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E-mailIt is a slow road, but things are beginning to change in America.
Look at this billboard:
No, this isn’t in London or any where in Europe or Canada. This is in the United States of America. This billboard is one of ten put up around the state of New Mexico to raise awareness about Israel’s recent assault on Gaza, which killed over 900 civilians including over 400 children; and to build support for ending the billions of dollars the United States sends in military aid to Israel.
In 2008, the Bush administration signed an agreement that secured $30 billion for Israel over a period of 10 years.
The group behind the advertisement is the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel. The two men who founded and lead the grass-roots organization are Lori Rudolph and Rich Forer; both are Jewish. Rich Forer was previously a member of the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
But, he states, that in the last couple of years he has been reading about the history of Israel. Not the founding myths of Zionism, but the real history. About how Israel was born out of ethnic cleansing, and death and destruction against the innocent Palestinians. Forer says that he has been shaken and awaken on the injustices that Israel has committed. It should be noted that the books he read were mostly by Israeli historians. It was Gaza that finally actuated activism on Forer’s behalf; an assault he has called a “monstrous act of inhumanity.”
After years of sleeping, Americans too are finally beginning to wake up and realize that the propaganda they have been feed about Israel is, alas, just that. And that propaganda is starting to wear thin.
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That’s a nice bit of Photoshop work, but not quite perfect… and I have a predisposition against any website that tries to “educate” me with selective facts, half-truths and complete fabrications.
Had the two superpowers of the time been interested in settling the Arab-Israeli conflict, a solution would have been imposed upon the sides by the US and the USSR back in the early 1950s. Instead, both of them used the conflict for the next 40 years as a proving ground for their weaponry—shedding Israeli and Arab blood to see who had the better slingshot.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the Arab world was left without a major supplier. Why should the Arab belligerents achieve with dishonest “diplomacy” what they couldn’t achieve on the battlefield? Had the Arabs won any of their attempts, there would be no Arab agreement to negotiating the rights of Jewish refugees.
As long as this topic has come up, why don’t all your wonderful, concerned organizations even acknowledge that there were 900,000 Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries at the same time? Are human rights reserved solely for Arab refugees?
There were wrongs committed by both sides and against both sides. Any comprehensive peace has to include solutions that both sides can live with, even if they don’t like them.
One-sided solutions favoring either side should not even be an option to any right-thinking person.
How would you like it, Marco, if someone were to demand that relief funds be denied to the Palestinians, since they divert them to making war?
By all means, stop the US aid to Israel—but stop the aid to Palestinians that Fatah and Hamas divert for making war against Israel and hiding away in secret bank accounts for their own personal benefit at the same time. Take your choice: both or neither — one-sided measures are an indication of someone with a personal agenda.
WHAT does Israel do in return?
The only reason Israel still exists is US backing.