I think brother Jim forgot to include the /snark tag. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Carl Dassbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: >> >> from Juan Cole: >> >>> >>> The Israeli government appears to have rejected international calls for a >>> 48-hour truce to allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza. Lack of electricity, >>> fuel, medicine and even food is threatening to create an even deep crisis >>> there than during the Israeli blockade that has been in force off and on for >>> the past year. >>> >> >> >>> >>> In fact, an Israeli ship rammed a vessel attempting to deliver medical >>> supplies to Gaza, severely damaging it and endangering the passengers, who >>> included Karl Penhaul of CNN and former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The >>> boat, which was in international waters, could easily have sunk.< >>> >> >> Well, we Americans should support our beleaguered ally no matter what it >> does. >> > > Huh? Are you serious?? Israel is a terrorist state engaged in state > sponsored terrorism against the Palestinian people. It has seized their > land, herded them into concentration camps, undertaken a systematic program > of ethnocide and cultural destruction, and violated every peace agreement > as well as every UN sanction. It holds WMDs (nuclear, chemical and > biological) and would not hesitate to use them if it felt under a genuine > and serious threat. Why did the world condemn South Africa for apartheid > and no one has raised any objections to Israeli apartheid. The chief reason > the Arab world is angry at the US, and rightly so, is because of its > continued and unrelenting support of Israel. (The lunacy in Iraq and > Afghanistan did not help either). Unless, the situation in Israel is > resolved in a humane and humanitarian manner and the Palestinian people are > given a homeland, the Arab world will continue to hate and engage in a > covert war with the US. > > CHAD > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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