A.P. photo/ James Crisp -- Capitol Building Rotunda
The Zionist Organization of America rebukes the 54 Members of Congress who petitioned President Obama to pressure Israel to drop its partial blockade of Gaza, and its rebuke raises different points from my original article (to see it, click here ).
The petition states, “We recognize that the Israeli government has imposed restrictions on Gaza out of a legitimate and keenly felt fear of continued terrorist action by Hamas and other militant groups. This concern must be addressed without resulting in the de facto collective punishment of the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip … The current blockade has severely impeded the ability of aid agencies to do their work to relieve suffering.”
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “The ZOA finds it deeply worrying that a group of Congress Members would sign a letter that ignores the genocidal doctrines of Hamas, which controls Gaza and the fact that Hamas has relentlessly assaulted Israel for years, with special intensity after Israel unilaterally withdrew from the area in 2005. It is meaningless and insincere for these Members of Congress to claim that they recognize that Israel has imposed restrictions on well-founded security grounds – then call for the lifting of those restrictions.”
“We also criticize the signatories for their refusal to call Hamas a terrorist group, as is evident from their phrase, ‘Hamas and other militant groups.’ Hamas has not only deliberately murdered hundreds of Jewish men, women and children in scores of suicide bombings and hundreds of shootings and roadside bomb attacks, but its Charter calls for the destruction of Israel (Article 15) and the murder of Jews (Article 7). It expressly justifies its self-declared war on the Jews by reference to the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Article 32). By any reasonable standard, it is a loathsome terrorist group. Shame on these Members of Congress for lacking the moral courage to call terrorists by their name.”
“Under any reasonable definition, Gaza under Hamas is a hostile entity waging war on Israel and Israel is well within its rights – and we would argue, its duty – to impose restrictions upon what goes into Gaza. To suggest that Israel must endanger its people so that Gazans suffer less is morally obtuse and offensive.”
“The Members of Congress would have done better to have urged Hamas to rescind its murderous charter and to renounce terrorism in word and deed. If Hamas did so, the restrictions on supplies entering Gaza would in time cease to be necessary.” (Press release, 2/5.)
The Congress Members’ lip service to Israel’s right to self-defense is a common form of dissembling against Israel. It is inserted so the group could not be said not to recognize Israel’s right to self-defense. But when critics of Israel then urges that Israel be forced not to defend itself by blockade, by targeted assassination, by raids, and by invasion, as they do, they propose giving terrorists a free hand to murder what become defenseless Jews. The critics declare their motive humanitarian. Is it?
The immoral stances by critics of Israel need to be exposed. The press release shows the critics to have a false standard.
(For the prior article on this, click here
Comments
Israel is a racist, criminal pariah apartheid state, founded on ethnic cleansing, mass murder and land theft, and its political and military leaders are war criminals and mass murderers. The Zionist Organization of America is a group of hypocritical people who applaud racism and genocide and misapply the name "anti-semitism" to anyone who dares to tell the truth about the criminal Zionist state. I applaud the 54 members of Congress who had the courage to stand up to Zionist pressure and call for an end to Israel's criminal and immoral blockade of the poor people of Gaza. Zionists like Richard Schulman who applaud Israel's genocide in Gaza deserve our contempt and disgust, as does the racist Zionist organization of America.
palestinians are muslim jihadis who intentionally use their own women and children as human shields while intentionally targeting all women and children as easy targets.
arab muslims throughout the middle east are the most dysfunctional culture and countries on the planet and are tied in last place with africa on all life measures.
arab muslims who are no where near israel suffer the same 50-90% poverty and 50-90% illiteracy. The palis can thank UNRWA for teaching them to read. Other then that, arab muslims are among the most primitive and violent people on the planet.
Throw in their arab muslim tribal customs of 1st cousin marriage, and you have a population that is 50% functionally retarded and full of genetic health issues.
HateJihadis: I suggest that you stick to what bears on politics and omit speculation about mental retardation. If Arabs are retarded, how come their public relations and diplomacy is so superior to Israel's?
NonZionista: Thank you for misspelling my last name, so people won't think you are calling me such unfitting names. Can you present any facts or just epithets? Since when did I applaud genocide? How does a defensive war that took about 1,200 lives out of a 1.5 million constitute genocide? That kind of exaggeration is defamatory if not paranoid. You totally ignore the terrorist aggression, supported by the masses of Gaza, that justifies the partial blockade. So do not lecture someone else about hypocrisy. You do not contribute to the discussion. I left your comment in, so people can see the personal smears that reporters are subjected to.
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