Is Fayyad Mad?
(Comment to Thomas Friedman's, 'Let's Fight Over a Big Plan'; NYT)
by Diane V. McLoughlin, Mar. 17, 2010
www.mcloughlinpost.com
For Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to even think of announcing the West Bank an independent state
while over 400,000 violently racist settlers live scattered throughout the depth and breadth of the West Bank on
stolen Palestinian lands, and while 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza continue to starve under Israel's three year
and counting military blockade, suggests he is either completely delusional or a stooge for the Israeli regime.
As A, B follows. There is no possibility of a two-state solution. Palestinians and Jews live together all mixed in
already if we look at a demographic map, but with a difference in rules based on race.
The two-state solution is a deliberately distracting illusion. What is real is that Israel is an Apartheid regime
where one preferred race holds all the power and all the votes and wants to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians
out of their homeland. The discarded race, the Palestinians, are denied the vote, are oppressed, and have their
human rights violated at every turn.
You cannot be a democratic state and be a state dedicated to one race. 20% of Israel's citizenry is Palestinian,
in addition to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. And yes, because this is so there are those in Israel
who espouse uprooting 20% of the populace and casting them out.
And American taxpayers are forced to give billions to Israel, that's billions with a 'b', each and every year in
support of it. We give Israel the bucks, bullets and the bombs that pay for settlements, kill Palestinians, even
burn them with white phosphorus bombs as we all witnessed on our television screens during Israel's betrayal of
the peace process when Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas. That's what the white streaky trails were falling
out of the sky. Chemical weapons. Only these weren't Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. Oh, no. Those
were our chemical weapons being fired on a defenseless civilian population.
There is only one way to bring peace to this region. It is up to the people of the world, just as with South Africa's
own Apartheid regime, to peacefully boycott, divest and sanction Israel ourselves until both the Jews and the
Palestinians have equal rights to live free.
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(Comment to Thomas Friedman's, 'Let's Fight Over a Big Plan'; NYT)
by Diane V. McLoughlin, Mar. 17, 2010
www.mcloughlinpost.com
For Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to even think of announcing the West Bank an independent state
while over 400,000 violently racist settlers live scattered throughout the depth and breadth of the West Bank on
stolen Palestinian lands, and while 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza continue to starve under Israel's three year
and counting military blockade, suggests he is either completely delusional or a stooge for the Israeli regime.
As A, B follows. There is no possibility of a two-state solution. Palestinians and Jews live together all mixed in
already if we look at a demographic map, but with a difference in rules based on race.
The two-state solution is a deliberately distracting illusion. What is real is that Israel is an Apartheid regime
where one preferred race holds all the power and all the votes and wants to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians
out of their homeland. The discarded race, the Palestinians, are denied the vote, are oppressed, and have their
human rights violated at every turn.
You cannot be a democratic state and be a state dedicated to one race. 20% of Israel's citizenry is Palestinian,
in addition to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. And yes, because this is so there are those in Israel
who espouse uprooting 20% of the populace and casting them out.
And American taxpayers are forced to give billions to Israel, that's billions with a 'b', each and every year in
support of it. We give Israel the bucks, bullets and the bombs that pay for settlements, kill Palestinians, even
burn them with white phosphorus bombs as we all witnessed on our television screens during Israel's betrayal of
the peace process when Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas. That's what the white streaky trails were falling
out of the sky. Chemical weapons. Only these weren't Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. Oh, no. Those
were our chemical weapons being fired on a defenseless civilian population.
There is only one way to bring peace to this region. It is up to the people of the world, just as with South Africa's
own Apartheid regime, to peacefully boycott, divest and sanction Israel ourselves until both the Jews and the
Palestinians have equal rights to live free.
Recommended by 59 Readers
You are welcome to leave a comment on the above article on my blog. Comments can be easily accessed by
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