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12 Million Reasons to Boycott Israel for What it
Did to 12 Million Palestinians Around the World
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Al-Jazeerah, CCUN,
September 12, 2017
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Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people during the
Israeli terrorist war on Gaza, in August 2014 |
There are 12 million Palestinians in the world. Half of them
are refugees living in camp and in exile. They are not allowed to return
back home and their property. However, under the 1950 Israeli
discriminatory “Law of Return” which grants every Jew, wherever he or
she resides, automatic Israeli citizenship if desired, at the expense of
Palestinian refugees who have lived on the land for generations ( my
late parents included.) But the Law of Return does not give the
same right of return to those Palestinians who were forced by Israel to
leave their homes and property in 1948 and 1967 wars.
Regrettably, Israel-firsters in the US Congress blame Palestinians, and
are now advocating to cut most U.S. humanitarian aid to the Palestinian
Authority until the P.A. stops providing financial assistance to widows
and children of those killed or imprisoned by Israeli forces.
US Congress should first demand of Israel to respect and comply with UN
Security Council Resolution 164 and 242 which gave Israel a seat at the
UN on the condition it allow the refugees the right of return and
ordered Israel to withdraw from occupied Arab land, allow the
Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and pay compensation for
those who do not wish to return. The fact is, the US frequently blocks
any international attempt to force Israel to obey international law,
thus encouraging Israel to further defy UN resolutions Prior to
1948, when Jews were persecuted in Europe, Palestinians welcomed them in
as warmly as Israel now coldly denies Palestinian refugees the right to
return home. The Israeli army and illegal Jewish settlers have
been abusing and killing Palestinian for 70 years with impunity, because
they know that they will not be held accountable for their actions no
matter what the result. They know the US will never cut aid to them if
they murder Palestinians. Shamefully, we haven't either heard a peep
from the Jewish lobby and or of US public officials, even when the
victims were United States citizens or Palestinian American, like Rachel
Corrie, Furkan Dogan, Mahmoud Shaalan, Abdulrahman Barghouti and 14-
year old Orwah Hamad of New Orleans who was shot through the neck and
head. I have read the book of Torah, where it says, "Judaism
stands on three legs: "peace, freedom, and justice." That said, I
believe Israel is neither democratic nor Jewish. It is simply an
evil, and terrorist caliphate just like ISIS, that constitutes a danger
to itself and the rest of the world. The 12 million Palestinians living
under siege in Gaza, under occupation in the West Bank, or as a second
class-citizens living inside Israel, that constitutes 12 million reasons
to boycott Israel. Mahmoud El-Yousseph is a retired USAF
veteran.
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