The Middle East Lies at the Bottom of Common Sense
When will American people finally act against the political friendships that allow for uncivilized forms of mistreatment done in their name and with their money, whether it is a US-of-A-made two-ton bomb or an American military ship sitting in the Mediterranean Sea in violation of God, first, and then the Arms Export Act?
Sadly, there are genuinely goodhearted people all across this country that react by immediately withdrawing from any suggestion that the United States should cut the purse strings to Tel Aviv, just like it does to Gaza. Even those, however, who do not refuse, in principle, predictably find reason to object to any concrete solution. “In general,” they say . . . Don’t you think the Jews need a place to live, remember how they were murdered in Germany; isn’t our support the appropriate action to take?
Whatever the situation, the sincerity or the intention, it is in every case one level short of the “appropriate” action at which one ought to deal with matters that pertain to ethics and fair play. Every people should have a homeland but special rights and considerations should not be given to just one class of people.
Why would we not have compassion for a people who were so demoralized and left brutally vulnerable among the Nazis? But to say that the Palestinians are too volatile and too intolerant is unfair, naïve and biased beyond all reason. When the world took their land, told them lies, and made empty promises to return them to their land, Palestinians were said to be impatient and anti-Semitic. When they rebelled against not having a decent meal to eat, a private toilet to use or a bed in which their children could sleep soundless, we labeled them as “terrorists” and then said they should be contained.
What we did not say is that they are given an entire childhood of rights to view the steel bars before they have been locked into the prison. Once they are locked-in—be it a jail, a grave or a belt made of dynamite—the world is boggled by their allegiance to resistance in groups like Hamas and Al-Jihad. I think we know that occupation is not the way to educate free citizens or liberate innocent children.
Is it really possible to go along with such dishonesty, with the realistic recognition of the distance of human rights and civil liberties that exists between the Israeli and the Palestinian people?
It’s not American diplomacy that allows for financing the Israeli government, it’s the need to have someone in a part of the world to further its economic quest. The political agents of this country do not love Israel; they need Israel! Every road leads strategically to a country where the ground is being pumped and the people are being oppressed, even by their own Arab leaders, who rape the rights of their people and pillage the oil pumps to enrich their own European accounts and construct ice castles in Dubai.
None of these “leaders”, nor any of their greedy lot, will tell their grandchildren when are old enough to hold their own golden spoon, that most of their food has been stolen from the tables of the poor.
The Secretary of State’s daughter should be compelled to know her father’s hands are dripping in the blood innocent civilians. The king’s son ought to understand the misery and treachery his life is built upon. The dictator’s children ought to know well, within its reality and without any uncertainty, the foreign investment and barbarism that their food, clothes and charge accounts are built upon. The honored children of these mindless master’s of deception and their excessive social order need to be distressed, astounded and traumatized by the consequences of the unjust privilege by which they exist, and let it be done way before they become vested in the same coldhearted conduct and concentration of power that was maintained by the monsters that sired them.
Success is never achieved by every pound of flesh you destroy or the vastness of unparalleled wealth. Success lies in goodness and those who can honestly lay claim to it. Sadly it is a stain on the evolution of civilization that the powerful men amongst it have preferred a perverted definition of this achievement and the burden of their actions have been brought to bear down on the backs of innocent people.
Khalilah Sabra, MAS-Freedom- North Carolina
