Ten Reasons to Love Palestinian
Arabs
by Diane V. McLoughlin; 12/02/08
I'm a news junkie. I would read every paper in the world
every day, if I could. Instead, I pop in to different on-line
publications as I can. Today I checked out one of the
biggest, The Sun, U.K. edition.
I discovered they have a huge discussion community, way
bigger than any I have come across so far. I was curious.
What do registered users at the Sun have to say? I was
shaken to find that what some had to say was racist.
The following is the essay I wrote on the spot responding
to the baited question, give me ten reasons to love
Palestinian Arabs.
1. They are our neighbor; they are suffering human
beings;
2. They are oppressed;
3. Israel is a democracy in the same way that Apartheid
South Africa was a democracy. Israel is for Jews.
Apartheid South Africa was for whites.
4. The Deep South in the U.S. had whites-only public
water taps. Israel has Jews-only roads. A Berlin Wall.
5. According to the U.N. office responsible, Israel allows
in 41%*
of the food in calories necessary to keep Gaza from
starvation.
6. When food is scarce what happens to the price of
food? The price, in a perverse twist designed to make
the Devil himself chortle with glee --- goes up.
For example, flour has doubled in price. Food purchases
of meat? Down 98%. Dairy? Which, I might remind the
reader is absolutely essential for the proper formation of
bones and teeth in children -
down 86%.
7. Israel bombed out a critical power plant in Gaza.
Israel allows in only half the fuel necessary to run Gaza's
wells, pumping stations and sewage treatment facilities.
8. Reason 7 constitutes biological warfare, as was used
by Britain and the U.S. against Iraq - to whit 500,000
children died from water-borne preventable disease.
9. Palestinians are a sensitive, intelligent and generous
people. Visit any Palestinian and no matter how modest
the circumstances, the kitchen is turned inside out
because they are happy to see you.
10. Last reason to love Palestinian Arabs is that they
continue to hold out the prospect of peace and
brotherhood with Israel. Too bad Israel continues the
path of ethnic cleansing, instead.
Those are my top-ten reasons to love Palestinian Arabs.
With little notice I could come up with a hundred reasons
why I love Palestinian Arabs.
And just so there is no confusion, I could come up with
plenty of reasons why I love Jews, too. I have no problem
with Jews.
Jewish notables have contributed invaluably to the
condition of mankind. Most, if not all, races and religions
somehow,
sometime, have. It's the Zionism-ethnic cleansing I have
a problem with.
It's the Zionist dumping of chamber pot contents on the
heads of Palestinians passing by. The attacking of the
innocent little Palestinian children trying to go to school; I
have a problem with that. Who's going to love them!, and
protect them when the Israeli
Offensive Forces batter down the door in the night to take
their father away? There's my question to you.
Am I finished? No, I don't think I'm finished. I find your
snide and sarcastic question offensive in the first
instance.
If this is representative of the state of respect in Great
Britain today then you've got big problems. Considering
your foreign policy in recent years, yearning for the good
ol' days of empire, living
vicariously in the shadow of the new bully on the block, it's
no wonder you fear what the Asian neighbor down the
street thinks of it all. Best be proactive on the domestic
front. Get them first.
*UNISPAL (United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs) Gaza Strip Humanitarian Fact
Sheet, November 27 (accessible at UNISPAL site.)
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