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by Uri Avnery
The first Israeli victim of Saddam Hussein is a Zionist myth on which we were brought up.
It stated that Israel is a haven for all the Jews in the world. In all the other countries, Jews live in perpetual fear that a cruel persecutor will arise, as happened in Germany. Israel is the safe haven, to which Jews can escape in times of danger. Indeed, this was the purpose of the Founding Fathers when they established the state.
Now Saddam comes along and proves the opposite. All over the world, Jews live in safety, and only in one place on the planet are they threatened by annihilation: Israel. Here the national parks are prepared for mass-graves, here (pathetic) measures against biological and chemical weapons are prepared. Many people are already planning to escape to the communities in the Diaspora. End of a myth.
Another Zionist myth died even before that. The Diaspora, so we learned in our youth, creates anti-Semitism. Everywhere the Jews are a minority, and a minority inevitably attracts the hatred of the majority. Only when the Jews gather in the Land of their Forefathers and constitute the majority there, will anti-Semitism disappear throughout the world. Thus spoke Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.
Nowadays this myth, too, is giving up its blessed soul. The very opposite is happening: the State of Israel is causing the resurrection of anti-Semitism all over the world, threatening Jews everywhere.
The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for the growing of the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Anti-Semitic organizations, which for many years vegetated on the margins of society, rejected and despised, are suddenly growing and flowering. Anti-Semitism, which has hidden itself in shame since World War II, is now riding on a great wave of opposition to Sharon's policy of oppression.
Sharon's propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities with this mark. Many good people, who feel no hatred at all towards the Jews, but who detest the persecution of the Palestinians, are now called anti-Semites. Thus the sting is taken out of this word, giving it something approaching respectability.
The practical upshot: not only does Israel not protect the Jews from anti-Semitism, but quite on the contrary - Israel manufactures and exports the anti-Semitism that threatens Jews around the world.
For many years, Israel enjoyed the sympathy of most people. It was seen as the state of the holocaust survivors, a small and courageous country defending itself against the repeated assaults of murderous Arabs. Slowly, this image has been replaced by another: a cruel, brutal and colonizing state, oppressing a small and helpless people. The persecuted has become the persecutor, David has turned onto Goliath.
We Israelis, living in a bubble of self-brain-washing, find it hard to imagine how the world sees us. In many countries, television and newspapers publish daily pictures of Palestinian children throwing stones at monstrous tanks, soldiers harassing women at the checkpoints, despairing old men sitting on the ruins of their demolished homes, soldiers taking aim and shooting children. These soldiers do not look like human beings in uniform - "the neighbor's son" as they look to Israelis, but like robots without faces, armed to the teeth, heads hidden by helmets, bullet-proof vests changing their proportions. People who have seen these photos dozens and hundreds of times start to see the Israel in this image.
For Jews, this creates a dangerous vicious circle. Sharon's actions create repulsion and opposition throughout the world. These reinforce anti-Semitism. Faced with this danger, Jewish organizations are pushed into defending Israel and giving it unqualified support. This support enables the anti-Semites to attack not only the government of Israel, but the local Jews, too. And so on.
In Europe, Jews already feel the pressure. But in the United States, they still feel supremely self-confident. In Europe, Jews have learned over the centuries that it is not wise to be too conspicuous and to display their wealth and influence. But in America, the very opposite is happening: the Jewish establishment is practically straining to prove that it controls the country.
Every few years, the Jewish lobby "eliminates" an American politician who does not support the Israeli government unconditionally. This is not done secretly, behind the scenes, but as a public "execution". Just now this was done to the black Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a young, active, intelligent and very sympathetic woman. She has dared to criticize the Sharon government, support Palestinians and (worst of all) Israeli and Jewish peace groups. The Jewish establishment found a counter-candidate, a practically unknown black woman, injected huge sums into the campaign and defeated Cynthia.
All this happened in the open, with fanfares, to make a public example - so that every Senator and Congressperson would know that criticizing Sharon is tantamount to political suicide.
Now this is repeated in a big way. The pro-Israel lobby - which consists of Jews and extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists - is pushing the American administration to start a war. This, too, openly, in full view of the American public. Dozens of articles in the important newspapers point this out as a plain political fact.
What will happen if the war ends in failure? If it has unexpected negative results and many young Americans die? If the American public turns against it, as happened during the Vietnam War? One can easily imagine a whispering campaign starting: "The Jews have pushed us into this," "The Jews support Israel more than they support America," and, finally, "The Jews control our country."
Furthermore, Sharon may sooner or later bring about a revolution in the Arab world. This will be a disaster for American interests. American Jews, now completely identified with Israel, will be blamed.
Anyhow, the conspicuousness of the Jews in the United States, especially in the media, and their disproportionate influence over the Congress and the White House, can backfire one of these days.
Of course, the special political culture of the United States encourages such phenomena - but that was also true in Spain of the "Golden Age" and the Weimar republic in Germany. History does not have to repeat itself, but neither should one disregard its lessons.
There are people in Israel people who secretly wish for the victory of anti-Semitism everywhere. That would confirm another Zionist myth on which we were brought up: that Jews will not be able to live anywhere but in Israel, because anti-Semitism is bound to triumph everywhere. But the United States is not France or Argentina, it plays a critical role in the Middle East. Israel's national security, as established by all Israeli governments since Ben-Gurion, is based on the total support of the United States - military, political and economic.
If I were asked for advice, I would counsel the Jewish communities throughout the world as follows: break out of the vicious circle. Disarm the anti-Semites. Break the habit of automatic identification with everything our governments do. Let your conscience speak out. Return to the traditional Jewish values of "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow!" (Deuteronomy 16,20) and "Seek peace and pursue it!" (Psalms 34, 14). Identify yourselves with the Other Israel, which is struggling to uphold these values at home.
All over the world, new Jewish groups that follow this way are multiplying. They break yet another myth: the duty of Jews everywhere to subordinate themselves to the edicts of our government.
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As far as Cynthia McKinney, you convieniently failed to mention she made outragious public statements regarding 9/11 and begged to accept Arab money the Mayor of NY turned down, shooting her own self in the foot.
Anyone who reads this drivel and takes it seriously is someone to be pitied.
Antisemitism exists. period. Like ignorance, like greed, like stupidity it is there - always has been always will. Latuf is one example of it Amiri Baraka is another and Dennis and Amy are even unaware of what they are.
Jews just have to find ways to live with it. Being a jew is Karma, a destiny.
But if you are in need of rerasons for it Indy NYC has it:
http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31354&group=webcast
Not in NYC
Not in Tora Bora
Not in DC
Not in Nablus
Not in Tel-Aviv
Not in Bagdad
Not in Netanya
Not in Jerusalem
Only in Europe they try to buy peace, like they did in Munich in 1938
Obviously, Nessie is unaware of the rash of anti-semetic violence that has affected Argentina, Tunisia, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, and many many other countries. Nessie is unaware of the physical attacks on Jews in America, most notoriously in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Of course, if you only read IndyMedia for your news, you will hear none of this.
Israel exists because for four thousand years, Jews have been persecuted wherever they went. Jews enjoy periods of relative peace and prosperity in some coutries only to be interrupted by vicious anti-semitism. Excuses range from spreading the plague to being bankers, from cooking Christian children into Matza to simple xenophobia. Now we have the Palestinians to use as an excuse to hate and kill Jews.
After four thousand years, Jews have given the world enough of a chance to show that they can tolerate the Jews. After four thousand years, Jews quite simply have faced facts that they will never truly belong in any country but their own. Not in Saudi Arabia, not in Germany, not even in the USA..
Jews are attacked in Israel. So are Arabs and foreign workers. Americans are attacked in America. Kurds are attacked in Iraq. Kosavars are attacked in Kosovo.
Is the solution to run from your homeland to where you think you might be "safe?"
Four thousand years of persecution have tought the Jews that they can run, but they will never escape anti-Semitism.
Never Forget
Never Again
Palestinians are being oppressed, tortured, and killed and anyone who supports them is branded an anti-Semite.
Sort of like getting caught with your hand in someone's pocket trying to steal their wallet and then pointing at that person and screaming "thief, thief"...
Arab-Americans have not only been harassed in this country and others, but killed to. This is just as unacceptable as similar things that happen to Jews. It's just that, with movies, the news and the media in general giving out vicious racist depictions of Arabs, hatred of Arabs is probably far more common and acceptable than any other form of racism in this country.
"Never Again" ought to mean never again against ANY group--not JUST Jews.
The problem is that places like pacifica propagate a flase palestinian narrative used to justify killing of jews (and forign workers) in Israel.
Ask the palestinian why they continue the terror - this may help bring peace.
First, this is disingenuous as you could also ask why the Israelis continue their far greater terror.
I imagine the Palestinian groups that do it would say it's retaliation for specific acts of Israeli terrorism. It's never reported of course, but with every immoral terror bombing they commit, these groups give the specific reasons why they did it -- invariably some Israeli atrocity.
For the media to publish their explanations, would be too revealing; better suppress it and leave the impression it was unprovoked.
At the same time, the media bends over backwards to explain why Israel is carrying out this or that terrorist attack and always says it is retaliation.
My suggestion to help bring about peace is to allow UN Peacekeeping troops into the Territories as the Palestinians have requested as a buffer between the two peoples.
Why is this Palestinian request ignored? Also, why has Israel not come up with any constructive suggestions beyond pummeling the Palestinians further and maintaining their occupation which is used for stealing water and land -- the reasons they don't want UN troops there.
First came the terror spree of October 2000, and then Israel entered the Palestinian cities, look it up. The Palestinians lived under Yasser Arafat's rule until then - not an occupation at all.
You are distorting the facts. Israel was on it's way to make peace with the Palestinians and they begun a terror campaign. Israel has every right to retaliate and make their life a living hell until they realize that terror will get them nowhere..
"I imagine the Palestinian groups that do it would say it's retaliation for specific acts of Israeli terrorism. It's never reported of course, but with every immoral terror bombing they commit, these groups give the specific reasons why they did it -- invariably some Israeli atrocity."
You have proof? since you only "imagine", i think not, than you're a liar.
In fact - it's Israel that retaliates for Palestinian atrocities, and it's treating them with kid gloves, trying to minimize casulties among those murderers.
This is supporting terrorism, especially since it is a foreign army invading another people's land.
Actually, by international law, an occupied people have the RIGHT to resist their occupiers by any means necessary. So Palestinians do have a LEGAL right to bomb Israelis as long as Israelis are on their soil.
What is ridiculous is that the Lebanese or Palestinian resistance fighting Israelis on their own soil are considered "terrorist" while an invading Israeli army is "retaliating."
As far as pro-Israelis are concerned, Arabs don't have any right whatsoever to fight back and if they do, they're "terrorist", period, end of story. Likewise, the Israelis can do no wrong.
Just get the Hell out of the territories and your beloved Israel will be left alone.
Actually, first came the "targetted assassinations," when Israel used American Apache helicopters to shoot missiles into apartment buildings killing plenty of innocent people. Later, after much provocation, Palestinians retaliated.
-Robert Fisk
"If you put a cat in a corner and attack it, you should know how it will respond"
-Neta Golan (Israeli activist)
According to the Art of War, the first rule of warfare is to never corner your enemy. Once you do that, he has no choice but to come at you with all he's got. Ariel Sharon (who fancies himself a "warrior") has arrogantly ridden rough-shod over that rule.
> suggestions beyond pummeling the Palestinians
Because everything else has failed.
Offering the Palestinians control over 97% of the area failed.
Giving the PA civil control over the cities failed.
Giving the PA broad police powers in the disputed territories failed.
Every time Israel lifts a curfew or eases restrictions, another suicide bomb goes off.
Certainly it seems that what the Palestinians are fighting is the peace process itself. It seems as though the bombings are in retaliation not for Israeli "terror" but Israeli concessions.
Maybe the Palestinian terrorists want to be oppressed. Too bad they are causing the oppression of the rest of the people in the disputed territories in the process.
Anyone who'd like to understand the present impasse must get a look at a map of Israel's "generous offer": A bunch of non-contiguous bantustans, segmented off by Israeli-only roads and military check-points, and surrounded on all sides. Israeli Labor leader Schlomo approvingly referred to Israel's intentions for the Palestineans as "a neo-colonial dependency".
The fact of the matter is that Arafat would be happy to administer a neo-colonial dependency, but not one as humiliating as the one Israel offered. Indeed, if he had accepted he'd have gotten his sorry-ass overthrown or offed in no time.
There will be no peace for Israel until it dismantles every last settlement and ends the occupation.
Obituary for
the Oslo Accords
R.I.P. Sept.
13, 1993 - Sept. 28, 2000
by Francis A. Boyle
Oslo is dead. Generals Barak and Sharon deliberately killed off Oslo on 28 September 2000 when they knowingly instigated the Al Aqsa Intifada by desecrating the Haram-Al-Sharif. When Barak could not compel President Arafat into permanently accepting the Oslo Agreement as the "final solution" for the Palestinian People at the Camp David II negotiations in July, he and Sharon decided to revert to inflicting raw, naked, brutal force that would culminate in the planned reimposition of Israel's outright military occupation upon the West Bank. All of the subsequent violence between Israelis and Palestinians is directly attributable to this malicious decision undertaken jointly by Barak ("Labor") and Sharon ("Likhud") with the full acquiescence of the United States government (under both Clinton and Bush Jr.) every step of the way.
The Israeli/American destruction of Oslo
was only a matter of time. There was never any good faith on
the part of the Israeli government and the United States government
when it came to negotiating a just Middle East peace settlement
with the Palestinians going all the way
back to the preparatory work for the convocation of the 1991
Madrid Conference by the Bush Sr. administration. American bi-partisanship
at work directed against Palestine and the Palestinians.
When the Israeli government finally tendered a proposal for an interim peace agreement to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace negotiations in Washington D.C. in 1992, the Palestinian Delegation rejected it because it constituted nothing more than an apartheid Bantustan for the Palestinian People. Akin to the legal chicanery that the Afrikaners had unsuccessfully attempted to impose upon the Black People in the Republic of South Africa. Or the "Indian reservations" that the United States has so far successfully imposed upon its Indigenous Peoples. Not surprisingly, the United States government fully supported Israel in its attempt to impose this apartheid Bantustan upon Palestine and the Palestinians.
Nevertheless, the Palestinian Liberation Organization applied enormous political pressure upon the Palestinian Delegation and in particular its Head, Dr. Haider Abdul Shaffi, to accept the Israeli Bantustan proposal right then and there in Washington, D.C. This he adamantly refused to do. But it then became incumbent upon Dr. Abdul Shaffi to produce an anti-Bantustan model that would (1) protect and promote the Palestinian right to their own independent and viable nation state; (2) be negotiable in good faith with Israel; and (3) convince the PLO leadership in Tunis that these twin objectives could be accomplished. It was my great honor and pleasure that Dr. Abdul Shaffi and the Palestinian Delegation turned to me at this critical time in their Nation's history in order to devise this Palestinian alternative to the Israeli Bantustan proposal.
This I did by means of oral briefings and later a formal Memorandum of Law dated 1 December 1992 that was addressed to the Palestinian Delegates to the Middle East Peace Negotiations as well as to the top political leadership of the PLO then headquartered in Tunis. This lengthy Memorandum was translated into Arabic for review, consideration, and approval by the PLO Executive Committee, which serves as the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine, whose President was at the time and still is Yasser Arafat. My Palestinian anti-Bantustan model was approved by the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations as well as by the PLO leadership in Tunis. In other words, there was an officially approved Palestinian alternative to Oslo. So there did indeed exist a "choice."
Because of its historical significance, the Board of Editors of the distinguished Arab Studies Quarterly decided to publish this Memorandum in full in their Volume 22, No. 3, Summer 2000 Issue, together with a brief editorial Note. While going through this Memorandum, the reader should understand that the Israeli proposal severely criticized therein would later become the Oslo Agreement. In other words, this 1 December 1992 Memorandum provided the PLO leadership with a detailed roadmap of precisely what was wrong with Oslo, what would be the negative consequences of Oslo, and why Oslo would inevitably fail. Indeed, this 1 December 1992 Memorandum repeatedly predicted the failure of the Israeli proposal that would later become the Oslo Agreement, which was signed by President Arafat at the White House on 13 September 1993.
All of this analysis was well-known to President Arafat, Dr. Abdul Shaffi, the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations, and the PLO Executive Committee well before 13 September 1993. It was for this reason that Dr. Abdul Shaffi and several of the Palestinian Delegates refused as a matter of principle to attend the 13 September 1993 White House signing ceremony. They knew Oslo was a Bantustan and thus wanted nothing at all to do with it. Hence, contrary to some news media accounts and academic speculation, President Arafat knew exactly what he was signing on 13 September 1993. He had been fully informed and properly advised. But he signed on to the Oslo Bantustan anyway.
In our conversations before Oslo was signed and afterwards, the greatest fear and concern shared by Dr. Abdul-Shaffi and me was that Oslo would set off a Palestinian civil war. This would not have bothered the Israelis and the Americans one bit. But to his great credit, so far President Arafat has refused to ignite a Palestinian civil war in the name of enforcing the Oslo Bantustan.
Precisely because President Arafat would not do their dirty work for them, the Israelis and the Americans then turned upon him. Both the Israelis and the Americans have decided to jettison President Arafat in preference to installing some Palestinian quisling willing to become the "chief" of a Palestinian Bantustan where he would employ its "reservation police force" in order to suppress the Al Aqsa Intifada. I doubt very seriously that the Israelis and the Americans will succeed at imposing their nefarious objectives upon Palestine and the Palestinians without violent resistance. What the ultimate consequences might be I cannot predict at this time. But the longer the United States government enables Israel to torment Palestine and the Palestinians, the progressively less likely a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement becomes.
In this regard, having served as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993, and in a similar capacity to the Syrian Delegation to the Middle East Negotiations during their First Round held in Washington, D.C. during 1991, I can state unequivocally that if there had been good faith on the part of the governments of Israel and the United States back in 1991, there could have been negotiated a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement between Israel, on the one hand, and Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, respectively, on the other, no later than by the end of 1993. The conclusion is inexorable that the governments of Israel and the United States were never seriously interested in obtaining a comprehensive and just Middle East peace settlement in the first place. Rather, Israel's perpetration and prolongation of its "low intensity conflict" against Palestine and the Palestinians as well as against Lebanon, the Lebanese, and Palestinian refugees involuntarily living in Lebanon suit the interests of the interpenetrated security-military-industrial-complexes that really control the governments of the United States and Israel.
Of course, from the Palestinian perspective, there is nothing "low intensity" about their just struggle for national survival against the Israeli-American juggernaut. And there are signs that Sharon would like to unleash a major new war against Lebanon and Syria just as he did in 1982 when as Israel's "Minister of Defense" - truly Orwellian! - he got the proverbial "green light" from the Reagan administration to do so. Right now the "governments" of the United States and Israel are plotting to launch catastrophic aggression against Iraq, giving Sharon cover to initiate yet another round of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians by driving their West Bank inhabitants into Jordan. This incredibly volatile situation could readily degenerate into another regional war for the entire Middle East along the lines of 1948/1967/1973.
Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is author of Foundations of World Order, Duke University Press, and The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Clarity Press. He can be reached at: FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU
http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle0703.html
Around the turn of the last century (~1900), Palestinians owned 100% of Palestine.
In 1948, Israelis took by force 78% of Palestine evicting the indigenous population through terror tactics described in the attack on Deir Yassin but many other villages as well that were not documented at all. The leaders (Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir) of the groups (Lehi and Irgun Gangs) that conducted these slaughters were elected to Israel's highest office -- they became Prime Ministers of Israel.
THIS IS HOW RIDICULOUS THE ENTIRE AFFAIR HAS BECOME:
The remaining 22% of Palestinian lands and water is coveted by the Israelis.
Barak to the Palestinians: We'll give you 80% of 22% of 100% of what was originally yours.
Sharon to the Palestinians: We'll give you 40% of 80% of the 22% of the 100% of what was originally yours.
US Congressmen (like Dick Armey) to Sharon: Give them 0% of 40% of 80% of 22% of 100% of what was originally theirs.
And we Americans pay for it all...
1. Stop all aid to Israel (i.e. stop paying for the Occupation) and stop blocking UN resolutions meant to bring justice to the Palestinians.
OR
2. Allow all the Palestinians (including the refugees) to resettle in the US (leaving all the land to the Israelis). Though this still presents a problems as Israel also covets Syrian and especially Lebanese land and water.
OR
3. Allow all the Israelis to resettle in the US (leaving all the land to the original indigenous Palestinian population).
Why does it matter how many Jews have been killed elsewhere than Israel? Your contention that Jews are safe everywhere in the world except Israel is pathetic.
September 17, 2002
by Joe Sobran
"Get over it," a correspondent wrote me after I'd
mentioned Deir Yassin to him. But the Middle East has
never gotten over this formative event in the history of
the region. It remains the most lastingly successful
terrorist operation in the creation of the state of
Israel. It played a large part in Plan Dalet, a Zionist
campaign to drive Arabs out of Palestine.
"Deir Yassin was a small Arab village just outside
Jerusalem," write George and Douglas Ball in their book
THE PASSIONATE ATTACHMENT. "It had stayed out of the
[Jewish-Arab] struggle and, wishing to be neutral, its
inhabitants had entered into a mutual nonaggression pact
with the neighboring Jews. They had also agreed not to
harbor those attacking the Jews.
"Yet the village was almost the first to suffer the
horror of Plan Dalet, which went into effect on April 1,
1948. It called for the destruction and evacuation of
twenty villages in order to purge the land of Palestinian
inhabitants by gaining 'control of areas given to us by
the UN in addition to areas occupied by us which were
outside these borders.'"
On April 9 the irregular forces of the Irgun, led by
Israel's future prime minister Menachem Begin,
slaughtered nearly all the residents of the nearly
defenseless village. Many survivors of the first assault,
all civilians, were marched into the village square,
lined up against a wall, and shot. A Red Cross
representative arrived while the violence was still in
progress; he found 254 dead, including 145 women, 35 of
whom were pregnant.
A few of the Arabs of Deir Yassin were still alive.
The Balls write, "The other surviving woman and children
were stripped, and with their hands above their heads,
paraded in three open trucks up and down King George V
Avenue in Jewish Jerusalem, where spectators spat on them
and stoned them."
This had the desired effect. As word of the massacre
spread, hundreds of Arabs fled the land. They have never
been allowed to return to their homes. Their houses were
destroyed and their property distributed to Jews.
Begin was exultant. He sent a message praising his
troops:
"Accept my congratulations on this splendid act of
conquest. Convey my regards to all the commanders and
soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the
excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this
great attack. We stand to attention in memory of the
slain. We lovingly shake the hands of the wounded. Tell
the soldiers: you have made history with your attack and
your victory. Continue thus until victory. As in Deir
Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the
enemy. God, God, Thou hast chosen us for conquest."
In his memoirs, Begin made the event sound like a
battle, with no mention of the massacre of women and
children or of the obscene abuse of the few survivors.
But in fact it was a triumph for Plan Dalet -- not a
heroic defensive feat, but an act of brutal expropriation
and a precedent for many others. Even Begin called it a
"conquest."
Nobody was fooled. One of Israel's founders, David
Ben Gurion, had to repudiate Begin and the Irgun, but
they were only executing his plan and Ben Gurion himself
had never intended to honor the UN boundaries. He
accepted them only as a base for future conquest and
expansion.
Not only did Begin go on to become Israel's prime
minister; he was vocal in denouncing Arabs for
"terrorism," even as he refused to admit that the Arabs
had any rights. Among his servitors was his defense
minister, Ariel Sharon, who applied Begin's methods
during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, slaughtering
thousands of civilians. (A subsequent inquiry forced
Sharon to resign from the cabinet. Not all Israelis are
devoid of conscience.)
Such are America's "reliable allies" in the "war on
terrorism." To most Americans, the events of 1948 and
1982 are ancient history; in fact, to most Americans,
history itself (including American history) is ancient
history. The very events that shaped today's world and
set the stage for today's turmoil are deemed too remote
to matter. Why won't those Arabs just shut up?
It's history, as we say. Get over it.
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