26,
April 2012 Attempt to gag 60
Minutes
Well
the dirty secret is finally out. In a gross attempt to censor Bob Simon’s 60
Minutes report on Palestinian Christians, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren
called the head of CBS news and made a clumsy attempt to quash the damning
expose.
Simon’s
report described the brutal displacement of Palestinian
Christians and the colonization of their land by the Israeli military.
Hitherto, the presence of Palestinians Christians has been carefully hidden
from the American public.
We now learn that there are Palestinian Lutherans,
Catholics and Episcopalians.
These followers of Christ are subjected to the same
humiliating treatment as their Muslim brethren - akin to the treatment of
apartheid South African blacks. For example, they have to seek travel permits
and pass through numerous military check points for short 7 miles trips which
often turn into an all-day ordeals.
60 Minutes showed the Separation Wall looming like a
menacing Darth Vader over Palestinian hovels and shows the stark disparity
between the living conditions and resources of Palestinians and Jewish
settlers. Bethlehem, Jesus’s birthplace, has now been isolated by the wall. 18%
of its inhabitants are Christian who complain bitterly that their city has been
reduced to an “open-air prison.”
The West Bank now looks like a lump of Swiss cheese, with
Israeli colonies grabbing the good land and water resources, and the stateless
Palestinians pushed into the dark holes.
Why
are our scarce tax dollars propping up this inhumane, apartheid system?
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