How Many More Innocents Must Die Before the World Realizes that Israel is Gathering Thorns and Thistles?
By JASON MILLER -- World News Trust
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”---Bishop Desmond Tutu
In Gaza, the elephant has finally removed its foot from the mouse’s tail. Much to the dismay of the mouse, the behemoth is not done with him. Not this elephant. He has decided to bring his immense weight to bear on the mouse’s miniscule body, sadistically reveling at the sight of the blood oozing from the mouse’s bodily orifices as it is gradually reduces it to a mass of flattened pulp.
I abandoned my neutrality long ago. My thoughts, prayers, support, and activist efforts as an essayist, small Internet publisher, and dissident against the American Empire are with the Palestinians. I am deeply sickened by fact that the United States government finances Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians with my tax dollars. It enrages me that AIPAC and bellicose supporters of Israel dictate so much of our foreign policy.
Enabler of Ethnic Cleansing
The elephant has received more than $140 billion in financial support from the United States since World War II. U.S. subsidies to the Israeli government and military average $15 million per day. Palestinian NGO’s were receiving a pitiful $232,000 per day (for non-military use only) from the United States prior to the termination of U.S. aid to punish Palestinians for choosing the “wrong” leaders in their democratic elections.
Thanks to America’s benevolence, Israel possesses a formidable military. Israel has more than 3,800 tanks, 1,500 large artillery pieces, 2,000 aircraft (including U.S.-manufactured F-16s), and is widely believed to possess powerful nuclear capabilities.
The mouse recently had the audacity to bite the elephant’s toe. Some of the more militant members of the Palestinian community, who refuse to quietly acquiesce to extermination, kidnapped an Israeli soldier, an 18 year old Jewish settler and a 62 year old Israeli man.
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