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Dump The Israeli And
Palestinian Bushes

By Mike Ghouse

28 December, 2008
Countercurrents.org

The world sympathized with Israel for the rockets they endured in their backyards, but when they do this massacre, they lose sympathy and the oppressed ones all around the world, including the majority of Israelis and Jews will speak up. This is not the act of peace making; this is the evil act of destroying a people.

Edmund Burke had said something to this effect, “Evil flourishes not because of evil men, but because good men do nothing about it “. Indeed, lack of condemnations or protests encourages evil to flourish. The least we can do is speak up and show that we are for the righteousness.

The poor reasoning the Israeli admin is propagting is that they were tired of the rockets. The real cause that led to this situation is the blockade of Gaza where a parent watching her son die for lack of medicine was ignored, it was brutal and inhuman. They were even blocked from seeking Medicine and we did nothing about it. Prior to that we refused to acknowledge an elected Government in Gaza, causing Israel and Hamas to dig in their heels. Mother Teresa had said " if you want to make peace, you talk with your enemies, and not your friends". The Neocons have duped the Israeli and American Administrations not to talk with Hamas. Who will we make peace with then? Thank God we have a President now who will change that equation for the good of the Israeli and Palestinian people. Heck with the money makers, the lobbyisit and the Neocons.

This bombarding is not good for Israel’s psyche and it is not good for us to watch and do nothing about it. We Americans are consistently duped by the media, we are conditioned not even to ask the other point of view and are made to become judgmental beings. We need to know the truth, so we can live with morality.

Peace begins when we recognize our own faults, it takes guts and vision, and when we get it, it would be a solid step towards peace making. There are many Jewish Organizations working for peace, we all need to lend them our support. (I will post their links in the comments section later on)

On Monday or some time next week, the world will witness the stupidity of our administration. The US Ambassador to the UN will say a soft word of condemnation, then Ms. Rice or Bush, will make a statement to the Israeli PM, that our friendship with Israel is solid and that they can ignore the remarks of that Ambassador. Meaning? ‘Keep doing it’, we just have to do the verbal diarrhea to appease the world. This is a guaranteed response from our shameful history. The world will laugh at us again.

Our Middle East policies are dictated by the Lobby and this will do more harm to Israel than Good. The Israelis need to wake up and do what is right for them to have peace in the long run. 60 years have gone by; neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian leadership has produced peace and justice in full, their respective people deserve it. Both sides have a few evil destructive men at the helm.

The revenge mind set is not good to either Israelis or the Palestinians; it deteriorates any possibility of peace. The public needs to elect the people whose focus is peace - and each leader must be asked to look in to the eyes of the children, both Israeli and Palestinian and made to make promises that he or she will work on giving hope and security to both children. Most Israelis and Palestinians will support that; hitherto they were not given that opportunity by the Neocons.

Let’s hope the Israelis and Palestinians will dump their Bushes and elect some one who can at least promise peace and not destruction.

Mike Ghouse is a Speaker, Thinker and a Writer on Pluralism, interfaith, terrorism, peace, interfaith, Islam, Multiculturism and India. He is a frequent guest on talk radio and local television network discussing interfaith, political and civic issues. His comments, news analysis and columns can be found on the Websites and Blogs listed at his personal website www.MikeGhouse.net. Mike is a Dallasite for nearly three decades and Carrollton is his home town. He can be reached at [email protected]

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