| It's past time to stop arming, aiding Israel |
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| Written by Administrator |
| Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:20 |
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{mosimage} January 14, 2009 Ten days into the new year, 12 people had already lost their lives to violence on the streets of Baltimore.
By contrast, according to figures on the Israeli Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Web site, it took from mid-July 2005 until the end of December
2008 - 3 1/2 years - before the same number of civilians in Israel were
killed by rockets, mortars and sniper fire from Gaza. Israel could not continue on this course without the arms and dollars it gets from the United States. It is long past time for the U.S. to stop arming Israel and instead to support a cease-fire, an end to the blockade of Gaza and the implementation of the many U.N. resolutions that establish the rights of the citizens of Israel, the original Palestinian inhabitants of land now part of Israel, and the Palestinian inhabitants of the occupied territories. Winifred De Palma, Baltimore |