The wall: there, and here

[donsu]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/080404Scott/080404scott.html

The tragedy of Palestine would be impossible without history's greatest job of mind management. Lincoln was wrong; you can fool most of the people, most of the time. The physical apartheid wall in Israel is possible only because of a mental apartheid wall in American consciousness.

The theft of a people's homeland, their exile, occupation and slaughter, is seen as the survival struggle of an oppressed Jewish nation. People otherwise able to differentiate between their heads and their buttocks still believe that a persecuted minority is innocently trying to create a haven for itself, escaping from the savagery of a heartless western world, to live in the savagery of a heartless Arab world. Why there? It seems that God selected this real estate, and promised it to a chosen tribe from which it had been stolen, and to which it would be returned at some unspecified later date.

Depending on degrees of political correctness, it seems permissible to disrespect, and even ridicule many religious beliefs as fairy tales. But this one is honored, often in embarrassed or nervous silence, by materially affluent people who suffer poverty only in their morals and politics.

The racial supremacist Nazi madness that murdered European Jews of the working class has become the rationale for a racial supremacist Israeli state, supported by American Jews of the middle and upper class. Without their financial and political actions, and especially those of their non-Jewish cohorts, this degradation of humanity could not last a minute in its present form. And every minute it is perpetuated, the world becomes a sadder, madder and more dangerous place, and not just for Palestinians.
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the article ends by saying:

The Presbyterian action endorsing sanctions against Israel is long overdue. It is time for people of conscience to follow their lead and tear down the wall of disinformation. Americans have already died because of our policy, and more will likely die unless it is changed. A socially just resolution of the ugly reality in Palestine is not merely in service to Palestinians and Jews, but to the whole world. And for Americans, it is not only a matter of conscience, but of survival as well.

[Jim Sagle]

1. Upside down logic and inside out morality.

The flat Earthers come out to play.

[donsu]

2. could you explain a little better

nt

[Jim Sagle]

3. The only truthful sentence in the article:

"it is not only a matter of conscience, but of survival as well."

Exactly so.

[comradebillyboy]

4. the israelis know from their own jewish history

that penning up outsiders and troublesome people in walled ghettos worked very well in europe. indeed jewish culture thrived in the ghettos of poland and the ukraine in the 17th and 18th centuries.

thus, they are doing great good for palestinean unity and cultural development. not committing a crime against humanity, but a gentler alternative to ethnic clensing.

[bemildred]

6. Heh.

Interesting. What will the result of this pressure cooker be?

I have said here on a few occasions that Israel is in the process
of creating the forces that will destroy it, which I still think is
correct, but all I get in return is silence.

It is easy to overlook the fact that Israel, in a very real sense,
generated Hizbollah, for instance, and Hamas.

What is being created in Iraq as we speak? I submit that it is not a
complacent pro-Western democracy.

Inflexible half-wits like BuSharon hasten these processes.

[number6]

5. Kick (that evil wall down)

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