Jordan Times (Opinion Section)
Jordan Times (Opinion Section): "Editorial:
How some sleep easy
The US Senate passed a resolution condemning Hizbollah, Syria and Iran, and expressing support for Israel’s murder of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon. (Presumably the wording will be slightly different).
The resolution had been postponed because of some senators’ insistence on inserting a clause expressing “sympathy” with civilian casualties.
Well, that’s alright then. The US has once again proved to be a country in which the highest principles of human values are protected and safeguarded, a paragon of justice and a model for the rest of the world to follow.
Unless, of course, you happen to be Arab, Muslim or unfortunate enough to be caught up in the Israeli army’s unrestrained acts of naked brutality. Because, according to the US, Israel acts only in self-defence, whether it is killing children and families in Lebanon or in Gaza, or bombing airports, power plants, roads, bridges, levelling villages and similarly targeting other “threats to its national security.”
There can only be one explanation. Racism. For while it might be expected that the US would denounce Hizbollah for conducting a cross-border raid that ended in the capture of two Israeli soldiers provoking an inevitable response, it cannot possibly be accepted that when that response is as indiscriminate, bloody and murderous as it is, no voices of criticism are heard from official circles in the US.
Indeed, pro-Israel American groups are planning demonstrations in major cities in the US in support of the Israeli campaign of bloodshed. What, one wonders, will be written on their placards. Kill more Arabs?
And why bother? When official support for anything Israel does is so strong that the US president is overheard swearing at the head of state of a third party, not one of the principal parties involved, pro-Israel lobbies in America ought to rest at ease in their beds.
Only dead Israelis count in America. Dead"
How some sleep easy
The US Senate passed a resolution condemning Hizbollah, Syria and Iran, and expressing support for Israel’s murder of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon. (Presumably the wording will be slightly different).
The resolution had been postponed because of some senators’ insistence on inserting a clause expressing “sympathy” with civilian casualties.
Well, that’s alright then. The US has once again proved to be a country in which the highest principles of human values are protected and safeguarded, a paragon of justice and a model for the rest of the world to follow.
Unless, of course, you happen to be Arab, Muslim or unfortunate enough to be caught up in the Israeli army’s unrestrained acts of naked brutality. Because, according to the US, Israel acts only in self-defence, whether it is killing children and families in Lebanon or in Gaza, or bombing airports, power plants, roads, bridges, levelling villages and similarly targeting other “threats to its national security.”
There can only be one explanation. Racism. For while it might be expected that the US would denounce Hizbollah for conducting a cross-border raid that ended in the capture of two Israeli soldiers provoking an inevitable response, it cannot possibly be accepted that when that response is as indiscriminate, bloody and murderous as it is, no voices of criticism are heard from official circles in the US.
Indeed, pro-Israel American groups are planning demonstrations in major cities in the US in support of the Israeli campaign of bloodshed. What, one wonders, will be written on their placards. Kill more Arabs?
And why bother? When official support for anything Israel does is so strong that the US president is overheard swearing at the head of state of a third party, not one of the principal parties involved, pro-Israel lobbies in America ought to rest at ease in their beds.
Only dead Israelis count in America. Dead"
posted by Blackgold at 9:20 PM
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how right this piece is!
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