[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] Palestine - in words and pictures

Wed Apr 19 13:16:50 CDT 2006

FYI. --mkb

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> From: "Bruce R. Taub" <brt at brucetaub.net>
> Date: April 18, 2006 5:02:20 PM CDT
> To: (Recipient list suppressed)
> Subject: [Ufpj-disc] Palestine - in words and pictures
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> I was in Hebron, Palestine just 2 weeks ago.  The Jewish settlers  
> there basically just commandeered a section of the city, claimed it  
> as their own, kicked the Palestinians out, and put up a fence.  The  
> settler's attitudes and behaviors are self righteous, arrogant,  
> racist, entitled.  I saw where the settlers threw their garbage  
> into the Palestinian streets.  Human rights monitor's routinely  
> report settlers coming out to harass and even beat up Palestinian  
> teenaged boys.  It breaks my heart to report this as true, but I  
> cannot condemn racism in Germany or the Sudan, and then condone it  
> or turn a blind eye in Israel and the United States.  This is  
> madness ... and the US supports the Israeli settlers and  
> government's behaviors 100%.  It is morally wrong.  It is  
> politically wrong.  It is indefensible.  Not to mention just plain  
> shortsighted, stupid, and repugnant.
>
> If any country in the world treated its Jewish population the way  
> Israel treats its Palestinian population US aid to that country  
> would be cut off in a heartbeat.
>
> It is time to demand an economic boycott of and divestment from  
> Israel, but that is laughable goal while the US provides  
> $15,000,000 in military aid to Israel each day!  It is the entire  
> US policy toward Israel that must be changed, the entire U.S.  
> foreign policy toward Iraq and Iran that must be changed, the  
> entire demented U.S. foreign policy that must be changed.  That can  
> only happen with a change in the Congress of the United States and  
> the White House.  We can wait decades for a third party to possibly  
> take power in the US, or we can work to help the progressive wing  
> of the Democratic Party gain a significant enough majority to make  
> the changes those interested in Peace and Justice in Palestine and  
> Israel seek.
>
> I suggest http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/ has a reasoned  
> statement on where we want to go in Palestine and Israel.
> I suggest www.PDAmerica.org has the strategy that can help lead us  
> there.
>
> There will be no change in US policy without massive organizing  
> efforts and engagement.  The answer to our pained and puzzled  
> question, "How did the good Germans just stand passively by?" is to  
> be found everyday in our own behaviors, in the choices we make ...  
> and in the choices we don't make ...
>
> This is Hebron.  The children, teachers, and parents start this day  
> going to school to be faced with a checkpoint:
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> The soldiers prevent them from passing and give them orders to go  
> home.
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> The children try to challenge the soldiers and pass the checkpoint.
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>               A picture is worth 1000 words.
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> Even younger ones try ...
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> They Palestinians end up having their classes in the street by the  
> checkpoint.
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>                        At times it comes to this.  Palestinians  
> with rocks.  Israelis with submachine guns
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> Some get shot at, and some arrested
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> These are not people who will be defeated, though they may be  
> destroyed.  There is no such thing as a victory for one side over  
> the other in the Israeli Palestinian dispute.
>
> END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL UNTIL THE OCCUPATION ENDS, THE 1967  
> BORDERS ARE RESPECTED, AND PALESTINIAN AUTONOMY IS A FACT NOT JUST  
> A BROKEN PROMISE OR AN IGNORED U.N. RESOLUTION
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