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=== News Update ===
With Hand on Heart: Pelosi Admits Israel Comes First
by Joshua Frank
"The lessons we should learn from all
The fighting in the days of old
When providence bestowed divine
The sanctuary purified
Let lightning circle all you hold
And don't uproot the olive grove."
- Mirah, "Jerusalem"
I think it is finally time we stood up and thanked Rep. Nancy Pelosi,
the darling Democrat from the Bay Area who leads her party in the House.
Pelosi's recent speech to the Israel-American lobby AIPAC, the second
largest lobby in Washington, was monumental – truly unparalleled in its
candor.
Despite the fact that AIPAC was recently busted for spying on the United
States, Pelosi, along with many other top bureaucrats from Washington,
gushed effusions of praise on the foreign power. "There are those who
contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel's
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," Pelosi said as she rallied AIPAC
loyalists. "This is absolute nonsense. In truth, the history of the
conflict is not over occupation, and never has been: it is over the
fundamental right of Israel to exist."
Apparently Pelosi has never asked Palestinians what they think of
Israel's brutality. Not that she hasn't witnessed the occupation
firsthand; Pelosi is just not concerned in the least with the
Palestinian resistance.
"This spring, I was in Israel as part of a congressional trip that also
took us to Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq," said Pelosi. "One of the
most powerful experiences was taking a helicopter toward Gaza, over the
path of the security fence. We set down in a field that belonged to a
local kibbutz. It was a cool but sunny day, and the field was starting
to bloom with mustard. Mustard is a crop that grows in California, and
it felt at that moment as if I were home. And then we were told that the
reason we had to land in that field, as opposed to our actual
destination, was because there had been an infiltration that morning,
and they weren't sure how secure the area was. And that point alone
brought us back to the daily reality of Israel: even moments of peace
and beauty are haunted by the specter of violence."
Pelosi, like so many other Democrats and Republicans in D.C., does not
appreciate the asymmetry of the conflict. She cannot understand that
Palestinians are faced with violence every day as their livelihoods and
homes are uprooted to make way for new Israeli settlements. Never mind
that the farm collective where Pelosi landed in her fancy helicopter was
at one time operated by Palestinian farmers. For the land, according to
Pelosi, has always belonged to the state of Israel.
"One thing, however is unchanged," Pelosi added. "America's commitment
to the safety and security of the state of Israel is unwavering. America
and Israel share an unbreakable bond: in peace and war; and in
prosperity and in hardship."
Sadly, Palestinians don't figure into Pelosi's lopsided equation; those
darn Arabs just don't matter. And when Pelosi speaks of "safety and
security," it's only Israelis she's talking about. While Pelosi ignored
Israel's vast arsenal of chemical, biological, and nuclear weaponry,
along with the numerous UN resolutions the country has broken, she still
had the audacity to lash out at the latest troublemaker in the Middle
East: Iran.
"The greatest threat to Israel's right to exist, with the prospect of
devastating violence, now comes from Iran. For too long, leaders of both
political parties in the United States have not done nearly enough to
confront the Russians and the Chinese, who have supplied Iran as it has
plowed ahead with its nuclear and missile technology."
So, three cheers for Pelosi! Her honesty has been crudely insightful.
Especially given the fact that two AIPAC staffers have just been
indicted for espionage by the U.S. government.
source:
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jfrank.php?articleid=6157
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