Comments on: Keep Your Eye on the Ball; This Is Not about Rockets

By: purplepatriot

purplepatriot — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:23:43 +0000

Modern Israel exists largely in response to the genocide against Jews in Europe. It was an horrific episode in human history and Jewish outrage is understandable. Unfortunately, by international agreement the Palestinians have been required to atone for European sins against the Jews. The situation offends anyone interested in justice. An international solution establishing a new, sovereign Palestinian state is long overdue. Perhaps Obama can provide the leadership that Bush clearly could not, but the Europeans and Arab states that feign so much outrage must make sacrifices of their own to find a solution. A new Palestinian state extending from the coast of Gaza to the Jordanian border, supported by European and Arab economic and infrastructure investment and protected initially by UN peacekeeping forces and embraced by the US, would seem to be a constructive step forward. In return for international support, the Palestinians must firmly renounce and effectively prevent any acts of terror on their behalf. For it’s forfeiture of land, Israel gets a real chance at lasting peace – and to cleanse her hands of sixty years of injustice.

By: james nelson

james nelson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:51:00 +0000

There is, of course, also the issue of UN General Assembly Resolution 194, and the right of return for those refugees who had to leave during the “Nakba”.
Your “what if …..?” premise, however, is spot on!

By: mary

mary — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:31:03 +0000

Stu works very hard in the fight to get justice and freedom for the Palestinians and it is good to see his latest article here.

An excellent source of daily and up-to-date information about the Middle East can be found on Uruknet. Their main page today, as it is most days, is a litany of the harmful effects of the unspeakable horror being faced by the people in Gaza, Occupied Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Thanks to their Editors and also to the Editors on this site who enable us to read the work of the contributing authors and to give our opinions thereon. They are both very important resources particularly at this time.
http://uruknet.info/?p=-6&l=e

By: The Angry Peasant

The Angry Peasant — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:14:27 +0000

I agree with DavidG. Putting the Jews where we put them has proven to be far and away the most colossal mistake of the twentieth century. If it hadn’t been for the Jews own religious zealotry, we probably wouldn’t have. Surely there were plenty of unoccupied or under-occupied regions on this planet where they could have gone. Or perhaps they could have gone to many different countries and assimilated. Yet instead, we stole another country to make room for a new imperialist. It has led to decades and decades of bloodshed and global tension, and ultimately, I have little doubt, the third world war.
And then of course there is AIPAC. Rooted in the sixties, by the 1980’s this ridiculously powerful lobby had three-quarters of Congress in its back pocket. Reagan consulted AIPAC Director Thomas A. Dine concerning whether or not to station Marines in Beirut after Israel’s aggression there, and AIPAC has had the ear of virtually every President, senator, and congressman since. It was in the 80’s that AIPAC began deciding American Middle East policy. At that time, there were only about 58,000 active members of AIPAC and four Washington lobbyists. Now, AIPAC has grown into an undefeatable monster which has intimidated American politicians to a point where they now don’t dare even question Israel, no matter how grotesque its displays of tyranny over the Mideast region.
Amazing what the world (and of course Palestine) has endured and keeps enduring because of what Hitler did to a few million Jews, isn’t it?

By: DavidG.

DavidG. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:25:58 +0000

Stuart, there is as much chance of Israel accepting a two-state solution as there is of me flapping my arms and flying.

Israel is building a Jewish Empire and it wants not only all the Palestinian’s land but a chunk of Lebanon and Syria as well (and who knows whether it will stop there).

The creation of Israel was a huge geo-political mistake!

By: Passenger 57

Passenger 57 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:53:40 +0000

I don’t know why the fascists of Dissident Voice delete my post. So much for a democratic, socialist blogger.

I demand freedom of speech now, not fascism !!

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:28:06 +0000

Passinger57,

What is the real point of your post other than to deflect and obscure Zionism using reverse psychology. The tactic here is to imbue fear of a backlash against Jews in order to demobilize any real confrontation against Zionism. The Left has unfortunately adopted and has spread that fear in order to demobilize activism against Zionism. The people who read DV clearly understands the xenophobia and the Antisemitism of the Right and would never suggest embracing such rhetoric. However your post doesn’t aid the effort of constructing the kind of analysis and build the kind of action needed to confront Zionism and its influence upon U.S. policy.