Posted on 08/06/2014 2:29:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The blatant partiality of the United States in favor of Israel has already turned the words “peace process” into a bitter joke. Over many decades, American indulgence of Israel has blighted prospects of any resolution of the conflict with the Palestinians. Consequently, occupation has been entrenched and Israeli colonization of the West Bank and East Jerusalem has metastasized, going from under 200,000 illegal settlers in 1991 to over 600,000 today.
This partiality only increases when Israel goes to war. By guaranteeing Israel impunity in its military actions, the United States has contributed massively to the bloodshed in Gaza in recent years and in Lebanon in 2006. With $3.1 billion in military aid annually, Israel already has overwhelming superiority in firepower, thanks to top-of-the-line U.S. weapons, such as F-16 fighter-bombers, Apache helicopters and Patriot missiles. Beyond this, it enjoys U.S. intelligence support, as is shown by the latest revelation in the Edward Snowden documents of high-level cooperation between U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies against “Palestinian terrorism,” U.S. arms resupply during battle (spare parts for missiles and 120-millimeter mortar rounds and 40-millimeter grenades were delivered immediately last week) and wall-to-wall diplomatic backing, such that the Security Council has been virtually immobilized for weeks.
The United States is so closely aligned with Israel as to be effectively a co-belligerent. It is thus not fit to serve as a peacemaker....
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Professor Rashid Khalidi hates the Jews - how shocking.
“There was no inherent skepticism and dispassionate study anymore.”
Students are not encouraged to think for themselves. I heard yesterday that the new College Board Advanced Placement high school curriculum for American History reads like a Marxist propaganda piece. The only word about WWII is the claim that bombing Japan was wrong, not a word about Abraham Lincoln. The curriculum that they’ve come up with is a scandalous hatchet piece focusing on accusations of colonialism, slavery, and racism and mass murder. This is what the teachers of the brightest students will be taught, unless their local school district and/or state says “No thanks.” It’s been reported that Texas has said “No thanks.”
Even if a state government says “no thanks” it will leak in because there are so many leftist teachers and the NEA is everywhere. Are those legislatures going to monitor the classrooms?
Civilized people vs barbarian savages
I know what side I’m going to support
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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