7,
November 2016 Israel
Responding to mounting international pressure to
reach an accommodation with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Netanyahu used one
of his video postings, accusing Palestinian demands for the removal of 650,000
illegal Jews from the occupied territories as “ethnic cleansing”.
He
insisted that the Palestinians recognize the illegal settlers as ‘lawful’ as a
precondition to peace talks.
This
is akin to claims from illegal alien squatters who break into your home as
legal occupants on the grounds that forcible eviction would amount to “ethnic
cleaning”. This harks back to the early days of the plundering of American
Native lands as “homesteading” or declaring land as lawful by ‘right of
possession” as depicted in Hollywood Western movies.
Netanyahu’s latest
demands has generated a huge backlash and ridicule by the international
community which accuses Netanyahu of twisting the very definition of ethnic
cleansing which is the expulsion,
imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to
achieve ethnic homogeneity.
Netanyahu latest tirade is an effort to toss another
roadblock to Palestinians statehood.
Israel must feel elated that President Obama buckled
under pressure in his waning few months in office signing a $38 billion
military aid package.
This
is an appalling misuse of taxpayer money which is in critical need to rebuild
America’s infrastructure, shore up our health care and provide relief for
college tuitions.
Israel should not be rewarded for their bad
behavior- decades of an illegal occupation and oppression of the indigenous
people.
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