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Here today, and for the viewing pleasure of the audience, the military
of Israel in an armed assault on the Palestinian people!
The United States has declared that any nation or peoples that attack
unarmed women and children, and not the military of a country, are
terrorists. And that terrorist countries are those that have Weapons
of Mass Destruction. The government of the U.S. has declared that
we will fight against terrorists wherever we find them. My question
then has to be: “When does the military of the United States
attack Israel?”
In 1947, the United Nations gave the lands of Palestine to the Jewish
people so that they could establish a country for the Jewish people
of the world to call their own. This act of politics gave a people
a place to start over, to begin anew without the threat of extermination
from those who would hate and despise them because of who they were.
But . . . (and there’s always a “but.”), what gives
the U.N. the right to give someone else’s land away?
I don’t know about you, but I tend to think that countries
that have not been on ANY maps for hundreds of years are no longer
countries. After all, how many of us have vacationed to Galatia? How
many people even know where Galatia was? NOT a country! And yet, for
some reason the U.N. felt justified in giving land to people who had
not lived there in hundreds of years.
How would you like to be watching TV one afternoon, only to find
out that the place you lived in was now under the control of people
who would take the best land for themselves and move you and your
family to some unworkable region of the country? And if they took
away almost every right you’d ever known? How would you feel
if you had to petition for a pass to travel from were you live to
visit a relative who just happened to live in a different “occupied
territory”? This is life in the occupied territories. This is
the life of a Palestinian in “Israel.”
The nation of Israel has, for over 50 years now, been terrorizing
the people of the middle-east by continuing to take land for themselves
from those who live next to them. Since 1947, the Jewish settlers
in the region have forcibly removed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
from lands they have lived on and worked on for hundreds, if not thousands,
of years. The latest attack of note, until recently, being the “Preemptive
Defense” invasion of the Gaza Strip and Sanai Peninsula in 1972,
when the Egyptians were attacked by this “Organization.”
In June of this year there was a car bomb which exploded in a housing
block of Tel Aviv. The blast killed a young Jewish boy and injured
several others. I will not argue whether this attack should or should
not be called a terrorist attack; because, it most assuredly was an
attack meant to kill or harm the civilian population of Israel. What
I want to stress here is that Israel’s response was just as
much of a terrorist assault. The military of Israel did not move to
find the people responsible for the attack and attack them or arrest
them. NO! Instead, the nation responded with a car bomb placed inside
a Palestinian neighborhood. This blast killed five children and injured
many others. A terrorist attack if I’ve ever seen one.
How long will the United States continue to sponsor this terrorist
“organization,” due to its recognized status as a country,
while simultaneously condemning the activities of another terrorist
“organization,” due to its status as a country-less people?
Are we to expect that the Kurds in northern Iraq will be allowed to
kill the Iraqi people in that part of that country because of their
oppression for all of those years?
Do you think of yourself as a citizen of the United States? If you
do, think about this: our country was formed by the occasional use
of terror. Tea being such a vital commodity in the 1700s, how many
people were harmed, economically, by the Boston Tea Party alone? How
many of the supporters of the king were killed or had their houses
and property burned to make way for the New Order? How many of the
Native American’s in the 1700s to early 1900s were part of a
recognized country? How many people were put to death after the French
Revolution? The United States had something to do with that event.
A group of people can never become a country or find freedom for themselves
without fighting against those people who are oppressing them.
If you wish to think me an ass, fine but do so for reasons other
than this. War has always involved terror. Sun Tzu said, “to
weaken your enemy, attack away from his forces. Burning a village
will pull some of your enemy’s forces to the area, weakening
his main body at the field of battle.” This is terrorism, an
attack on unarmed people by those who have the means. The crusaders
killed everyone in the city of Acre when they finally broke the siege.
Why? To tell the rest of the Sultan’s people that if they resisted,
they, too, would be killed just as ruthlessly. Just because today’s
terrorists are not part of a recognized country, they are not considered
to be at war. But, how often in the pre-industrial world did a group
of people declare war on a king (or caliph) without being recognized
as a government? The idea of “Rules of War” is a wholly
modern idea, and then only a late 20th Century one at that.
I’d like to say that as long as the United States continues
to support ANY organization of terror in the world, the people of
the United States can expect the people of the world to distrust or
even hate them. As long as the United States continues to allow any
displaced peoples to be burdened with discrimination and human rights
violations, it is in the wrong. Our policy toward the region should
be that neither side is to be backed by military or economic aid.
The Israelis should be forced to find a resolution to their own problems
just as so many other countries have done for at least 2,500 years
now.
No more supporting ANY terrorists just because they are friends of
the country. No more ignoring the evils of ANY country just because
it is religiously important to some of the population. The United
States is the most powerful country in the world; we should show that
with power comes the knowledge of how to be understanding and compassionate.
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