The Palestinian people have been crying out to the world for some time now but their plaintive cry of injustice has been muted by Israeli and American indifference as well a powerless U.N. But a growing number of Israelis know this and one of them, Amira Hass, passionately points out to Israel what it obviously does not want to see.
Allen L Roland
CAN YOU REALLY NOT SEE ?
By Amira Hass
From Haaretz, 8/30/06
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756413.html
Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us."
Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction.
Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors.
Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators.
These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners.
But there are others. Historians and mathematicians, senior editors, media stars, psychologists and family doctors, lawyers who do not support Gush Emunim and Kadima, teachers and educators, lovers of hiking trails and sing-alongs, high-tech wizards.
Where are you?
And what about you, researchers of Nazism, the Holocaust and Soviet gulags? Could you all be in favor of systematic discriminating laws? Laws stating that the Arabs of the Galilee will not even be compensated for the damages of the war by the same sums their Jewish neighbors are entitled to.
Could it be that you are all in favor of a racist Citizenship Law that forbids an Israeli Arab from living with his family in his own home?
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