[Peace-discuss] Fwd: The News-Gazette: Letter to the Editor Submission

[C. G. Estabrook]

> From: "News-Gazette.com" <noreply at news-gazette.com>
> Subject: The News-Gazette: Letter to the Editor Submission
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> The News-Gazette editorial page continues its misrepresentation of a major violation of academic freedom at UIUC (“UI seeks another Salaita settlement,” March 13, 2016) and compounds it with a lying account of a major international crime, Israel’s 2014 attack on Gaza.
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> The American Association of University Professors rightly censured UI for denying Steven Salaita’s appointment for his comments on Israel’s 2014 massacre, but the News-Gazette says that Israel “took action in the Gaza strip to cut off a terrorist threat”!
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> The parallel that comes to mind is the German government’s announcement on September 1, 1939, that “We are finally shooting back!” in Poland...
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> Israel’s attack on on Gaza was “a hideous atrocity, sadistic, vicious, murderous, totally without any credible pretext. It’s another one of the periodic Israeli exercises in what they delicately call ‘mowing the lawn.’ That means shooting fish in the pond, to make sure that the animals stay quiet in the cage that you’ve constructed for them, after which you go to a period of what’s called ‘ceasefire,’ which means that Hamas observes the ceasefire, as Israel concedes, while Israel continues to violate it. Then it’s broken by an Israeli escalation, Hamas reaction...” [Noam Chomsky].
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> The UI is obviously willing to violate its own principles at the behest of the Israel lobby and wealthy donors. But the News-Gazette should not be allowed shamefully to misrepresent international criminality, even if those crimes are backed by the Obama administration.
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> —C. G. Estabrook
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