The reason that I am sending this article is that this administration, along with U.S media sources, frequently discuss arms proliferation and its consequences around the world.  And yet stories such as this one, which shed light on Israel's role in this dilemma, are left out or U.S news reports.  We (the U.S) cannot continue to present ourselves (in good conscience) as leaders in the fight against uncontrolled distribution of weapons if we are going to continue to not only continue arming Israel, but also turn a blind eye toward the incidents such as these as well as its nuclear weapons programs.

 

Tim Stinson

Miami, Florida

 

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a light bulb?

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a light bulb?

The Answer is SEVEN: 1. one to deny that a light bulb needs to be replaced

2. one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the light bulb,

3. one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new light bulb,

4. one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs,

5. one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a light bulb,

6. one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the light bulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag,

7. and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

Mazen Nicolas Manasseh

 

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Poor American Taxpayers

 

First, American Taxpayers have to support the Zionist project over the last four decades or so, by building illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian lands in the 1967-Occupied Palestinian Territories.

And now the same poor American Taxpayers, millions of whom work very hard for big corporations, gaining minimum wages just to pay the bills for necessities and to put bread on the table for their children, have to pay again to compensate those settlers, in order to be evacuated from those settlements built illegally in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, occupied in 1967.

Poor American Taxpayers have to pay for the third time to build for those who may be evacuated from Occupied Gaza new settlements built again illegally on stolen Palestinian lands in the Occupied West Bank.

Later on, the same poor American Taxpayers have to pay for the same settlers, for the fourth time, in order to evacuate them from the Occupied West Bank. And for the fifth time, the same poor American Taxpayers have to pay for the same settlers, in order to build for them new settlements somewhere on other occupied/stolen land.

I really wonder how Americans accept that !!

American Taxpayers need to make their representatives and government very accountable for every cent spent on supporting the Apartheid, racist, terrorist state of Israel, which has been founded at the expense of the suffering and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of the Holy Land - the Palestinian people.

Hilmi Salem

 

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).