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RE: Held at Gunpoint—Palestinian terror destroys Israeli lives
Wednesday 14 May @ 12:44:04 |
 John Reese and Flo Razowsky’s reports on Palestine fail to mention that the two suicide bombers who murdered three and wounded 39 others in Tel Aviv on
April 30 shared a tea with International Solidarity Movement (ISM) members before carrying out their horrific deeds. Although ISM claims these terrorists were not members of their organization, ISM provided the cover for them to enter Israel and murder Israelis.
I applaud the Israelis for banning ISM. It’s unfortunate when freedoms are curtailed, but how many more Rachel Corrie’s have to die or be seriously wounded for cheap media coverage? It’s preposterous to send these young people into a war zone. Modeled after the unarmed Veterans Peace Walk on the Nicaraguan border, which I among others supported and promoted, ISM is nothing of the sort. Participants in the Central American peace action were almost all veterans, trained militarily, seasoned in years and by combat—not young kids with their heads full of half-baked ideals and hearts looking for a cause who naively sip tea with terrorists. While ISM member Razowky, in her own nana-land of rationale, claims they’re just walking little children to school—the reality is they’re aiding and abetting terrorists.
But that doesn’t bother ISM do-gooders like Razowsky who writes of staying the night with a poor Palestinian family she has just met to shield them from Israel’s defense forces who keep returning to the home because the son of the family is wanted. Wanted for what? We don’t know. Planning a bombing, perhaps? Murdering Jewish families in their beds? Who knows? But by Razowky’s account, the Israelis are seemingly unjust and the family’s son presumed innocent, and even if he’s not, she’s enlisted in the cause right or wrong.
And so has Reese, so much so that in his discussion of environmental war damage in the contested lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, he just happens to slip in a little something about “depleted uranium shells” which doesn’t even pertain to the Israeli-Arab conflict but rather to Gulf War I. As to the construction of the barricade separating Israelis from Palestinians which he refers to as the “apartheid wall,” come on… that wall was necessitated by acts of Palestinian terror and is no more segregationist than a home security alarm system in a South Minneapolis neighborhood. The peace movement loses credibility when it presents only some of the facts and invents and distorts others.
In martyizing Rachel Corrie who was cruelly killed earlier this year while trying to prevent a Palestinian home demolition, what these people and the Pulse don’t tell you is that that home and others were used to hide underground tunnels to smuggle weapons into Israel to murder children, women and men whose only crime is to be Israeli (Jewish).
ISM is not a peace movement. Knowingly or unknowingly they are helping one people to kill another.
In a press photo before Rachel Corrie’s death, she is shown holding a burning semblance of the American flag above the heads of those 5-, 6- and 7-year-old Palestinian children (they have come to protect)—her face contorted in a rageful scream. ISM isn’t promoting peace, but anger and hate—both in the Middle East and here at home.
It is good Razowsky was apprehended last week and faces deportation from Israel. We need no more martyrs. Causes should not be sustained on the broken bodies of our young people, and the elders of the peace community should know better than to encourage such behavior. But this next issue of Pulse will likely feature Razowsky’s escapades in an Israeli jail accompanied by a listing of upcoming speaking engagements sponsored by local peace and church groups.
Sadly the local “peace” community which touts itself on open-mindedness is closed to learning perspectives and facts that may differ from their own prejudicial views. Unfortunately such bias results in only getting half the picture. Even the Pulse promotes Reese and Razowsky’s reports with a full-cover photo of a young Israeli soldier rounding up the usual suspects, when a more timely photo might have been that of the carnage in Tel Aviv wrought that week by ISM’s tea drinking companions.
Cheryl Fields
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