Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally,
Re: Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Compassionate people are rightly concerned about rocket attacks on the people of southern Israel. It is a valid fear that the Israeli government plays upon just as our government played on our fears after the attacks of 9-11. On the matter of this humanitarian aid flotilla, if Israel wanted to verify that no weapons were headed to Gaza they could have relied on cooperation with their ally Turkey instead of aggression on unarmed people.
The government of Israel needs the conflict with Gaza. Rockets from Gaza validate settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Just so the actions of a few Saudis were used to justify an attack on the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. These confrontations promote the increasingly unsustainable war budgets that are required by capital’s profit driven need to exploit human and natural resources. Israelis have their ‘Greater Israel’ and Americans have our ‘Capitalism,’ now perversely called ‘Freedom’ and or ‘Democracy.’
These rallying cries justify war and divert us from our humanity. Our goal as proponents of peace is to define peace as sustainable co-existence that recognizes rights of others to lives of fulfillment and recognizes that collectively we are dependent upon the natural world.
There is no difference between the overthrow of the democratic governments of Haiti and Honduras, the subjugation of the Palestinian people, and of capital’s savaging of human culture and the natural world.
[http://blog.pdamerica.org/2010/06/voices-raised-in-protest-at-white-house-rally-re-israeli-attack-on-gaza-freedom-flotilla/ ]
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