion?
>
> >From: Arne Herløv Petersen
> >
> >Feeling revengeful is natural, but I think it would be wiser to stifle that
> >impulse. In stead of learning from Northern Ireland and Israel and
> >retaliating - and get into ever widening loops of revenge and retaliation -
> >it might be better to learn from South Africa and try to get on with our
> >lives somehow.
>
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