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Dark Starless Nights in Bethlehem, p. 3 The
shock of our so-called "Representatives" - oblivious to this
nation’s interests - cheering and supporting a foreign country
while it is in the act of inflicting the same brutal massacres on the
Palestinians as the German's inflicted on the Jews in WWII, is devastating
to what remains of America’s self respect. Bush acting like Sharon’s
poodle projects the image of a frightening Evil Empire ruled by a weak
madman approving war while blabbering peace, accepting mass murders
while spouting Christian compassion, and pretending not to see the crimes
committed by his rebellious governor of Palestine, Pontius Pilate (Sharon)
foaming at the mouth and telling the weak Texan Caesar to go chase cows
on his ranch. But little Caesar is desperately trying to keep his dad's
Saudi Arabian oil partners happy and get some help for revenge against
Saddam Hussein. Sharon wouldn't mind returning favors and assisting
in Bush's planned massacres in Iraq for a share of its oil. Maybe all
this will help the Texas Emperor. Quite a juggling act that might blow
up like the Venezuelan Bush oil coup. Having
lived in a fascist state I feel a duty to sound out these warnings of
impending national disaster. As a citizen of the United States I have
the Constitutional right to loudly protest what our unelected administration
is doing and expose the negligence of many representatives in our irresponsible
Congress. After reading the following astonishing front page statements
in our mainstream press, I felt I was back under Mussolini in fascist
Italy: Congress clasped Israel in a warm embrace on Thursday, passing resolutions of support for the Jewish state and blessing its recent military campaign as an attempt at "dismantling the terrorist infrastructure" in Palestinian territory..."Let every terrorist know, the American people will never abandon freedom, democracy or Israel," said Texas Rep Tom DeLay. "Recent attacks directed against Israelis," the House GOP whip added, "are attacks against liberty, and all free people must recognize that Israel's fight is our fight." How
dare Tom Delay speak for “free people” and how dare this sweat
shop promoter utter sacred words like "freedom" and "democracy"
and in the same breath support the massacre of Palestinians with weapons
funded by the American taxpayer - in arrant violation of laws regarding
arms sales to Israel which are to be used for defense purposes only
- not to attack, destroy, and murder innocent people. I
am sick and tired of hearing cheap accusations of “anti-Semitism”
belched helter-skelter, shotgun fashion, against U.S. citizens who dare
criticize anything Jewish. If we say we don't like lox and bagels or
can't stand matzo ball soup, we are called anti-Semitic. Jews who all
too easily accuse others of being Anti-Semitic are invariably racist
toward other ethnic groups, especially Arabs, who are also Semites!
To be anti any one race is to be antihuman. The
Jewish Holocaust was unquestionably a tragedy of epic proportions and
Jews are correct to do all they can so the world doesn't forget, but
they, of all people, should not be the ones to imitate or repeat the
aggression, torture, imprisonment, or persecution they suffered during
those evil times. Unfortunately, it seems that the Israeli government
and many American Jews have forgotten or choose to disregard history.
Fortunately, not all have fallen to this Nazi level of evil and many
are protesting Israel's heightened aggression. Sharon
is a terrorist beast of old standing who behaves like a Nazi. Now he,
like they, is trying to hide evidence of brutal massacres and to prevent
an investigation by the UN in collusion with the U.S. Isn't that why
America talks about a summer conference - to give Israel time
to conceal its staggering new human holocaust? Mighty Israel and mighty
America in self-righteous pursuit of revenge have fallen to the same
low level of terrorist actions as those they want to prevent and in
so doing fertilize the ground of evil. If
our civilization could see the world as my Jewish friend so eloquently
wrote: "I believe in a spiritual universe that emanates from an
ineffably numinous source in which each of us plays an important role,"
then all lives would be sacred: the African, the Caucasian, the Asian,
the Polynesian. As human beings each of us can be objective only when
we hold no secret presumption of being superior by race, gender, or
in any other way. To feel superior because an infantile image of God
makes us believe that the Numinous Source, the Infinite Principle that
manifested the Universe, is a God so petty as to choose only our tribe
above all others - this fanatical interpretation by Jews, Christians,
and Moslems alike has been the cause of centuries of evil and injustice. Only when we understand the irrefragable reality of equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all humans will we find the way of peace and the energy and resources to turn this planet back into an abundant Garden.
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