Palestine

Only a newspaper under the thumb of the Israeli Embassy's PR machine could print a story in which they say the only time that Palestine is on the front page is for violent acts and that the PR machine known as Hamas has outfoxed the Israeli's.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1705816,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-world

No, this is not the time to debate the name "Palestine". That said, the truth is that Israel keeps finding excuses to; build around Palestinians - suffocating them, refuse issue of building certificates and tearing down houses that are built without - all the while with many many still living in UN Refugee Camps, and (best of all) they continue their illegal occupation.

The truth is that the Palestinians are not an innately violent people. And the Israelis are not so peaceful. As long as Israel occupies land siezed in 1967 I will consider them the agressor. The state of Israel began as an idea, then a de facto state, then a torturer.

I say torturer because the "state" of Israel continues to suffocate the lives of Palestinians and all the while accuse them of being violent. Find me an intelligent person that wouldn't start to heat up and boil over when their everyday life was disrupted on many levels by a trumped-up de facto state created and sustained by funding of foreign countries...that stifles your economy, blocks your travel to employment and education, restricts water...while next door to you, in their de facto state....your Israeli neighbors have swimming pools, lots of drinking water, no travel restrictions.....ability to travel within their own de facto state and well...the world!

I don't think it is reasonable to expect an entire supressed people to live next door to such wealth and remain quiet and completely peaceful. Really! People in a poorer Los Angeles downtown city area were OUTRAGED by the lavish building of Our Lady of Angeles Cathedral adjancent to abject poverty. It's not surprising. If that causes such uproar....imagine the other.

And why oh why does America continue to fund Israel? You could say that since the US supplies weaponry and funding to Israel, that perhaps they should bow down to Lebanon and help build what Israel destroyed last year. Hey why not? If it wasn't for such funding by the US Israel would not be able to stand on its own two feet.

And here is my disclaimer: Anyone who starts thinking I am anti-semetic must stop that drama immediately. I am merely opposed to the philosophy of giving a safe haven to one people and as a result displacing others. Futhermore, those given the safe haven became the aggressors themselves. Well at least their government did. But it was more important that they had a country after all.
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