Avnery Says Obama Is Now Hip on East Jerusalem

Uri Avnery comments on the bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem:

From
the utterances of the commentators this week, one can gather that they
cannot even imagine the anger that accumulates in the mind of a young
Arab in Jerusalem throughout the years of humiliation, harassment,
discrimination and helplessness. It is easier and more amusing to go
into pornographic descriptions of the 72 virgins waiting for the
martyrs in the Muslim paradise – what they do with them, how they do it
to them, who has enough energy for them all.

One
of the main contributing factors for the stirring up of hatred is the
demolition of “illegal” homes of Arab residents, who are quite unable
to build “legally”….

[There is] one, clear
solution: to turn East Jerusalem into the capital of the State of
Palestine, to enable its inhabitants to set up their own municipality,
while keeping the whole city as an urban entity united under one
super-municipality in which the Arabs will be equal to the Jews.  I am
glad that during his visit with us this week, Barack Obama repeated
almost word for word this plan, which Gush Shalom published some ten
years ago in cooperation with Feisal Husseini, the late leader of the
Jerusalem Arab community…

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  1. Paul Malfara says:

    As If He Were Human
    A Poem for Uri Avnery

    You'd be classed anti-semite
    if you weren't a Jew
    You'd be defamed a self-hater
    if you hadn't had lead
    bullets in your body, fighting
    to build your dream, Zion

    A day awoke, yawned and you saw
    The dream had morphed, mutant
    People once again imperiled
    Yet these were not your own
    And you shrugged off the ethnic yoke
    neatly with a scalpel

    "All people are my own" you screamed
    "A debt owed to all victims
    And that within my power to change
    is a duty I embrace"
    They wondered where he'd gone, they said
    "Perhaps too far past the bend"

    SOGs and Wittys, soggy, witless
    know not what to make of
    you who have transcended all that
    drives thier lame excuses
    You who fought, and bled and now you
    dare to love the other

    As if he were human
    As if they were really humans

    PM

  2. Richard Witty says:

    Paul,
    You don't have a clue as to my historical political efforts and evolution of consciousness.

  3. charles Keating says:

    Witty, you've left clues all over the place. Your bottom line is that
    Jews need to survive as the (mostly) blood family they are. It's understandable, but nothing more. Gentiles are merely a means to that end.

  4. sword of gideon says:

    Explain your wife then. She married you. An out and aut Jew baiting aniti-semite, clearly none of this was important to her.

  5. charles Keating says:

    There's an exception to every rule. Take you for instance, SOG, you were born in the USA, have taken full advantage of it, yet your first priority is maintaining the Hebrew blood line, just as if
    the USA Declaration Of Independence and Constitution, as Amended by the Bill Of Rights, means nothing at all.

  6. charles Keating says:

    Hence, you are not like the average American.

  7. Paul Malfara says:

    Richard,

    Unfortunately, it is you who don't have a clue to your own warped consciousness. You have left more than a few clues here on this comments board.

    PM

  8. sword of gideon says:

    Good thing your wifes "Hebrew blood line" ( whatever that means ) dies when she dies. Like I said, addition, by subtraction.

  9. Richard Witty says:

    You still don't have a clue.

  10. charles Keating says:

    A zionist is a racist. Get a clue.

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