As the Palestinian people in Gaza are being murdered and starved on daily basis, the Western people and their governments continue to cover-up Israeli war crimes. In the West, the creation of the "Jewish state" by usurping Palestinian rights is their way of telling Jews around the world: We are sorry for practicing anti-Semitism against you for centuries, and to compensate for the many Holocausts we have committed against you, we shall unquestionably support the creation of the "Jewish state". And if that happens on the expense of the Palestinian people, let it be. It should be noted that the Palestinian people still own 94% of Palestine, and since 1948 the most basic of their political and economical rights have been suppressed. The right to defend anybody's home is one of the most basic of human rights, however, when a Palestinian defends his home, he becomes a "terrorist" automatically and any Israeli retaliation is justified. In the Western media, a Palestinian has one and only one right: to die silently.

Here in the United States, American children are taught early on that it was necessary to drop nuclear weapons on Japanese civilians in order to save American lives and end WWII. Similarly, many Americans see such an action appropriate because they were attacked in Pearl Harbor. On the other hand, a Palestinian has no right to defend his home which has been looted by persecuted European Jews; and if he does, then he is the terrorist!

In that respect, I like to remind Israelis and Westerners of what Moshe Dayan stated at the funeral of an Israeli farmer killed by a Palestinian in 1956:

". . . Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

We should demand his blood not from the [Palestinian] Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. . . . Let us make our reckoning today. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. . . . Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood." (Iron Wall, p. 101)

The Palestinian people have a simple message to the Western people who have protected and justified Israeli war crimes for decades:

We do not wish to be crossed for what you have sinned against your Jewish citizens; we do not wish to be your Messiah. We do not ask for your sympathy nor your money; we ask for the most basics of human rights. Replacing your crimes (which you have committed against your Jewish citizens) with other crimes will bring neither peace nor prosperity. Make no mistake about it: you are complicit in this crime and history will not forgive.

Our DATE is 59 years LATE, we shall return.
Sincerely,

Abu al-Sous (Salah Mansour)
Chicago - USA
http://PalestineRemembered.com