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Subject:
Re: Genocide
vilsonov@yahoo.com
8/22/2002 8:45:44 AM
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>Perhaps it takes some level of intellect to realize the driving >problem underlying the issue of Palestine - a forty year-old Israeli >occupation, which contravenes numerous UN and international laws.
Or the continual unwillingness of the Palestinians and selected neighbors to fully accept in any form the existence of Israel. Until that happens, it'll be hard for the Israelis to cooperate with anybody on the other side. Perhaps we've seen evidence of the PA realizing it has to chose between coexistence and self-immolation with the recent cease fire. One would have to be extremely optimisitic to think so.
>Israel has flouted international law and consensus by continuing >their colonial practice of building illegal settlements on occupied >land (violation of Article 49).
Considering the land is contested, this would be a hard argument to make. Land captured in the course of a war (land that neither Egypt nor Jordan make any claim to) is hardly colonialism.
>The simple question is, aside from the genocide of the Palestinian >nation in the years since 1948 which the reader fails to even >mention (as if the Palestinians are not suffering in the least under >Israel''s brutal, illegal, and terroristic regime), is whether or >not Jews onsider themselves above international law, that they do >not need bother adhering to internationally accepted codes of >conduct?
The above is simply untrue. The term genocide is tossed around lightly in the hopes that people will develop some form of moral equivlance between the Israelis and the Nazis. Simply preposterous. Continued use of the terms "brutal" or "illegal" are also patently false, especially use of the term "illegal" to contrive a false argument relating to the lands captured in 1967. One may well argue settlements are undesirable or even an obstacle to a long-term solution, but they are not illegal.
The funniest part of the above statement is why the question of why the various Arab regimes and factions don't get held to any recognizable standard of international conduct by their apologists.
>It is important to remember that Israel''s use of terror to achieve >their goals, going back to the infamous actions of the Stern Gang >and the Haganah, (to name just two Jewish death squads)prior to and >after 1948, precedes any ultra-violent Palestinian resistance and >reaction to said state terror, as we have seen with the horrific >homicide bombings.
More historical fiction. Both of those groups no longer functioned after 1948, nor do Israeli self-defense measures justify the road the Palestinians have taken, which has been self-destructive and self-defeating. Palestinian terror dates back to at least 1955, and Arab terrorism toward Jews in then British Mandatory Palestine date back to the 1920s and 1930s.
>But as Americans are quite unable to ask "why such things occur", it >is no wonder that America''s "51st state" - Israel - also chooses to >ignore its supreme culpability in the matter, in line with the >unilateral imperial actions of its surrogate.
More nonsense. I would be curious to see if anybody felt there was moral culpability for those other states in the world (such as the various European ones) who encourage terrorism by turning a blind eye to the more egregious violations of standards of international conduct perpetrated by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and their ilk.
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