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Quick thoughts: US veto at the United Nations
Apartheid, meaning “apartness” Afrikaans, refers to the legally and physically enforced system of racial segregation and discrimination that existed in South Africa as official state policy for the large part of the second half of the 20th century, although the term can also refer generally to any similar policy of racial separation.
Israel must be the target of the same kind of global movement that finally ended apartheid in South Africa. The US veto yesterday at the UN Security Council signaled, if nothing else, the unwillingness of the US government to be part of, much less spearhead, such a global movement.
The idea that the Middle East situation is complicated, that there are moral ambiguities, is problematic. It’s not complicated. It’s not ambiguous. It’s a simple question of whether or not you agree with or tolerate oppression. This is not a political question, a matter of left versus right, but simply a question of why one would support or tolerate oppression.
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Mondoweiss: Not my President
- Yesterday the State Department warned that if Israel chose to attack, kill or imprison American citizens this country would do nothing about it.
- Earlier today Hillary Clinton said the brave Americans wanting to break the siege on Gaza were provocateurs and that Israel knows best on how to make sure goods get into Gaza.
- Now the White House says that American activists are breaking the law because they are providing support to a terrorist organization—the people of Gaza are a terrorist organization—and will be subject to fines and jail.
Such shameful statements by the State Department, when will Americans question whose interest their elected officials are working in? Political parties, skin color and gender apparently play no role when Israel is concerned.
No kidding. I (absentee) voted for the Obama who was going to close Guantanamo Bay, draw down our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, not launch into more foreign wars, and take a stronger stand against Israeli belligerence than recent past presidents. What the what has happened?
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“They’re one of our best friends in the world.” - Tim Pawlenty, on Israel
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