Whine, whine, whine | Daily News Tribune | GHS | Fri May 04, 2007, 12:39 AM EDT
Letter: U.S. foreign policy lacks balance

Note: This is a letter I wrote to the Daily News Trib, (Newton-Waltham, MA, USA) after reading three days of complaints about Noam Chomsky's appearance at Newton South HS.
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So Abe Menzin is "profoundly disappointed and insulted" by the invitation of Noam Chomsky to speak to the students at Newton South.

Why do most American Jews insist on stifling open debate on any issue in the Middle East? This isn't even the case among Jews in Israel, where it seems free speech does indeed exist. But just try exercising your free speech here in the U.S. regarding our one-sided support of Israel. With lightning speed, you'll be labeled "anti-Semitic" or "Jew hater." Just ask Jimmy Carter or Noam Chomsky.

It's a clever tactic used very effectively by the Israeli Lobby because they don't want the American people to know the shameful, simple truth: We are hated all over the world because of our one-sided and unfair support of Israel.

Israel accomplishes this through their de facto political action committee, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC). They claim it is not a political action committee, but, all the pols know it is in fact an illegal political action committee, because it represents a foreign government. In Washington, where money reigns supreme, the pols just give a little wink while they take Israeli money and follow Israeli orders.

Sadly for the U.S., this policy has done nothing but breed hate for us, and justifiably so.

The U.S. insisted on democratic elections in Palestine and one was held. Hamas won a majority, but this was not the outcome Israel wanted, so they led America by the nose in denouncing the election and withholding funds from the Palestinian people. We're now engaged in a systematic program to bring down a freely elected government.

When Israel was at war with Lebanon, they were running out of U.S. made bombs. America responded by producing bombs on a "fast track," 24 hour a day schedule so Israel could have an uninterrupted stream of bombs to drop on innocent Lebanese civilians.

The world knows we provide Israel with jet fighters, tanks, bombs and billions in foreign aid while the Arabs throw rocks.

This is war that cannot be won on a battlefield. Write to your congressman and senators, tell them it is time we have a sane and balanced foreign policy with one goal: A negotiated peace in the Middle East.

JOHN SAVARESE, Waltham, MA, USA
- posted by Editor @ 4:49 PM