By Ingrid B. Mork
There was a report on Al-Jazeera of another atrocity committed against the Palestinians: The PA (Palestinian Authority) in the West Bank had plans for 9 plants for the purification of underground aquifers because they are being polluted by waste products but were given permission to build these plants on condition that they purify the water supply to the Jewish settlements as well. The PA built one but the settlements it serviced refused to pay for the service and the tab had to be paid by the Palestinians. As a result, no more purification plants were built, partly because, submitting to Israeli demands for purification of the water supply to the settlements would have given the illegal settlements legitimacy and now the drinking water in the aquifers is seriously polluted.
Obama claims to know about Palestinian suffering and pontificates constantly about a “two-state solution” with Palestinians and Israelis living peacefully, side by side. Personally I have doubts. Palestinians have been subjected to all sorts of humiliation due to the Israeli policies. Most Israelis have been brainwashed into believing that it is their “god-given right” to be superior over the Palestinians in all things and that “anything goes” – theft, murder, humiliation, abuse of children.
Israel has to portray itself as a victim. In this situation, if a miracle were to happen and the Palestinians were given a state of their own, what would Israel do? Who, then, would it bully?
He, Obama, doesn`t give a rat`s ass.. If he did, he would do everything in his power to end the occupation of Palestine instead of lamely bleating about stopping settlement construction. It is a farce, a charade, futile words which ensure that the Zionists/Israelis get all the time they need to encircle Jerusalem and steal that, as they have stolen everything else. Why else would he have boldly declared to AIPAC and the world at large that Jerusalem would be the undisputed capital of Israel?
If Obama had given much of a damn about Palestinian suffering, he would have “made it very clear” to the Israelis from his first day in office, what all concerned citizens, in all the countries of the world have been demanding: an end to the occupation of Palestine. However, Obama is president of a country whose government also believes it has a “god-given right” to shape the world. So many people have died, so many made homeless, so many going hungry, even in the US, and for what?
I don’t know if it does any good e-mailing these people. I e-mailed the Israeli government last year. I do not remember it properly why I e-mailed. I think Scottish PSC were urging people to do so for some reason. I didn’t receive a reply then but months later they sent me an e-mail with propaganda and lies, I replied to that with two words- “BULL SHIT”
(Submitted by Ingrid B. Mork)