December 21
GUEST: Ahmad Katani,
Palestinian American and human rights activist, describes his
troubled journey from a refugee camp in the West Bank to the
heart of the American Empire, where all the bombs and bullets
are made for Israel's war crimes.
Chris
Hedges on the Death of Israel
How does the "civilized" world deal with one of its own, when that country is committing genocide? When it kills 20,000 people, almost half of them children? Israel's butchery and grotesque war crimes strain the limits of state sanctioned killing. And yet countries like the United States and members of the EU, just look the other way, especially if there is money to be made selling bullets and bombs for the carnage.
Ahmad brings us down to the individual Palestinian who has suffered from Israeli apartheid. We understand what the camps are like, and what the slaughter of refugees means. But to really understand the extent of the carnage, we have to remember the European country that slaughtered six million of its Jews, in an attempt to purge them from their "Master Race." In one of life's most destructive ironies, the very people who were slaughtered by the Third Reich, are now "cleansing" Israel of all those who are not Jewish. The victims of the Holocaust have learned to be the perpetrators.
The failure of the more "civilized" Western nations to stop this second Holocaust reveals the base nature of their centuries old claim. Instead of "never again," we have joined the murderers.
