Cynthia McKinney, the former Georgia congresswoman who tried to get into Gaza a couple weeks ago, was at ANSWER's march and rally in Washington yesterday. "Among
the many friends in attendance, I met a young man and his daughter who
had come all the way from Greensboro, North Carolina to participate.
The crowd was one of the most diverse that I have ever seen. I think
our message is reaching deep into our country's heartland," she said.
McKinney's speech at that rally used the words "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide." Thanks to Anne Silver for these excerpts:
We don't see the images. They are neatly censored from our view in this country. But everywhere else around the world the carnage that is Gaza is being seen and the people are revolted by what they see....
They see what is reportedly the world's fourth most powerful military using all of its power against a defenseless people.
In fact, they are witnesses to 15 days of war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide....
And despite the obvious facts of an Israeli-sponsored terror campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, a piece of territory roughly twice the size of the District of Columbia, they see the U.S. Congress support a resolution totally supporting Israel, even though Israel is in violation of U.S. and international law.
They see Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid... cowers before the pro-Israel lobby, and they wonder why.
And sadly, they see the U.S. President-elect, who roared onto the scene like a lion, remain as quiet as a lamb in the face of the utter inhumanity of Israel's actions, and they wonder why...
A new day is coming in U.S. politics. We will use the power of our vote to change U.S. policy. We will no longer check our values at the door and support politicians and political parties that fail to deliver.
McKinney's description of every Congressperson or Senator that regards Hamas as irreconcilable as "cowing to the Israel Lobby", ignores that the majority of Congressional opinion is based on rationality, as is Obama's stated commitments.
See his interview with Stephanopolus today. He reaffirmed his commitment to regard the shelling of Israeli civilians as an illegal and irresponsible act.
To compound that, to declare that any Jewish institution is fair game for terror ("ANY action"), is off the scale, and will nearly permanently disqualify them from direct negotiation as peer with Israeli, US, Europe, even most of the Arab world.
They don't realize how horrible their judgement was in the last three weeks, and how permanently catastrophic those poor judgements will be for Palestinians so long as they are in any political leadership role.
Unfortunately African Americans like Jeremiah Wright and Cynthia McKinney trust Arabs too much. They support Palestinians but Palestinians will never support Africans in Egyptians and Libyans are committing a genocide and enslavement of Sudanese and Mauritanian Africans and Palestinians support this genocide just like they supported Saddam Hussein when he was gassing the Kurds. I wish black people knew about the arab role in the slave trade and arab racism towards Africans.
Do you know about the Jewish Role in the Slave Trade? That video presents an outstanding discussion of Maimonedes racism in perpetuating the myth that blacks are eternally condemned to a life of slavery because of their fathers' beastiality.
Apologists for Israel continually make the point that critics of Israel single her out for special condemnation but but don't ever mention all the other countries in the world doing horrible things.
Well there's a reason we don't often mention the other countries and it's not malice towards Israel but rather the fact that everything Israel does reflects directly on us. The rest of the world regards Israel as our protégé. And with good reason. We are the ones sending Israel F-16s and ammunition. When Israel blows up a UN school the rest of the world blames America as well, because we are the ones who irresponsibly enable and defend her no matter what.
Olive,
Saddam did not gas the Kurds. That was debunked but never reported anywhere except in military press. Its another neocon Iraq War lie like the aluminum tubes and mushroom cloud.
Watch Pelletiere here:
DR. STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE has served as the Strategic Studies Institute’s Middle East expert since 1988 and travels frequently to the region. Prior to this appointment, he was an intelligence officer in Washington monitoring the Iran-Iraq war. He has also held positions in journalism and taught at the University of California-Berkeley, Ripon College, and Union College. He is the author of The Kurds—An Unstable Element in the Gulf and The Iran-Iraq War—Chaos in a Vacuum.
Thank you MRW this Halabja info is very valuable.
Her final and best words were left out of the post..inadvertently I am sure.
"Not one more bomb to Israel.
In defense of humanity, we will not give up and we will win."