[Peace-discuss] action idea re: "What if Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?"

[C. G. Estabrook]

Excellent idea. Part of our Monthly Message campaign, perhaps.  And a flyer for 
the February 7 Main Event.


Robert Naiman wrote:
> How much do you suppose it would cost to put the ADC ad in the DI or the
> News-Gazette...? Could we swing it...?
> 
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> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/27-5
> 
> Published on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by CommonDreams.org What if Israel
> Were in Your Neighborhood?
> 
> by Russell Mokhiber
> 
> I left Washington last week when many friends and family members were coming
> here to celebrate the inauguration of our first African-American President.
> 
> My eleven year-old son asked me -- why turn your back on Obama?
> 
> I threw back at him Martin Luther King -- It's not the color of his skin,
> it's the content of his character.
> 
> What does it say about Obama's character that he sides with the Israeli
> slaughter machine against those that it slaughters?
> 
> What does it say about the character of his "progressive" supporters, who cry
> for joy at his inauguration, but say not a peep about the slaughter machine
> and its victims?
> 
> (See, for example, former AIPAC staffer and "progressive Democratic" 
> columnist David Sirota, who broke down and cried watching Obama's 
> inauguration, but has not written one word about the slaughter in Gaza.)
> 
> Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) took out full page ads
> in major newspapers around the country.
> 
> The ad was titled: What if Hamas Was in Your Neighborhood? (link to ad at:
> http://www.adl.org/Israel/posters/HamasAd_Phoenix.pdf [1])
> 
> The ad showed missiles reigning down on Phoenix, or Boston, or Washington,
> D.C.
> 
> "Imagine if Hamas terrorists were targeting you and your family," the ad
> read. "No country would allow such danger on its border, and neither will
> Israel. That's why Israel is fighting back."
> 
> In response, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) last week
> put up an ad on its web site titled -- What If Israel Were in Your
> Neighborhood? (Link to ad at: http://www.adc.org/PDF/gazaposter.pdf [2])
> 
> Answer?
> 
> Death and Destruction with American built F-16 fighter jets and Apache 
> helicopters.
> 
> Yes, when Hamas launches rockets that kill innocent civilians, it engages in
> war crimes.
> 
> But Hamas has no Army, no Navy, no Air Force.
> 
> The slaughter machine has a modern military with hundreds of nuclear weapons
> and U.S. supplied F-16s and Apache helicopters.
> 
> So, there is a balance of terror.
> 
> And the Palestinian bodies tip the scales in the slaughter machine's favor.
> 
> Since the first rocket was launched into Israel in 2002 up until the December
> 17, 2008 invasion of Gaza, the Israel body count was maybe two dozen.
> 
> The Palestinian body count was 2,700.
> 
> That would be about 100 to one.
> 
> Since the invasion, the Israeli body count is 14.
> 
> The Palestinian body count was more than 1,400.
> 
> That would be about 100 to one.
> 
> As the ADC ad puts it: "Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be 
> justified by self-defense. An armed attack that is not justified by 
> self-defense is a war of aggression. Under the Nuremberg Principles affirmed
> by U.N. Resolution 95, aggression is a crime against peace. Prosecute Israel
> for War Crimes."
> 
> So, here's one concrete thing you can do to counter the slaughter machine's
> propaganda.
> 
> If you are interested in placing the "What If Israel Were in Your 
> Neighborhood?" ad in your local newspaper, contact ADC's Nabil Mohammad at
> organizing at adc.org [3].
> 
> Turn the tide of terror. Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington,
> D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter [4].
>