*Ø* Blogmanac | Time for Jewish Americans to say "enough!"
Leaders of many countries, including the United Kingdom, have roundly condemned the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Only Bush's administration, and to a certain extent, Australia's Howard government, have been weak on it.
Imagine the craziness it took within Sharon's government to come up with this bizarre plot. Here is Ahmed Yassin: old, quadriplegic, almost blind and deaf, and by far the most popular spiritual leader in the Muslim world. The Israeli geniuses decide to kill him with rockets as he leaves morning prayers at a mosque. In his wheelchair. The effect this is having in the entire Muslim world – not just in Palestine – is that which you could imagine if Osama bin Laden were to kill the Pope as he's wheeled from the Sistine Chapel.
No, not for a minute am I intending to posit a moral equivalence between Pope John Paul II and Sheik Yassin. That's not the point at all.
How many people must now die because of Israel's actions? How many Israelis, Americans, Palestinians, Australians and Japanese must die because idiots like Bush and Sharon – and Australia's John Howard – do all in their power to enrage people they seem not to have any understanding of at all? Truly, this is mind boggling. Is it any wonder that 100,000 angry people attended yesterday's funeral, or that many Muslims are calling for a bloodbath?
It seems to me that Sharon is about as mentally unbalanced as any Palestinian leader, and must be stopped. There is basically only one force that can halt this rampant lunatic, and that is financial pressure from the United States of America. The USA gives half of its foreign aid to Sharon's little rich country, and most of it is squandered by this out-of-control regime.
If it is only the USA that can stop Sharon committing further acts of barbarity, then who can force the USA to stop him? Maybe nobody, but if anyone can do it, it seems to me that it is American Jews. It's clear that large numbers of them oppose the current dinosaur policies of the Israeli government. It is they who must counterbalance, and overturn, the present agenda of the well-funded and powerful Zionist lobby in the USA. I believe that Jewish men and women of goodwill can do it, whereas the rest of us, especially those of us who live outside the USA and look on with feelings of powerlessness, do not have such opportunities.
It's time to speak up, as the Middle East's flashpoint situation is much worse now, with tens of thousands of US troops in that benighted part of the world.
How is the world reacting to the assassination? Our global media portal is a good way to find out. There's a permalink in the left-hand column on this page, but here's another.
Leaders of many countries, including the United Kingdom, have roundly condemned the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Only Bush's administration, and to a certain extent, Australia's Howard government, have been weak on it.
Imagine the craziness it took within Sharon's government to come up with this bizarre plot. Here is Ahmed Yassin: old, quadriplegic, almost blind and deaf, and by far the most popular spiritual leader in the Muslim world. The Israeli geniuses decide to kill him with rockets as he leaves morning prayers at a mosque. In his wheelchair. The effect this is having in the entire Muslim world – not just in Palestine – is that which you could imagine if Osama bin Laden were to kill the Pope as he's wheeled from the Sistine Chapel.
No, not for a minute am I intending to posit a moral equivalence between Pope John Paul II and Sheik Yassin. That's not the point at all.
How many people must now die because of Israel's actions? How many Israelis, Americans, Palestinians, Australians and Japanese must die because idiots like Bush and Sharon – and Australia's John Howard – do all in their power to enrage people they seem not to have any understanding of at all? Truly, this is mind boggling. Is it any wonder that 100,000 angry people attended yesterday's funeral, or that many Muslims are calling for a bloodbath?
It seems to me that Sharon is about as mentally unbalanced as any Palestinian leader, and must be stopped. There is basically only one force that can halt this rampant lunatic, and that is financial pressure from the United States of America. The USA gives half of its foreign aid to Sharon's little rich country, and most of it is squandered by this out-of-control regime.
If it is only the USA that can stop Sharon committing further acts of barbarity, then who can force the USA to stop him? Maybe nobody, but if anyone can do it, it seems to me that it is American Jews. It's clear that large numbers of them oppose the current dinosaur policies of the Israeli government. It is they who must counterbalance, and overturn, the present agenda of the well-funded and powerful Zionist lobby in the USA. I believe that Jewish men and women of goodwill can do it, whereas the rest of us, especially those of us who live outside the USA and look on with feelings of powerlessness, do not have such opportunities.
It's time to speak up, as the Middle East's flashpoint situation is much worse now, with tens of thousands of US troops in that benighted part of the world.
How is the world reacting to the assassination? Our global media portal is a good way to find out. There's a permalink in the left-hand column on this page, but here's another.
Pip Wilson posted item above at 3:49 PM | Permalink
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