I Apologize
For America
By Tikyra
Angelique
17 May, 2003
I am an American,
and with all my heart I want to apologize to my Arab and Palestinian
brothers and sisters for the racism and the horrible crimes my country
has committed against them.
Our racism is
evident in our news, our movies, our T.V. programs. All the prophets
of the Torah, the Bible and the Koran were Arab or from the African
country of Egypt - I am disgusted at our blatant racism against you
when white actors and actresses play Jesus, Moses, etc. or our Christmas
cards and Nativity scenes have a white Mary and Joseph. I am also sorry
that every Arab character in T.V. or the movies portrays a terrorist
or someone with a weapon (never as a police officer). I especially want
to apologize for the blatant anti Semitism of our news which calls anyone
resisting Israel's horrible crimes against humanity a "militant",
or "Islamic extremist" or "terrorist" without condemning
the horrific acts of brutal military terrorism Israel's army inflicts
on innocent unarmed civilians everyday, while it totally ignores the
"Jewish extremists" who occupy illegal settlements and commit
horrific crimes such as shooting at workers picking olives on their
own farms, acts of vandalism - breaking windows, looting stores, beating
up innocent unarmed people, and in one case I know - torturing a man
to death for the crime of not being born Jewish.
With all my
heart I want to apologize for the racism and horrific crimes against
humanity America has committed in Lebanon (our ships fired rockets from
offshore causing horrific loss of life and destruction of their cities),
Afghanistan (would it be O.K. to destroy Massachusetts, kill tens of
thousands of innocent unarmed civilians to search for one man so we
could execute him and deny him a trial to prove our allegations against
him?), Guantanamo Bay (where we threw out the Geneva convention and
in the words of one racist soldier "pen them in cages like dogs"
without protection from rain, wind, or cold without toilette facilities
or the privacy to use them in the presence of female soldiers; where
we could torture them, deny their families and lawyers visitation, where
we had military trials to deny them an independent legal council, and
totally deny them any appeals process, in which, Bush said, even if
they were found not guilty, we could continue to imprison them) and
our latest total violation of human rights - the war in Iraq where with
absolute irony we condemned the invasion of one country into another
country's border (America said absolutely nothing about Israel's invasion
of southern Lebanon, the West Bank of Jordan, Sinai of Egypt, and the
invasion and brutal occupation of Palestine).
There were no
weapons of mass destruction, we killed thousands of unarmed civilians
and Iraqi soldiers who were rightfully defending their homeland from
our unprovoked attack) We destroyed hospitals, structures providing
water and electricity etc. Then we had the audacity to destroy Iraq's
currency and replace it with our American dollars so we could control
their economy. And to make the rape complete we destroyed as much of
their country as possible, then steal their oil, to make money for U.S.
to repair (at any over priced cost we wish) the destruction we caused.
Then we allow our soldiers to shoot into an unarmed crowd of protesters,
and now Bush is allowing our soldiers to shoot looters (or anyone they
think is committing a crime) to kill that person in cold blood and deny
him or her a trial. With all my heart I am sorry for the horrific crimes
against humanity my country America is committing and has committed.
Bush did not bring Democracy to Iraq he is imposing Israel's sick twisted
version of Democracy with absolutely no regard for human rights.
With all my
heart I want to apologize to my brothers and sisters in Palestine -
for years the American news made me a mushroom - I was kept in the dark
about the racism and horrific crimes Israel committed and is committing
in Palestine - I am sorry with all my heart for the hundreds of thousands
of your friends and family who were brutally murdered or permanently
maimed or crippled for life by the Apache helicopters, the missiles,
the M-16 machine guns, and all the weapons we gave to Israel to commit
horrific slaughters of unarmed human beings every day in Palestine.
I am sorry for the billions of our dollars that were used by Israel
to perpetuate their Holocaust on you and your loved ones. With all my
heart I am sorry. You are in my heart and in my prayers every day. I
am protesting, handing out flyers, writing email, and praying that God
will punish Israel for their horrific crimes against humanity and return
your homeland to you.
With all my heart I am sorry.
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