When a 'Custodian of Freedom' Is the Perpetrator of Ethnic Cleansing

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These immoral, illegal and inhumane crimes perpetrated by Israeli forces against the Palestinians on a daily basis prompted flan Pappe, the Israeli historian from Haifa university (who was later virtually expelled, and is now a professor at Exeter University, England) to say "I don't think there is one moral person in the world who supports what Israel stands for," (Yedioth Ahranot, March 16, 2008). I am sure the Australian Parliament, which lauded Israel and congratulated it on its 60th anniversary, is aware that the president of the Palestinian Parliament, Aziz al Douek, and 15 of his colleagues who were democratically elected in elections described by former President Jimmy Carter as democratic and transparent, have been imprisoned and tortured in Israeli jails for the last two years. Yet no parliament in the world has put forward a motion demanding their release or threatened to boycott their jailors (the Israelis) if they do not release them. This moral support given to the racist, criminal policies of Israel against the Arabs is, partly responsible for the crimes perpetrated.

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When a 'Custodian of Freedom' Is the Perpetrator of Ethnic Cleansing

A few weeks after newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, apologized to the Aborigines, the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, Rudd was party to a motion in Parliament describing Israel as a "robust democracy" and a...

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