[Peace-discuss] Letter to the editor submitted

[David Green]

As recent events in illegally Israeli-occupied Palestine increasethe likelihood of another full-scale armed confrontation (albeit with only oneside actually having weapons), we can look forward to predictable responses fromthe usual suspects.

First, the mainstream American media will dutifully comply withthe Jewish Israeli narrative that traces the current intensification to the mostrecent Palestinian who attacked or murdered Israelis, rather than the decades-longdepredations of illegal Jewish settlers who, on a regular basis and with the supportof the Israeli military and society, attack Palestinians (including children),confiscate Palestinian land, and burn the crops and olive trees of Palestinianswhose land they have yet to confiscate.

Thus, seven decades of Zionist aggression will be reduced tono more than seven days of Palestinian anti-Semitic perfidy, which some mightmistake for resistance.

Second, the President and Congress will unanimously reaffirmsupport for Israel, and propose contributing even more than $4 billion annualdonation to Israel (and the U.S. weapons industry), in case the occupying army shouldrun short of high-tech weapons and ammunition with which to murder defenselessPalestinian civilians.

Meanwhile, Congress will succeed in its current efforts tocriminalize the (non-violent) Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, withunanimous support from Illinois politicians at all levels, given that our own statelegislature has provided a model for such repression.

Finally, at the local level, Jewish institutions will callfor donations in Israel’s “time of need,” while Cary Nelson and Jim Dey blamecontinued violence on Steven Salaita’s “angry tweets.”

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