Opinion Editorials, October 2007
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Columbus Legacy, Israel Lobby, & Iran
By Mazen Qumsiyeh
ccun.org, October 15, 2007
(Two action alerts are posted at bottom. If any of the information provided makes a difference, then action is the logical step.)
Scott Ritter, US Marine and previously a US/UN arms inspector in Iraq, in his book "Target Iran" writes: "Let there be no doubt: If there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and nowhere else." More issues on the upcoming conflict with Iran are below nbut first a few other issues obfuscated by the gatekeepers of the main US media outlets.
Christopher Columbus Legacy of Genocide http://mit.edu/activities/thistle/v9/9.11/1columbus.html
(Today some people in the US celebrate Columbus day while many mourn. 83 activists were arrested in Denver for protesting the parade. This and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine is a reminder that these issues are still alive today.)
(Must read) Mohammed al-Dura lives on, By Gideon Levy
The concern Israel demonstrates for the fate of one Palestinian boy touches the heart: Again, note what a fuss is being made about the case of the killing of Mohammed al-Dura. Our heart is impervious to the fate of other children who have been killed. Just little Mohammed continues to haunt us. But the question of who killed al-Dura is not important. And maybe he is even alive, as some eccentrics claim. Perhaps he committed suicide, as the strange investigations are liable to suggest. All of these are tasteless questions designed to divert attention from the truly important issues: According to data collected by human rights group B'Tselem, Israel is responsible for killing more than 850 Palestinian children and teenagers since al-Dura was killed, including 92 in the past year alone.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909972.htmlExam failure: the price Gaza's children are paying for international blockade. It will be an uphill struggle, especially while the isolation imposed on Gaza by the international community and Israel continues. It's hard to over-estimate the impact on a generation of Gaza schoolchildren whom UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness says are being "bred in despair". He adds: "We risk radicalising people who show every sign of wanting only a measure of prosperity and dignity". http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3033358.ece
Inside France's secret war. For 40 years, the French government has been fighting a secret war in Africa, hidden not only from its people, but from the world. It has led the French to slaughter democrats, install dictator after dictator – and to fund and fuel the most vicious genocide since the Nazis. Today, this war is so violent that thousands are fleeing across the border from the Central African Republic into Darfur – seeking sanctuary in the world's most notorious killing fields http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article3030349.ece
More on the Lobby from a US Presidential Candidate:
MIKE GRAVEL: I love my country, and I love the human race. And I want to see a change made in the leadership of our country so we can do more to protect the human race....With respect to my country going to war when there's no reason to go to war, killing human beings, I'm ashamed of this. I'm ashamed of the leadership we have, whether it's Democratic leadership or Republican leadership. That's the reason why I'm in. Look what we're trying to do with Iran right now. Last week, the Lieberman resolution -- he's the guy that wrote the resolution with Iraq and killed over 3,000 Americans and a million Iraqis. And now he comes forward with another resolution, and the leadership of the Democratic Party in the Senate doesn't even have the brains or the judgment to recognize what he's doing. Sanctions on the Republican Guard? They already have sanctions. The U.N. passed them in March, Resolution 1747. What is the game they're playing right now to have sanctions? I mean, this was AIPAC that put Lieberman up to do this. This is disaster...
RAY SUAREZ (incredulous): You're saying that the national legislature of this country, rather than doing the will of the citizens of the United States, passed that Iran resolution, sanctioning the Republican Guard, because of the American-Israeli Political Action Committee?
MIKE GRAVEL: Wait a second. They'll be some information coming out about how this thing was drafted. So the answer is yes, the short answer.
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ACTION ALERT 1: Write letter to University of Michigan to ask them to continue and strengthen their relationship with Pluto Press (inspite of racist Zionist pressures). Here is a letter and details from Howard Zinn on this subject. http://www.codz.org/send-letter.html
ACTION ALERT 2: NY Sun style guide betrays their racist Zionist agenda (this is published by the new and refreshing NY Observer which we should all support/subscribe to). I go back to the notion that stores owned by Muslims and Arabs especially in the NY/NJ areas should be contacted to stop carrying the racist NY Sun. http://www.observer.com/2007/look-new-york-suns-style-guide
Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://qumsiyeh.org ______________________________________
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