Friday, January 16, 2009

Response to Daily’s Offensive Cartoon 1-16-09

16, January 2009,                  Response to Daily’s offensive cartoon

Your January 14 cartoon is a classic example of media bias. Contrary to Sentinel’s depiction of the conflict, are the searing images (see BBC and YouTube) of murdered children juxtaposed with their dismembered parents in boxes accompanied by the wailing sounds of grief stricken residents in the world’s largest man-made concentration camp. This is a testimony of Israel’s war of terror.

It speaks volumes of our own media bias that these images are hidden from the US public. Israel and we, as suppliers of these weapons of mass killing, have violated all norms of civilized conduct. The terror raining down on Gaza has little to do with Hamas and everything to do with Israel’s messianic zeal for territorial gain. It is telling that we in the US never hear a counter argument to “Israel has a right to exist.” Do not the indigenous people who were driven off their land have a right to exist?

Turn back the pages of history and we witness a consistent pattern of ethnic cleansing from “Plan D” of 1947-48 which resulted in the eradication of 369 Palestinian towns by the Jewish terrorist organization, Haganah, and the subsequent massacres and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians in such places as Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Eilaboun, Jish, Ramle and Lydda. As Rabbi Hescel so aptly stated “the greatest sin of all in the Nazi era was silence.” When we remain silent to the suffering and the incredible aggression against the Palestinian people, then we are all culpable.

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