Agreement on American culpability in Israeli-Palestinian war
The Washington Note, a blog by Steve Clemons, brings up the same point I brought up this morning:
Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas exiled in Damascus, has another opinion piece out, this one, naturally, regarding the Israeli incursion into Gaza.
“American bombs, American planes, and American idleness, all lead rage in the Muslim world to be directed at the far enemy in addition to Israel. As Lawrence Wright often remarks, “if the Israeli-Palestinian crisis were resolved tomorrow,” bin Laden “would be heartbroken.” The conflict remains his bread and butter.It’s difficult to think about this bitter fight without pondering the role of American war machines, and thus the American military complex.
Later, in the article in the LA Times today, Mazook echoes my view that we need to BE with the people who are suffering after effects of our bombs and planes:
No American leader has ever visited a Palestinian refugee camp anywhere, much less in Gaza — a startling fact, considering the central role America has played in our people’s narrative. None has dared to look our refugees in their faces and experience their suffering directly.
This Israeli-Palestinian war is so ugly. There is little humanity in the anger between sides.
- I suggest Israeli soldiers and politicians live in Gaza for a month, before they put their uniforms on or show up to work in their government offices.
- I suggest that Hamas soldiers work in Israeli hospitals, giving care to civilians wounded by their rockets.
- I suggest that US leaders do both.
Someone has to have the balls to call this war over and enforce peace, for the benefit of generations of Palestinian and Israeli children, who deserve to grow up without the fear that they, their families and their homes will be bombed to bloody smithereens.
And, since many of the weapons being tossed about have the imprint of the US military industrial complex, their blood is on our hands.
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