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Lift the Siege of Gaza
by Pat Buchanan
In June 1948, our wartime ally imposed a blockade on
Berlin, cutting off and condemning to death or Stalinist
domination 2 million Germans, most of whom, not long
before, had cheered Adolf Hitler.
Harry Truman responded with the Berlin airlift, in perhaps
the most magnanimous act of the Cold War.
For nine months, U.S. pilots flew into Tempelhof, carrying
everything from candy to coal, saving a city and earning
the eternal gratitude of the people of Berlin, and
admiration everywhere that moral courage is admired.
That was an America that lived its values.
And today, President Obama should end his and his country's
shameful silence over the inhumane blockade of Gaza that
is denying 1.5 million beleaguered people the basic
necessities of a decent life.
Time to start acting like America again.
That bloody debacle in the Eastern Mediterranean last
Sunday was an inevitable result of Israel doing what it
always seems to do: going beyond what is essential to her
security, to impose collective punishment upon any and all
it regards as hostile to Israel.
Israel claims, and film confirms, that its commandos
rappelling down onto the Turkish ship were attacked with
sticks and metal rods. One was tossed off a deck, another
tossed overboard into a lifeboat.
But that 2 a.m. boarding of an unarmed ship with an unarmed
crew, carrying no munitions or weapons, 65 miles at sea,
was an act of piracy. What the Israeli commandos got is
what any armed hijacker should expect who tries to steal
a car from a driver who keeps a tire iron under the front
seat.
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And the response of these highly trained naval commandos
to the resistance they encountered? They shot and killed
nine passengers, and wounded many more.
But we have a blockade of Gaza, say the Israelis, and this
flotilla was a provocation. Indeed, it was. And Selma was
a provocation. The marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge were
disobeying orders of the governor of Alabama and state
police not to march.
Yet, today, liberal Democrats who regard Martin Luther
King as a moral hero for championing nonviolent civil
disobedience to protest injustice are cheering not the
unarmed passengers trying to break the Gaza blockade,
but the Israelis enforcing the blockade.
Where were these fellows when "Bull" Connor really needed
them?
Comes the retort: Israel is a friend and ally, and we
stand with our friends.
But is not Turkey a friend and ally of 50 years, whose
soldiers died alongside ours in Korea and who accepted
Jupiter missiles targeted on Russia, even before the Cuban
missile crisis? Was it not Turkey whose citizens were
wounded and killed in the bloody debacle?
Why are we not at least even-handed between our friends?
On the trip to Israel where he was blindsided by news
that Israel would build 1,600 new housing units in
East Jerusalem, Joe Biden told Shimon Peres, "There is
absolutely no space between the United States and Israel
when it comes to Israel's security."
And that is the problem.
America is a superpower with interests in an Arab world
of 300 million and an Islamic world of 1.5 billion --
interests Israel treats with indifference if not contempt
when it comes to doing what she regards as necessary for
her security.
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While Israel had a right to build a wall to protect her
people from terror attack, did she have a right to build
it on Palestinian land?
While Israel had a right to go after Hezbollah when her
soldiers were shot on the border and several kidnapped,
did Israel have a right to conduct a five-week bombing
campaign that smashed Lebanon, killing hundreds of
civilians and creating upward of a million refugees?
While Israel had a right to go into Gaza to stop the
firing of crude rockets on Sderot, did she have a right
to smash utilities and public buildings and kill 1,400
people, most of them civilians?
Is whatever Israel decides to do in the name of her
security fine with us, because there is "absolutely no
space" between our interests and hers, our values and
Israel's values?
Even with Winston Churchill's Britain, there was "space"
between us on strategic goals and national policies.
Israel has a right to secure Gaza to deny Hamas access to
weapons, especially rockets that could reach Israel. But
that does not justify denying 1.5 million people what they
need to live in decency.
According to The Washington Post, "80 percent of the
population (of Gaza) depends on charity. Hospitals,
schools, electricity systems and sewage treatment
facilities are all in deep disrepair."
With our silence, we support this. And we wonder why they
hate us.
Obama should tell the Israelis that Joe got it wrong. There
is space between us. The Gaza siege must end. And America
will herself be sending aid, but will also support Israel's
right to inspect trucks and ships to see to it no weapons
get through to Gaza.
Let's start behaving like who we once were.
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