Re: [Pen-l] U.S. ally in the news!

["Robert Naiman" <naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think brother Jim forgot to include the /snark tag.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Carl Dassbach <dassbach@xxxxxxx> 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
>
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