Monday, October 19, 2015

Israel 10-19-2015

                                                            Israel               

Predictably, the pressure cooker situation in Israel has finally exploded with spasms of violence by Palestinians and Israelis. Prime Minister Netanyahu and his rightwing government have incited much of the violence by expanding Jewish settlements and ignoring settler terrorist attacks. About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settler terrorism has been ongoing for decades with impunity. The cycle of violence will continue as long as the US government continues to show its blatant partiality by sending huge shipments of weapons to Israel and deflecting censure and criticism by using its veto power at the UN.
Israel has reached a South Africa moment, when more and more European countries and American Jews are voicing frustration and anger at the deteriorating situation, and lending support to the growing BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement. By assuring Israel of its unshakeable support and alliance, regardless of its appalling history of human rights violations and suffocating occupation, the US is complicit in the ongoing mayhem. 

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