It’s Israel’s Fault
By Charley Reese
July 19, 2006
I was about to write a column condemning Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza and the even more heinous failure of the European Union and the United States to condemn Israel’s war crime. Oh, yes, collective punishment against innocent civilians is a war crime, and it is an Israeli specialty.
However, Hezbollah struck across the Israeli border with Lebanon, kidnapped two more Israeli soldiers, and killed eight. Now Israel is inflicting collective punishment on Lebanon. You can be sure the U.S. and the EU will fail to condemn that, too.
One Israeli writer has already noted the obvious — that Israel’s over-the-top attacks on Gaza have nothing to do with trying to get one soldier freed from his kidnappers, who are apparently a small group of militants. Destroying bridges and a power plant, which means no clean water or sewage for 700,000 people, is just a dress rehearsal for Israel’s long-term plan to drive the Palestinians out of Palestine.
We’ve already become a target of terrorism, as I predicted we would, because of our complicity in Israel’s war crimes. Don’t you think it’s time for us to declare our independence from Israel and its powerful lobby? Don’t you think it’s time to get Israel’s hand out of the U.S. Treasury, from which it collects as a gift $3 billion every year? Don’t you think it’s time to stop protecting Israel in the United Nations, where we veto every resolution that condemns Israel’s bad behavior?(…Full Article)
