Reuters reports: There’s no real freeze on settlers; Israel plans to add 10,000 in the next few months.
"This is neither a freeze nor a suspension," [Likud minister Benny Begin was quoted as saying]. "Construction in Judea and Samaria will continue in the next 10 months," he said, using the Biblical term for the West Bank.
And here is the great Gideon Levy on the lawless settlers, and on the lawless state. The piece seems to be pointing to the one-state solution. Another interpretation: The US might have stepped in to stop this, as it stopped Jim Crow; but it didn’t, and look what we have now, apartheid.
Gush Dan [Tel Aviv] remained indifferent to what was going on just a short trip to the east in Hevel Binyamin [on the West Bank]- the pictures of the settlers forcibly blocking the law enforcers, and the council heads tearing up the orders, didn’t rouse them from their deep, multi-year coma.
On June 11, 1963, Alabama governor George Wallace stood outside Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama and physically prevented two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from entering. Wallace, who coined the phrase "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," was trying to block implementation of the law banning racial segregation in his state. Only the presence of the deputy U.S. attorney general and National Guard troops kept the governor from taking the law into his own hands. Wallace was compelled to step aside and let the black students into the class. The rest is history – the American history of upholding the law.
Around here, no attorney general or state prosecutor has thought to personally stand up to the rebellious council leaders, as in Alabama, and our national guard troops are still apologizing to the settlers. Anyone upset by their behavior ought to direct his anger at the state, not at them. The state that permitted, funded, secured, invested in, paved and built, turned a blind eye and kept silent in the face of all the violations of the law that accompanied this enterprise from day one…. We didn’t know that this is what grew there, in the land of lawlessness, which is an inseparable part of the State of Israel.
Surprise, surprise, Israel lied.
Gideon Levy should have the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Obama.
It’s truly terrifying that a country who kicked Wallace and David Duke et al to the curb could allow
what is going on with Israel’s activities. Not only allow it, but enable it. We don’t even have a practical US interest (like oil) to justify it. How immoral can you get? And how impractical too? How many 9/11 do we wish to breed? And all of this even now, when
our land is undergoing extreme bankruptcy?
It’s not 9/11s we’ll be looking forward to, with the economy it’s in the state it’s in (hell, we’ve given al Qaeda exactly what they wanted by sending our armies to battlefields of their choosing). It’s more Oklahoma Cities that will be the real catastrophe.
Obama equated al Qaeda with Hitler to justify his sending 30,000 more (additional to 20,000) American farm kids to Afghanistan ( 1000,000 there when this completes?);
how accurate is this model? We all know it’s the reliable selling point (to Western eyes, magnified by hasbara), but the truth?
Obama says war is peace, in essence. Does he know Orwell? I doubt it; does he even know Orwell was attacking the USSR philosophy? I doubt it. Does he know what his implemented philosophy will do, is doing? The last thing Obama thinks he is, is a fascist; but is he really thinking results through? No. The best I can say, is Obama is well-intentioned. I’m not even sure about that when it comes probable impact on all the American people, or on the world’s people. I give him only that he can articulate the good notions–too bad he closes his eyes to the many lessons of world history that show the best intentions often go astray…. He’s not Shrub, but , he’s not Shmuel either.
The US sent the National Guard to put Wallace in his place, hence we should send the US National Guard (and the Marines, Army, Air Force, special forces, etc) to israel to put them in their place … we’re sending our soldiers into “combat” against the wrong agents of evil
RE: ” Wallace was compelled to step aside and let the black students into the class. The rest is history – the American history of upholding the law.” – Levy
FROM WIKIPEDIA: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it! … Build a fire under them. When it gets hot enough, they’ll go.” – Andrew Jackson, 1832, The Trail of Tears Across Missouri.
SOURCE – link to en.wikipedia.org
Why not ask why the Jewish groups that still crow about supporting the civil rights struggle in the U.S. were also supporting the far more brutal and repressive war on the Palestinians? What were their motives for supporting civil rights at home and Nakba in the name of their co-ethnics abroad? Should we take these people seriously when they talk about human rights?
Whatever George Wallace was, he was not in the same league as the Israeli and Jewish leaders who plotted and carried out the destruction of the Palestinians. Comparing segregation to the Nakba makes no sense. I don’t even think that comparing segregation to South African apartheid is apt.
Why should the policies of Jewish groups abroad and at home be divorced? Israel isn’t the only issue where the interests of organized Jewish groups stand out as being different from the interests of most Americans.