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TITLE: Elie Wiesel Advocates Denial of Right to Return |
AUTHOR: Susan Abulhawa |
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DATE: January 26, 2001 |
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How ironic that Elie Wiesel, perhaps the most famous Holocaust survivor, advocates the denial of basic human rights to an entire people because they are not the right kind of human. Over and over in his article (1/25/01) he spews pathetic zionist propaganda, like describing Palestinians as "their faces twisted with hate." Does Wiesel think it is love that makes israeli soldiers kill Palestinian children? Or is it love that makes them demolish Palestinian homes? It must be all the love in Israel's heart that oppresses the Palestinians and forces them into economic servitude. Enough with the victim act. It doesn't mesh with reality that is currently swimming in Palestinian blood. The right of return is a right. let me say that again. It is a basic human right guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rhetoric that Israel would be committing "national suicide" by taking responsibility for her crimes echoes the South before the Civil War. They too said freeing the slaves would be suicide to their collective identity. In the sixties the same bigoted rhetoric was repeated to oppose integration of our schools. They said allowing African Americans in white schools would corrode families and values. Israel is a colonizing imperialist power whose stated goals are to rid as much of the land of its native sons, the Palestinians. If Israel truly wants peace, she should start by atoning for her heinous sins against the Palestinians. While Jerusalem is holy to Jews, it is also holy to Muslims and Christians. It is the religion that has the claim. The only people who have claims are not necessarily the ones following any of those religions. Instead, they are the people with property deeds and homes built by their ancestors. They are the Palestinians, be they Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Armenian, Greek, etc. It is not acceptable to ethnically cleans the city simply because Israel wants it to become Jewish. Susan Abulhawa Associate Research Scientist Department of Neuroscience Wyeth-Ayerst Research 865 Ridge Road Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852 tel: (732) 274-4108 END |