US Told Not to Vote for Gaza Resolution By Israel

What a sad decline in the history of a people! As a young person growing up in India, like so many others I too had the deepest sympathy for the ghastly inhumanity of the Nazi regime against Jews in the 1930s and '40s. I read Anne Frank's diary many times, and wept. I held up the names of Albert Einstein and Yehudi Menuhin as examples of the exalted mind of the Jewish people.

What a contrast- what a tragic lesson I have learned in the past 25+ years, while living in the U.S. Without the slightest doubt, Anne Frank would be horrified by the actions of the government of Israel, purportedly to safeguard Jewish interests- by performing ethnic cleansing and inflicting the cruelest forms of apartheid upon another helpless people. The comparisons with Nazi Germany are striking, and much too numerous to list. This shames us all as human beings. It makes one wonder, indeed, how such atrocities can happen. How the formerly tormented become tormentors themselves. Much like the Nazis, these rogues demonize their victims routinely, and render their human rights useless. But history teaches us this happens all the time. History will record the Israeli/American crimes against the people of Palestine as the Arab Holocaust; and indeed the status of the population in today's Gaza is that of prisoners in a concentration camp. Bravo, Israel! You have certainly done yourself proud.

I salute, of course, Israeli peacemakers such as Uri Avnery and others (such as Norman Finkelstein), who dare stand up against the grotesque crimes of their government. But theirs, like so many in the U.S., are voices in the wilderness.

The greatest tragedy is that a country with great military might (but little moral standing, especially in the post WWII period) is allied with Israel in repeatedly ignoring world opinion, world pleas for humanity and justice, and enabling unspeakable crimes. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln, like his counterpart Anne Frank, would be horrified by the actions of the U.S. in the past 100 years (with few exceptions). And particularly those by the R-party- the party of racists, profiteers, hypocrites, rogues, virulent warmongers, organized killers, and out-and-out criminals. This is the essential heritage and legacy of the Reagan era- international gangsterism and national free-for-all for the rich and powerful.

Monish