Another nail in the coffin.
Monday, May 13th, 2002
The relationship between Israel and the Palestinians has steadily gone from bad to worse since Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. And now the supporters of Binyamin Netanyahu - a man who was unable (and/or unwilling) to further Rabin’s work towards peace during his own time as prime minister and who was pushed out of office by a landslide defeat in an election that he called for himself - seem intent on hammering the final nail into the coffin of the Middle East.
In November 1995, I was in my dorm room at college listening to the radio with my friend Kim when we heard that Rabin had been assassinated. I remember Kim turned to me, eyes wide, and said gravely, "This is historic. This changes everything."
How right she was.
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Actually nothing has changed since May, 1947. In a scenario created by British promises to Arab nations (of their creation) and the guilt of the world for the Holocaust, Israel was created in blood and may very well die in the same fashion. Until sanity comes to rule so that mothers and fathers don’t celebrate the "martrydom" of their children and the victims of terrorism realize that terrorist reactionism can not be the rule, there can be no peace … only the absence of outright war!
In response to Saturday’s comments about America’s refusal to support a war crimes tribunal … of course we have things to hide!!! Calley was not the only murderer in Vietnam and there have been many more since then. It is expedient to kill in the darkeness of our hearts and keep our crimes quiet as long as we are a "superpower". The only "good news" is we are not the only ones …
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