Los Angeles Times editorial that really speaks for itself. Nothing really controversial but note the growing anger from within the US mainstream towards Israeli arrogance. This is only going to get worse:
Why, after all these years, are we still writing about settlements?
This tiresome controversy has been raging ever since Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (along with the Golan Heights and the Sinai peninsula) in the 1967 Middle East War. The first settlement was built in the Golan a month later. That’s four decades ago. Four decades during which the international community has been demanding that Israel step back to the pre-1967 lines, four decades during which Palestinians have called for an end to Israeli efforts to redraw the political map. It’s been 35 years since the first Los Angeles Times editorial on the subject called the settlements an “obstacle to peace.”
At the time that editorial was written in 1975, there were fewer than 5,000 settlers in the West Bank. Today there are nearly 300,000. That doesn’t count those living in the Golan Heights or the 190,000 Israelis who have moved into traditionally Arab East Jerusalem.
Good for the LA Times. More and more of our newspapers are expressing this same opinion about the settlements.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Greenwald posts about the latest disgusting outrage from one of our pathetic representatives:
Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance
Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- the same day when the actual U.S. Secretary of State met with Netanyahu -- and vowed that he and his GOP colleagues would protect and defend Israeli interests against his own Government. According to a statement proudly issued by Cantor's own office:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
Yes I saw the Cantor story and was about to post it today..That's why they're called Israel firsters..Their allegiances are to a foreign country.. and this is well documented now..
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post I'll put it up it too today...
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