This latest conflict in the middle east made me to write you this. When it comes to Israel and it’s policies toward Arabs, one thing is worth mentioning is “The Collective Punishment”. We all remember what the Israeli army did in Beirut in 2006. If they thought there might be a Hezbollah commander in a building, they would bomb the whole building, the heck with hundreds of innocent resident of that building, after all to the Israeli media they are simply”COLLATERAL DAMAGE”. How many times throughout the history american citizens have been killed or held hostage in hostile countries? Did we go and bomb their entire buildings thinking that our enemies might be in them? How many times our forces in Iraq of Afghanistan have refused to hit a target only out of fear of high civilian casualties? Why do you think in any major conflict with Arabs, the Israelis bar journalist from having access to the area? Because they don’t want their atrocities to be shown to the world. Israel in 1982 invaded a sovereign nation called Lebanon, and yet world stood silent, and when the Lebanese people came together to defend their land against the invader, they were called “Terrorists”.I wonder why we don’t call Russian of French Partisans terrorist. Even though they resorted to so called “Terrorist tactics” by blowing up German trains and supply lines or disrupting their lines of communications, today we call them heroes. I want to know which UN resolution permitted Israel to roll it’s forces across international borders with Lebanon and keep it under occupation for over 18 years, and then call the defenders of Lebanon “Terrorist” simply because they had the guts to resist them and keep their country independent? I want to know how many people actually know anything a Israel atrocities in the villages of Sabra and Shatila? Unfortunately the world has become such that if you criticize Israel you will be called anti Semitic or anti Jew or fanatic this and that. I just hope to see the day that the people of this country and the entire world would punish all Aggression and all Aggressors regardless of any religion. Freedom and independent of their land is the indisputable right of every nation on earth.
