17, August 2005 Gaza Evacuation
We Americans must share the blame for the
fiasco masquerading as US Middle East policy. We have
funded Israel's occupation, colonization of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and
East Jerusalem and must therefore share the
responsibility of aiding and abetting the enormous repression
and suffering of the Palestinians. American Jews and the former settlers of
Gaza should vent their anger and outrage against
the Israeli government and Ariel Sharon, the undisputed
architect of these illegal settlements. Since the inception of Israel in 1948,
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their land and thousands
of acres expropriated for the exclusive use of Israel's Jewish
citizens.
Israeli historians, Israeli Human rights
organizations and leading Israeli journalist, Amira Mass, have been highly
critical of Israel's apartheid policy of ethnic cleansing.
Consider one example of such a disparity. A majority of the Jewish settlers have
accepted a compensation package - between $150,000 to $400,000 - from the
Israeli government in return for leaving Gaza. In addition, they are reimbursed
removal expenses and receive 2 years free rent! By contrast the thousands of
Palestinians working for the settlers will receive nothing.
Israel is seeking an additional $2 billion dollars in more aid to help defray operating
costs to vacate the Gaza Strip which was seized illegally! While much of the
world focuses on the evacuation of the Gaza Strip,
Israel continues to build more settlements in the West Bank and is
expropriating more Palestinian land to construct the apartheid wall. Such
actions tarnish the image of the Jewish faith which is supposedly based on truth, peace and justice for all.
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