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December 2014 Response to NYT OP ED RE: Israel’s policies
Jonathan Schanzer betrays his utter bias in
echoing Israel’s tiresome propaganda to deflect growing criticism over its
apartheid policies. Israel uses the standard playbook of former colonial powers
describing any opposition parties to its occupation as terrorists. It is time
Israel stops being coy about its own huge arsenal of nuclear weapons. Unlike
the US who pledges undying love for Israel regardless of its mammoth crimes, a
seismic shift is occurring in European capitals increasingly frustrated by Israeli’s
intransigence towards Palestinian sovereignty, – building more and more
settlements on Palestinian land - and its home demolitions. The European Union
has urged Israel to immediately halt its expansionist policies, end its illegal
occupation and lift the siege of Gaza. Current Israel policy, driven by right
wing ideologues, is fueling much of the intensifying Palestinian rage and the
cycle of unending violence.
Dahlia Scheindlin, an Israeli analyst and pollster, said, “Israel is losing Europe and Public opinion has shifted decidedly against Israel.” There is a growing realization that the soft talk of the US Administration has been an abject failure and must be replaced with European economic sanctions.
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