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Carte blanche slaughter and mass destruction with impunity passed unanimously. Not a single profile in courage supported right over wrong. Not Senators Bernie Sanders, Al Franken or Jim Webb who didn't stand for reelection.
Not House representatives Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, or its only Muslim member, Keith Ellison. He merely called for both sides to "show restraint."
No one expressed outrage over Israel's planned assault. No one cared that relentless terror bombing and shelling killed or injured hundreds of innocent Palestinian men, women, children, infants and the elderly.
No one expressed angst about lost lives. Wives lost husbands. Husbands lost wives. Parents lost children. They lost siblings. Friends lost neighbors. Communities were turned upside down. Some may never recover. Others will take years.
No one asked why they were deliberately targeted. No one thought about whether gravely injured ones will survive. No one wondered how maimed for life victims will get by.
No one condemned cold-blooded Israeli slaughter and mass destruction. No one asked how Palestinians survive under siege. No one cares if they live or die.
Only Israeli rights matter. Palestinians are contemptuously scorned. Muslims are demonized for not being Jews. They're human beings, not "terrorists," "crazed Arabs," or "jihadists."
Edward Said deplored "special status" rights afforded Jews "at the expense of the other." He denounced "Sharonian evil." He'd say the same thing about Netanyahu.
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