some thoughts on day 1

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

"Manuel V. Cabrera Jr." 

>     We should stop supporting Israel because it is a corrupt and
>     repressive
> government."

how about mentioning that it is the ONLY representative 
democracy in the region, whose leaders are directly accoutnable to 
their people......how many Israeli PM have come and gone since 
Arafat took over the PLO? How about since Hafez Assad came to 
power in Syria, or maybe the hashemite Hussein family in Jordan....

  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, "

could that be because the PLO charter has, until very recently (if 
now) called for the destruction of the jewish state? and that the 
PLO has shamelessly used their own people and children as 
fodder in a Pan Arabic war against the jewish presence in the 
Levant?

while Israel jews are allowed free passage;  this latter fact
> has included ambulances carrying Palestinian patients in ciritcal
> condition, resulting in numerous deaths; "

numerous stories, few facts....

 the government of Israel
> indiscriminantly"

oh, really? WHat do you call the killing style made popular by the 
"footsoldiers" of the PLO.....have you ever heard of an Israeli, who 
having murdered palestinian children, is praised as a martyr?

 kills, imprisons, and tortures Palestinians;

this palestinians are more than willing to do to each other, for the 
mere offense of dissent....sometimes not even that....

 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); "

you mean during the intafada........beginning to sense how one 
sided your analysis is yet?

 Palestinians are not allowed to own
> or lease land in Israel;"

funny, yet there are palestinians who are killed by other 
palestinians for the offense of selling their property in East 
Jerusalem to jews.....

  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;

how about all the funding supplied to the PA...why does most of it 
go "missing"?

 Israel assasinates peaceful
> Palestinian leaders, journalists and clerics without any
> accountability;

really? This is pure, unadulterated crap......


  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.


do us all a favor.....choke on your paella, would you?

love,
cfa
>         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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