RE: In Obama’s push for Mideast peace, whose side is he on? by Jackson Diehlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamas-push-for-mideast-peace-whose-side-is-he-on/2011/03/24/AFdkaikB_story.html
Dear Editor,
In glancing at the Mideast and peace- whose side is the Washington Post's Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl on? Certainly not America's... and certainly not on the side of full disclosure when it comes to his pet project Israel. Reading Diehl's columns it is impossible to see even a glimpse of the well known fact that Israel has been investing in institutionalized bigotry and injustice for decades- and harshly oppressing and punishing the Palestinians because they dare object.
One example out of many: Israel has been persistently expanding an "Israeli-only road network in the West Bank to ease travel for [Jewish] settlers, while continuing to restrict Palestinian movement with checkpoints, roadblocks, earthmounds, earth walls, road gates, road barriers and trenches" Israel bulldozes Fayyad's Freedom Road, again
How many more Palestinian homes will Israel demolish- how many more Palestinian men, women and children will be pushed into poverty- and forced exile- while pro-Israel pundits spin America away from understanding and believing in Palestine and a secular two state solution.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
"Just as a reminder, the Nakba is how Palestinians refer to the period in which Israel was created. While Israeli Jews celebrate the birth of their new homeland, the Palestinians mourn the loss of their loved ones, their homes, their land and their flight into exile. Tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 800,000 Palestinians fled the fighting and massacres perpetrated by Jewish gangs in the months leading up to May 15, 1948, never to return. Over 400 Palestinian villages were razed to the ground to make way for the newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Europe. Palestinians who left their homes, thinking it was a temporary alternative to being slain in their own beds, would end up in squalid refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries and in the West Bank and Gaza, never to return. Sixty-plus years later, refugees, their descendants and Palestinians still living in Israel whose original villages and homes were destroyed or usurped still commemorate that day by remembering the ongoing injustice that history has never rectified.
This seems reasonable within the freedoms provided by a “democratic state”. It also seems reasonable in light of Israel’s rampant attacks against anyone who questions the plight of Jews throughout history, namely those it likes to call “Holocaust deniers”. Surely, Israel would not want to be viewed in a light similar to those it so ardently criticizes?" Israel’s Bent Neck...by Joharah Baker for MIFTAH
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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