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America’s Shame
By Paul Craig Roberts
January 08, 2009 "Information
Clearinghouse" -- Why
does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine doesn’t?
This is the question of our time.
For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There
are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the
shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today--a
small number of unconnected ghettos or bantustans.
Palestine became “the occupied territory” from which Palestinians were ejected
and Israeli settlements built for “settlers.” Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are full
of refugee camps in which Palestinians driven off their lands by Israeli force
have been living for decades.
Driving people off their land is strictly illegal under international law, but
Israel has been getting away with it for decades.
Gaza is a concentration camp of 1.5 million Palestinians who were driven from
their homes and villages and collected in the Gaza Ghetto.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was created 60 years ago in
1949 to administer refugee camps for Palestinians driven from their lands by
Israel. As of 2002, the registered Palestinian refugee population was 3.9
million.
Caterpillar Tractor makes a special bulldozer for Israel that is designed to
knock down Palestinian homes and to uproot their orchards. In 2003 an American
protester, Rachel Corrie, stood in front of one of these Caterpillars and was
run over and crushed.
Nothing happened. The Israelis can kill whomever they want whenever they want.
They have been doing so for 60 years, and they show no sign of stopping.
Currently they are murdering women and children in the ghetto that they have
created for Palestinians in Gaza. The entire world knows this. The Red Cross
protests it. But the Israelis brazenly claim that they are killing “Hamas
terrorists who are a threat to Israel’s existence.”
The American media knows that this is a lie, but does not say so.
Israel has been able to slowly exterminate a people for sixty years without
provoking sufficient outrage to stop it.
The United States, “Christian America,” has been Israel’s greatest enabler in
its long-term murder of the Palestinian people. Millions of “evangelical
Christians” endorse Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
The rest of the world condemns the Israeli military attack on the Gaza Ghetto.
Last week the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution requiring a
ceasefire and the withdrawal of the Israeli SS from Gaza.
The United States abstained.
While the rest of the world condemns Israel’s inhumanity, the US Congress--I
should say the US Knesset--rushed to endorse the Israeli slaughter of the
Palestinians in Gaza.
The US Senate endorsed Israel’s massacre of Palestinians with a vote of 100-0.
The US House of Representatives voted 430-5 to endorse Israel’s massacre of
Palestinians.
The resolutions endorsed by 100% of the US Senate and 99% of the House were
written by AIPAC, as were the speeches praising Israel for its inhumanity.
The US Congress was proud to show that it is Israel’s puppet even when it comes
to murdering women and children.
The President of the United States was proud to block effective action by the UN
Security Council by ordering the Secretary of State to abstain.
Be a Proud American. Swagger and strut. Pretend that you are not besmirched by
the shame that your government has heaped upon you. Take refuge in your
ignorance, fostered by 60 years of Israeli lies, that the murder of Palestinians
and the theft of their lands is “Israel’s right of self-defense.”
From:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21712.htm
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