April 7
GUEST: Abderrahmane Amor, human rights activist, journalist, political commentator, and media director of AMP (American Muslims for Palestine), talks about the campaign to bring the plight of the Palestinians into public awareness.
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For seventy years the Palestinians have been under the boot of the Israeli apartheid state. The resistance to Zionism in the US came very slowly. The Israel Lobby, like other fascist movements, became very adept at buying and using power in our nation's capital. Truman won his race for president on Lobby money, and it has only gotten more corrupt since then. Trump was paid a million dollars for his promises to locate the US embassy in Jerusalem, and to recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel. In fact, the Israel Lobby gives lots of money to almost all members of Congress, as long as they promise to look the other way as more Palestinians are shot and homes demolished.
Our own member of Congress, Rep Antonio Delgado rakes in well over $30,000 per year as long as he never says the word Palestine. How corrupt is that! In return, he travels to Israel (paid for by the Lobby), and refuses to meet with our local Palestinian rights group. He is one of those PEPs, or progressive except for Palestine. Bought off by money, he represents what is so rotten about our political system.
Of course, he is the same way about the Green New Deal, Universal Healthcare, universal rights for children, and most every other progressive reforms. Delgado always "has a plan" for that, a way to obscure the fact that he is little more than a Wall Street stooge.
So what is rotten in the Middle East depends on what is rotten in our nation's capital. If some day we can free ourselves from this kleptocracy, there will be hope for Palestine. Until then, the empire will continue to form alliances with the very worst of the fascist oppressors on the planet.
