Cowards and Hypocrites

From: DaarkSyde

U.S. policy toward the most destabilizing factor in the Middle East
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to support Israel and to never
offend the Israeli lobby.

U.S. politicians use a number of rhetorical devices to disguise this
policy, since it guarantees not only a continuation of the conflict,
but a continuing supply of terrorists and an increasing hostility
toward American foreign policy in the region. They use rhetoric to
pretend to be interested in a solution.

For example, they do not call things by their correct names. East
Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza are not "disputed territories," nor
are they Judea and Samaria. They are occupied territories. They were
occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. There is a long-standing United
Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to return those
territories to the Palestinians.

The proper name for Jewish settlements in the occupied territory is
"illegal" settlements. The Geneva Accords, to which Israel is a
signatory, forbid the settlement of occupied territory, as well as the
expulsion of the native population.

The proper name for Israeli tactics, such as the demolition of homes,
the destruction of agricultural property, the confiscation of
property, the imposition of curfews, the assassination of political
opponents and the blocking of roads, is "collective punishment," which
in most parts of the world is a considered a war crime. No civilized
country punishes innocent people for the misdeeds of an individual. No
civilized country condones murder.

Another rhetorical device American politicians - without a doubt the
most cowardly in the world - hide behind is the proposition that the
"parties involved must reach a settlement." This is the equivalent of
a cop showing up at the door of a family whose 6-year-old daughter has
been raped and saying, "Your daughter and her rapist will have to work
this out between themselves."

There is such an enormous disparity in power - Israel has all of it,
and the Palestinians have none - that to put the burden on
Palestinians to negotiate with their oppressors is obscenely
unrealistic. It is exactly the same as if President Franklin Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had said to Poland, after it was
invaded and conquered by the Nazis, "You'll have to negotiate a
settlement with the Third Reich."

It is even more obscenely unrealistic to tell the Palestinians that
they are responsible for the security of Israel. The Palestinians, of
course, have no state, no army, no air force and no nothing, while
Israel is ranked by many as being among the top 10 of military powers
in the world.

It is Israel, under international law, as the occupier that has the
responsibility to provide security for the Palestinians. That, of
course, is a laugh. For 37 years Israel has ruled the Palestinians in
the occupied territories as a conquered people with essentially no
rights at all.

Finally, one of the things that most infuriates people in the Arab
world is the habit of American politicians taking note of every
Israeli death while ignoring the far more numerous deaths of
Palestinians. The death of any human being is a cause for grief, but
the American habit of ignoring Palestinian suffering leaves the
impression that Americans consider Jewish lives far more valuable than
Palestinian lives. And the truth is, many Americans do.

You will note that all of the Democratic candidates avoid talking
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or if they can't avoid it,
they make the ritualistic pledge of undying support for Israel.

This is no way for a great power to act. The effect of this enormous
act of political cowardice on the American people is that we will have
to live with the terrorism it has already spawned and will continue to
spawn for generations and generations to come. The price of American
political cowardice is the blood of innocent people.

"...They were occupied by Israel in the 1967 war...."

Those sites were taken in 1967 from Jordan not from the "Palestinians" UN
resolutions are worthless since over two thirds of ALL UN resolutions are
directed at Israel or the USA by the "hate America" and the "hate Israel"
cliques who write those worthless UN resolutions! The next international
conflict the UN ever resolves will be it's first!

WDA

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From: DaarkSyde

U.S. policy toward the most destabilizing factor in the Middle East
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to support Israel and to never
offend the Israeli lobby.

U.S. politicians use a number of rhetorical devices to disguise this
policy, since it guarantees not only a continuation of the conflict,
but a continuing supply of terrorists and an increasing hostility
toward American foreign policy in the region. They use rhetoric to
pretend to be interested in a solution.

For example, they do not call things by their correct names. East
Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza are not "disputed territories," nor
are they Judea and Samaria. They are occupied territories. They were
occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. There is a long-standing United
Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to return those
territories to the Palestinians.

The proper name for Jewish settlements in the occupied territory is
"illegal" settlements. The Geneva Accords, to which Israel is a
signatory, forbid the settlement of occupied territory, as well as the
expulsion of the native population.

The proper name for Israeli tactics, such as the demolition of homes,
the destruction of agricultural property, the confiscation of
property, the imposition of curfews, the assassination of political
opponents and the blocking of roads, is "collective punishment," which
in most parts of the world is a considered a war crime. No civilized
country punishes innocent people for the misdeeds of an individual. No
civilized country condones murder.

Another rhetorical device American politicians - without a doubt the
most cowardly in the world - hide behind is the proposition that the
"parties involved must reach a settlement." This is the equivalent of
a cop showing up at the door of a family whose 6-year-old daughter has
been raped and saying, "Your daughter and her rapist will have to work
this out between themselves."

There is such an enormous disparity in power - Israel has all of it,
and the Palestinians have none - that to put the burden on
Palestinians to negotiate with their oppressors is obscenely
unrealistic. It is exactly the same as if President Franklin Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had said to Poland, after it was
invaded and conquered by the Nazis, "You'll have to negotiate a
settlement with the Third Reich."

It is even more obscenely unrealistic to tell the Palestinians that
they are responsible for the security of Israel. The Palestinians, of
course, have no state, no army, no air force and no nothing, while
Israel is ranked by many as being among the top 10 of military powers
in the world.

It is Israel, under international law, as the occupier that has the
responsibility to provide security for the Palestinians. That, of
course, is a laugh. For 37 years Israel has ruled the Palestinians in
the occupied territories as a conquered people with essentially no
rights at all.

Finally, one of the things that most infuriates people in the Arab
world is the habit of American politicians taking note of every
Israeli death while ignoring the far more numerous deaths of
Palestinians. The death of any human being is a cause for grief, but
the American habit of ignoring Palestinian suffering leaves the
impression that Americans consider Jewish lives far more valuable than
Palestinian lives. And the truth is, many Americans do.

You will note that all of the Democratic candidates avoid talking
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or if they can't avoid it,
they make the ritualistic pledge of undying support for Israel.

This is no way for a great power to act. The effect of this enormous
act of political cowardice on the American people is that we will have
to live with the terrorism it has already spawned and will continue to
spawn for generations and generations to come. The price of American
political cowardice is the blood of innocent people.