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Guys look at this is an intresting letter regarding the situation in ME Isreal's brutality
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/NEWS/607190327/1022/OPINION02
How long will U.S. stand by Israel?
July 19, 2006
It appears to me that Israel, our close ally and the leading recipient, worldwide, of U.S. aid, is running out of control. While itself holding 9,000 Palestinians captive, including women and children, Israel has launched full-bore warfare, first against Gaza and now, in a giant escalation, against Lebanon, in order to retrieve three captured Israeli soldiers, and to retaliate against the erratic rocket attacks it has been enduring.
In densely populated Gaza, a humanitarian crisis is developing for the two-thirds of its inhabitants whose central electric transformers were just destroyed by Israeli fire. Besides illumination and refrigeration, the provision of water itself, in the hottest weeks of the Mediterranean year, has been crippled. And with Gaza's borders sealed and supplies of cooking gas running out, Gaza families may soon be unable to cook their grains and bake their bread, the elemental foods to which the poor have been reduced. A regime of stark collective punishment has been imposed on all of Gaza.
Has Israel gone mad, and is America, by its complicity, now abetting that madness? Israel's refusal even to consider negotiating the exchange of prisoners requested by Hamas has brought about a catastrophic escalation of mutual violence which could have been foreseen ââ¬â and averted, if Israel's big-brother-in-arms, the U.S., had said a stern word or two on the matter. That escalation has now embroiled neighboring Lebanon, whose major airport was just bombed by the Israeli airforce, in retaliation for the capture by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon of two Israeli soldiers, and for Hezbollah's sporadic rocket fire into Israeli territory that has just killed two Israelis.
Forty Lebanese deaths, so far, have resulted from Israel's retaliatory assault on Lebanon; among them two entire families, numbering seven and 10 members.
If Israel disdains the good opinion of her Arab neighbors, does she also have no regard for the opinion of the rest of the world? And where do we stand, who are Israel's foremost ally and enabler?
Jules Rabin
Marshfield
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/NEWS/607190327/1022/OPINION02
How long will U.S. stand by Israel?
July 19, 2006
It appears to me that Israel, our close ally and the leading recipient, worldwide, of U.S. aid, is running out of control. While itself holding 9,000 Palestinians captive, including women and children, Israel has launched full-bore warfare, first against Gaza and now, in a giant escalation, against Lebanon, in order to retrieve three captured Israeli soldiers, and to retaliate against the erratic rocket attacks it has been enduring.
In densely populated Gaza, a humanitarian crisis is developing for the two-thirds of its inhabitants whose central electric transformers were just destroyed by Israeli fire. Besides illumination and refrigeration, the provision of water itself, in the hottest weeks of the Mediterranean year, has been crippled. And with Gaza's borders sealed and supplies of cooking gas running out, Gaza families may soon be unable to cook their grains and bake their bread, the elemental foods to which the poor have been reduced. A regime of stark collective punishment has been imposed on all of Gaza.
Has Israel gone mad, and is America, by its complicity, now abetting that madness? Israel's refusal even to consider negotiating the exchange of prisoners requested by Hamas has brought about a catastrophic escalation of mutual violence which could have been foreseen ââ¬â and averted, if Israel's big-brother-in-arms, the U.S., had said a stern word or two on the matter. That escalation has now embroiled neighboring Lebanon, whose major airport was just bombed by the Israeli airforce, in retaliation for the capture by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon of two Israeli soldiers, and for Hezbollah's sporadic rocket fire into Israeli territory that has just killed two Israelis.
Forty Lebanese deaths, so far, have resulted from Israel's retaliatory assault on Lebanon; among them two entire families, numbering seven and 10 members.
If Israel disdains the good opinion of her Arab neighbors, does she also have no regard for the opinion of the rest of the world? And where do we stand, who are Israel's foremost ally and enabler?
Jules Rabin
Marshfield
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