On February 1, 2007 Senator Hillary Clinton's delusional remarks to AIPAC/ American Israel Public Affairs Committee, prove she has never outgrown her favorite movie for she remains a resident in the land of Oz.
The Democrat Demimondaine and Consummate Pandering Politician purred to AIPAC, "I've been a strong supporter of Israel's right to build a security barrier to keep terrorists out. I have spoken out against the International Court of Justice for questioning Israel's right to build that fence of security."
Clinton not only cares naught for the rule of law, she apparently does not read the august Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , "Financed with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile, the Israeli wall prevents residents from receiving health care and emergency medical services. In other areas, the barrier separates farmers from their olive groves which have been their families' sole livelihood for generations." [Page 43, Jan/Feb. 2007]
Clinton continued selling out we the people of America and the cause of peace and justice, "On my trip to Israel a little over a year ago, I went to see the fence with my own eyes. During a trip to Gilo, a Jerusalem neighborhood, I was greeted by Col. Danny Tirza, who was overseeing the construction of the security fence."
The facts on the ground are that Clinton 's Orwellian spun 'neighborhoods' are all ILLEGAL colonies for everyone exist on legally owned Palestinian land.
This reporter also went to see "the fence" which in actuality is composed of 25 to 30 foot high concrete slabs with razor wire, trenches, sniper towers, electric fences, military roads, electronic surveillance, remote controlled infantry and buffer zones that stretch over 100 miles wide that deny Palestinians access to their land, families, jobs, and resources.
Clinton's Jewish only colony of Gilo is less than a mile away from the ancient indigenous Christian village of Beit Jala , which is a five minute car ride from downtown Bethlehem. The Wall will soon completely separate Bethlehem and her sister villages of Beit Sahour, and Beit Jala from the northern parts of the West Bank. Because of Bethlehem's significance to and historic ties with Palestinian East Jerusalem, Bethlehem 's economic demise may well mark the beginning of the end of any viable Two-State solution.
If The Wall is completed in this area, 4000 dunums of the areas most fertile land will be isolated in order to accommodate for the expansion and the building of the ILLEGAL colonies/settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo. This means Beit Jala will have no potential for expansion.
This growing ghettoization of Bethlehem is not only destroying ancient communities, but the influx of nearly 900 new settlers, and plans for 30,000 new settlers to colonize the occupied West Bank , violates International Law and the Road Map, which prohibits settlement expansion.
The Wall and all of Israel 's settlement colonies are illegal under International Law, but Clinton cares naught for the rule of law and the truth is The Wall is an APARTHEID Wall for it divides, separates, humiliates, dominates, controls and denies inalienable human rights to the indigenous people of the Holy Land.
Clinton continued in her denial of reality, "Col. Tirza's explanation in his graphic depiction of what was part of the daily life of people living in that one neighborhood, gave me an even greater appreciation for the imperative of the fence and the need to do everything possible to protect Israel against these continuing attacks."
The truth is the 'attacks' originated because of the illegally settled inhabitants that are encroaching upon the indigenous people of Beit Jala and the 40 years of Occupation. International Law states occupation is to be temporary and the occupiers are not to transfer their population into occupied territory.
What Clinton is apparently clueless of is the fact that in the year 2000, in Beit Jala, some hopeless militants who had given up on the 'peace makers' of the West to demand Israel adhere to International Law, UN Resolutions and the UN Declaration of Human Rights, infiltrated this previously peaceful Christian village to shoot into the illegal colony of Gilo. The Israeli Defense Force immediately retaliated and the bedroom of George of Beit Jala was decimated.
The shrapnel that pierced the wall of George's sanctuary read "Made in USA" and was delivered from American made Apache helicopters that buzzed over his innocent head. If George had been in his bed, he would be dead.
I first met George of Beit Jala in June 2005, shepherded by an Internet connection, George Rishmawi, a Palestinian Christian, who met with the USA delegation from the interfaith, non-profit Olive Trees Foundation for Peace/OTFFP, of which I am a member. The OTFFP is dedicated to raising awareness and funds to help replace the over one million olive trees The Wall has destroyed.
During my initial visit with George of Beit Jala, I learned that he, his sister and mother all suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome, but Clinton, USA and Israeli government all just consider that collateral damage. George's father told me he has no bitterness about what happened even though the snipers had not even been near their home. The most difficult thing for him is the lack of employment opportunities in Bethlehem and being dependent on relatives and friends to feed his children.
I wonder how many Muslim-only towns there are... besides Mecca, where Jews or Christians are not allowed. Thousands? Tens of thousands? Of course, the Christians used to do this. They called it The Inquisition.
Any faith that does not respect other faiths has problems and I question whether that faith itself deserves respect.
Of course, the actions of a group within a faith does not represent the whole faith. And when extremists in a faith take over control of a nation and force others to adopt their ways, that is wrong too. When this kind of wrong exists, and there are efforts to end or dominate one faith by another, there is conflict. Leaving out the names, in my narrative, it is easy to see there are, sadly, a multiplicity of faiths that are guilty of these wrongs. Religious intolerance and theofascism is rampant throughout the world. Humanity has a long road ahead before peace is to be found. Reading Sy Hersh's latest by
Rob Kall (953 articles, 4178 quicklinks, 374 diaries, 2087 comments [45 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Monday, Feb 26, 2007 at 8:38:42 AM
And it seems to me, that we are at the crest of a GREATER AWAKENING;
My grandfather was a Polish Jew- he died before I could ask him how many of our relatives were gassed and fried because good people did nothing for far too long;
And as I understand the spark of The Divine/The Holy Spirit which is in all people and creation always leads us on and never backwards...
And what is missing today in politics and religion is the Spirit of common sense and wisdom:
"Soon after I had published the pamphlet "Common Sense" [on Feb. 14, 1776] in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion... The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."-Tom Paine
And The Way of HOLY WISDOM is JUSTICE and MERCY upon the poor and oppressed-
"Does not Wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise HER voice?...WISDOM is more precious than rubies and nothing you desire can compare with her...I love those who love me and those who seek me find me...I walk in THE WAY of righteousness, along the paths of JUSTICE."- Proverbs 8: 1, 9, 11, 17, 20
I intuit that we seekers of truth and common sense could very well be at the crest of a Greater Awakening:
For the pendulum always swings both ways,
The day of the 'right' wing is already over-
For "greedy leaders lead you where you should not go"-George Harrison, circa 1971
And we live in a dysfunctional world;
a world where wrong has become right;
And Orwell's nightmare has become reality:
For peace is war and
the poor and oppressed are stereotyped as "terrorists"
or in other ways deemed 'unworthy'
of our attention and intentions to do good because it is the right thing to do-
And so, I WONDER if we open minded and open hearted community on the www are being called by The Mystery we call God
To seek Justice and report The Truth-which leads to wisdom,
For we are The New Fourth Estate.
Just wondering...
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http://www.wearewideawake.org/
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Eileen Fleming (172 articles, 101 quicklinks, 274 diaries, 650 comments [16 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Feb 26, 2007 at 6:34:03 PM
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