I stand with Amira Haas and Uri Avnery and thousands of other Israeli Jews who spoke out and marched in Israel against the invasion of Lebanon. I stand with Jews in New York, San Francisco, and other cities who publicly demonstrated against the invasion. I write this letter as a non-Zionist Jew who has been an activist against war and racism for the past 40 years. "Israel’s Quest for Peace", the letter from the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater (Free Speech, August 29), is an unfortunate attempt to defend the indefensible: Israel’s assault in Lebanon; Israel’s decades long occupation of Palestinian lands; and the U.S./Israeli aggressive wars launched under the propaganda smokescreen of the "war on terror" to control the Middle East. The letter ignores inconvenient and indisputable facts and repeatedly distorts history. The letter appeals to the same myths and falsehoods that U.S. politicians have used to manipulate us into accepting their invasion of Iraq and the horrific war crimes that have been its inevitable result. Worse still, the letter attempts to exonerate Israeli and U.S. leaders of all war crimes and crimes against humanity by invoking the morally bankrupt argument that Arabs are responsible for "forcing us to kill their children." (MORE)
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