Jeff Blankfort makes the following excellent point re the Baird and Ellison op-ed in the Seattle Times:
Accuse me of paranoia but two items are strangely missing from that
otherwise excellent article by Baird and Ellison and they are not
minor. While there is mention of the paltry sums that the US had
provided the Palestinian Authority, there is no mention of the billions of aid and
weaponry that the US has given Israel over the years, nor that the weapons used to carry out the destruction of Gaza
were American and that reassessing US-Israel relations is not an option
but a responsibility since the US has been a willing accessory to
Israel's crimes.The way the article presents the problem, those not familiar with the details of the issue might think the interest of the two members of Congress is strictly a humanitarian one which under the circumstances is not enough.
