Mr. Friedman's article
should be more aptly titled "Truth or Consequences".
Unfortunately neither he nor anyone in this country "can stand
the truth", for any truth regarding Israel has serious
consequences. Let's try these truths:
1. Israel didn't exist prior to
1947 and was forcefully imposed by England, the U.S. and the United Nations
for domestic (Jewish influence), international (a western colony in the
MidEast), and holocaust sympathy by physically displacing a native
population into the squalor of refugee camps.
2. From its inception Zionism
has sought to expand Israel into Arab land by wars.
3. After its founding by UN
affirmation, Israel with American taxpayer, military, and veto support has
defied and defiled countless UN Resolutions, Geneva Convention, and
international laws regarding acquiring land by force, dispossessing
civilians, and creating illegal "settlement" facts on the ground.
4. Without Jewish and Media
support, without Jewish campaign money to pandering Congressmen, without the
demonization of Arabs and Islam in America, Israel would already have
peace and security with its neighbors instead of a cover to tear up the holy
land and its lives.
5. Arafat and his cronies are
responsible for corruption, lies, manipulation, stupid politics and
terrorist acts that hurt the Palestinians.
6. The corrupt, self serving,
dictators in the Arab world have removed any semblance of respect for Arabs
and Islam. Priority one is self preservation at all costs. Their bellicose
words match their impotent backbones. Their military and police are used to
preserve their seat, oppress their people and deny freedoms and education to
their people that allow a Sharon to trample on holy sites and human rights.
7. The end of the Cold War
ensured American dominance of the U.N. to the detriment of world peace and
justice.
In effect, all are to blame, but
none more so than Friedman's and America's blind acceptance of Israel's
"Truth" so help us God.
Mr. Mohamed Khodr is an American
Muslim physician and a native from the Middle East. He has worked in
Academic Medicine and Public health with national and international
health experience. He is a freelance writer who often writes columns
on the Palestinian cause, Islam and on America's Foreign Policy in the
Middle East. He lives in the Washington DC area.
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