The day will come when people will look back on us and wonder how in the world we managed to ignore the pain in occupied Palestine.
Our media has failed totally in its responsibility to inform us of the true situation, but in the age of the internet, that excuse seems a little lame.
In the words of Capt Ward Boston, USN (Ret) :
"It was his visit to Israel some years back that clinched it for this man in terms of his feelings for the ‘great experiment’ in Jewish self-rule. ‘The way they treat the Arabs…it’s unconscionable’ he said. ‘You go into Israel, into the only places where they allow the tourists, and it’s the picture of paradise, just as the Soviets used to do. Then you take a detour off the approved itinerary and you see what it is really like…The poverty, misery, abuse. Arab kids being gunned down in broad daylight. It’s worse than South Africa. Only a person with ice water in his veins could see the way the Arabs are treated and not be outraged’.
Capt Ward Boston was the senior legal council for the Naval Board of Inquiry concerning the June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli Air and Naval forces that resulted in 34 Americans killed and 171 wounded.
Read that story here.
Well, gotta go. EURO 2008 match coming on soon.
Our media has failed totally in its responsibility to inform us of the true situation, but in the age of the internet, that excuse seems a little lame.
In the words of Capt Ward Boston, USN (Ret) :
"It was his visit to Israel some years back that clinched it for this man in terms of his feelings for the ‘great experiment’ in Jewish self-rule. ‘The way they treat the Arabs…it’s unconscionable’ he said. ‘You go into Israel, into the only places where they allow the tourists, and it’s the picture of paradise, just as the Soviets used to do. Then you take a detour off the approved itinerary and you see what it is really like…The poverty, misery, abuse. Arab kids being gunned down in broad daylight. It’s worse than South Africa. Only a person with ice water in his veins could see the way the Arabs are treated and not be outraged’.
Capt Ward Boston was the senior legal council for the Naval Board of Inquiry concerning the June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli Air and Naval forces that resulted in 34 Americans killed and 171 wounded.
Read that story here.
Well, gotta go. EURO 2008 match coming on soon.
