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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">As recent events in illegally Israeli-occupied Palestine increase
the likelihood of another full-scale armed confrontation (albeit with only one
side actually having weapons), we can look forward to predictable responses from
the usual suspects.</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">First, the mainstream American media will dutifully comply with
the Jewish Israeli narrative that traces the current intensification to the most
recent Palestinian who attacked or murdered Israelis, rather than the decades-long
depredations of illegal Jewish settlers who, on a regular basis and with the support
of the Israeli military and society, attack Palestinians (including children),
confiscate Palestinian land, and burn the crops and olive trees of Palestinians
whose land they have yet to confiscate.</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Thus, seven decades of Zionist aggression will be reduced to
no more than seven days of Palestinian anti-Semitic perfidy, which some might
mistake for resistance.</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Second, the President and Congress will unanimously reaffirm
support for Israel, and propose contributing even more than $4 billion annual
donation to Israel (and the U.S. weapons industry), in case the occupying army should
run short of high-tech weapons and ammunition with which to murder defenseless
Palestinian civilians.</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Meanwhile, Congress will succeed in its current efforts to
criminalize the (non-violent) Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, with
unanimous support from Illinois politicians at all levels, given that our own state
legislature has provided a model for such repression.</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Finally, at the local level, Jewish institutions will call
for donations in Israel’s “time of need,” while Cary Nelson and Jim Dey blame
continued violence on Steven Salaita’s “angry tweets.”</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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