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'Tail Wagging the Dog'
RECEIVED Tue., June 8, 2010
Dear Editor,
Has anyone read about the Warsaw ghetto in World War II? It was the Nazi blockade of a section of Warsaw, Poland, in which European Jews were trapped, starved, and eventually murdered. Has the Israeli blockade of Gaza borrowed from history? Not to say that Israel is a Nazi state. It is, after all, a theocracy where citizenship requires being Jewish. Do other countries have such religious/ethnic requirements for citizenship? Recently, an 89-year-old reporter was condemned by our White House for criticizing the illegal occupation of Palestine, while not a word was said about the murder of nine activists attempting to bring food, medical supplies, and the like to the Gaza ghetto. Is such a public position in the international interests of the U.S.?
Does the old cliché of the “tail wagging the (big) dog” apply?
Has anyone read about the Warsaw ghetto in World War II? It was the Nazi blockade of a section of Warsaw, Poland, in which European Jews were trapped, starved, and eventually murdered. Has the Israeli blockade of Gaza borrowed from history? Not to say that Israel is a Nazi state. It is, after all, a theocracy where citizenship requires being Jewish. Do other countries have such religious/ethnic requirements for citizenship? Recently, an 89-year-old reporter was condemned by our White House for criticizing the illegal occupation of Palestine, while not a word was said about the murder of nine activists attempting to bring food, medical supplies, and the like to the Gaza ghetto. Is such a public position in the international interests of the U.S.?
Does the old cliché of the “tail wagging the (big) dog” apply?
John Callaghan
