Who’d a thunk. While children are in delight at Disney World, children in Gaza are being killed by Hellfire missiles made a few miles away, courtesy of the Florida Congressional delegation (including Senate candidate Kendrick Meek) and, as soon as he can get his thumb on the Senate electronic voting lever, Dan “Israel Can Do No Wrong” Gelber.
A just-out report by Amnesty International documents that Israeli forces used white phosphorus and other weapons supplied by the USA, such as an AGM 114 Hellfire missile made by Hellfire Systems of Orlando (wonderful corporate name, huh?) which killed three paramedics and a child, to carry out serious violations of international humanitarian law including war crimes. The attacks resulted in the death of hundreds of children and other civilians and destroyed homes on a massive scale. The Israeli aggression, which Bill Moyers has called “state terror”, killed 1300 Gazans in response to Palestinian rocket attacks in Israel which killed 7 Israelis over the past four years, attacks which were in response to the Israeli blockade of Gaza over the past 20 months and its continued building of settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
The report also accuses Hamas of war crimes for firing rockets into civilian areas of Israel and calls for a comprehensive arms embargo of both Israel and Hamas.
The Mark Weaver Show is looking for an activist to research the campaign contributions of Hellfire Systems executives and give an on-air report. We need to know if Hellfire has given contributions to Meek and Gelber and to monitor Meek and Gelber’s campaign contributions from armament companies for their Senate campaigns. You can email mwshow@bellsouth.net.
Regardless, Meek and Gelber must be stopped from getting the Democratic Senate nomination. The Democratic Party must stop offering up Republican war clones on foreign policy issues. We need a candidate who will at least signal some desire to put the brakes on the over-arming of Israel and its military aggressions against its neighbors, not to mention the entire militaristic Imperial foreign policy of the U.S.
If you have not already seen this, you can read the full text of Meek and Gelber’s justifying statements on Israel’s “incursions” on my previous posts on this issue in January. Just look up Mark Weaver posts.
Have a nice day. I’m not.
Check out the link. It’s about drafting Matt Damon to run for Senate.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/20/15515/7371/854/699861
Who *is* your candidate for Senate, Mark?
This anti-Semitic dribble is so filled with false assumptions they choak it. Israel is a sovereign country being attacked in violation of International Law by terrorists. Whether or not Israeli Troops “overreacted” or were just plain “stupid” and that caused casualties higher than would have been case, is a MINOR ISSUE, the MAJOR ISSUE is terrorist attacks. Human Rights Watch, like Amnesty International were founded by self-hating Jews who accepted Communism or Hard Left politics instead of their parents’ Faith. The heads of both groups have long records of personal anti-Semitism well before getting involved with the Human Rights Issues. Furthermore the US board of Amnesty International is actually a collection of FOREIGNERS from countries with ANTI-SEMITIC HISTORIES and college students and a bunch of self-employed agitators with no background in law, history, or anything else. It’s one thing to complain rich people have too much money or wars are bad or killing people should stop, but it’s entirely another thing to attack the JEWISH STATE while turning your back on political murders in all the LEFT WING SOCIETIES and make minor problems GREAT ISSUES, and GREAT ISSUES footnotes.
Hey Count, I got a better moniker for you, Count Dracula, you bloodsucking ….
We’ve really gotten tired of these disingenuous cheap shots of calling people anti-semitic when they condemn the vicious militaristic policies of a given Israeli administration. Next you’ll be calling us racist for condemning Obama’s escalation of the Afpakistan invasions or his stimulus bill for god’s sake.
We don’t attack the Jewish state, we’re pro-Jewish state. We attack its war policies and the continual illegal settlement expansion on the 22% of the land remaining for the Palestinians of the original 1947 Palestine.
As far as political killings in Leftist countries, I don’t know your specifics, but I will say the reason we are pissed as hell at what Israel does, is because they do it with our tax money. I’d be concerned with other political killings on my dime also, particularly at the level of 1300 in Gaza or 1000 in Lebanon in 2006.
But welcome to the FPC Blog, Count. Watch out, dawn is coming!