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The ‘vilest form of racism’

The Aspen Times | January 26, 2010

Dear Editor:

Perhaps the reason Israel sponsored field hospitals in Haiti is because they feel compelled to improve their image in the eyes of the world after last year’s revelations of war crimes, human rights abuse and continued illegal building in occupied Palestine.

You see, Israel is far from being the “diverse and vibrant bastion of democracy” claimed by one of its local supporters. In Israeli-occupied Palestine, a system of apartheid is utilized to keep both Christian and Muslim Arabs separate from the Jewish population.

In fact, Israel’s declared goal is to create a homogeneous Jewish state. To that end they employ the most sinister means of ethnic cleansing: intimidation, imprisonment, starvation, eviction, denying access to jobs, farms, medical care, food and clean water.

Jewish settlers create disease in the Palestinian population by dumping untreated sewage into their water supply. The injured and ill die and women give birth in the dirt at military barriers because they’re not allowed to cross Israeli-controlled territory to reach the hospital. Israeli military operations resulting in multiple civilian deaths are conducted to further reduce the Arab population.

As final proof of their intent to eliminate Arabs, Israel sends medical help to people thousands of miles away, while actively preventing humanitarian aid from reaching people right next door.

Israel’s brutal all-out attack on the people of Gaza a year ago resulted in the same proportion of devastation as the Haitian earthquake. But for an entire year, Israel has blocked the entry of significant amounts of food, medicine, fuel, and construction materials as well as access by aid workers into Gaza. Imagine if that had happened in Haiti.

The implication in our local Israel supporters’ uneven concern for the needs of Palestinians versus Haitians, is that Arabs deserve to be denied humanitarian aid because they belong to the same ethnic group or religion as “terrorists.”

This is the vilest form of racism. Palestinian children are just as innocent and needy as Haitian children, and deserve to be treated with equal compassion. But the supposedly “soul-inspiring” nation of Israel is directly responsible for the death, dismemberment, disease, and orphaning of thousands of these children.

The fallacy of Israel’s alleged noble ideals is finally exposed in light of their hypocrisy in providing aid to Haiti, while the Palestinians (whom Israel as the foreign occupier is charged to care for under humanitarian law), are routinely denied their most basic needs.

Sue Gray

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Dear Editor:

In response to all babble coming out of Sue Gray and her mouth …

Sue, you are on the warpath to make it known how much you dislike Israel. Well, since I couldn’t care less about the actual point you are trying to make, here are two cents just about you.

Sue, do you pay taxes? Are you proud to be an American? Do you buy local? Do you support your neighbors and community? Seriously, do you live just like myself and others and represent America in a decent, law-abiding manner?

Well, guess what, if you pay your taxes, I guarantee at least one penny of it has gone toward Israel in one manner or another. Whether it is food, water, clothing or weapons, I guarantee at least one penny of your tax money has bought an Israeli a chance to defend against your precious Palestinians. I can goddamn guarantee at least one penny of your tax dollars has gone toward a bullet, a gun or a bomb that has killed an Israeli, and a Palestinian. You have paid for an American soldier to travel across seas and support a war you are clearly against. You pay for the funeral of a life lost over a problem bigger than yourself.

Sue, unless you can track every cent you’ve paid in taxes (if you pay them in the first place), I know you have funded your enemy, the Israeli state. I know you have inadvertently killed your “do no wrong” Palestinian people. And most likely have been for years.

Now, unless you decide to exile yourself, and leave America, no longer being a citizen of this country, you can make it so your lifestyle, the American Dream of living here with freedom, is no more. You can move elsewhere in this world. But just think what country out there has not supported Israel in some manner or another? Or supported a country that does support Israel? Or any support to any cause you don’t agree with for that matter.

You have no problem attacking Israel itself over its actions. But your actions, however small, are not only supporting those who you hate, but also killing those you love.

This country is amazing because you can have values of your own, live out your dreams and fight for noble (or not) causes. But I hope you realize every penny you make and spend can be killing and destroying someone else’s life, whether you want to admit it or not. Your life can stand up for what values you hold dear, and thank you for doing so, but I hope you know you are responsible for this problem too, as are we all.

Chris Everding

Glenwood Springs

Carbondale

January 27, 2010 - Posted by aletho | Deception, Mainstream Media, Warmongering, Supremacism, Social Darwinism