Thursday, July 23, 2009
Here's how "Jewish" Voice for Peace fundraises:
I just got back from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. I saw it with my own eyes- the system of occupation is stronger than ever.
In places like the south of Hebron and East Jerusalem, I saw Palestinian land being taken daily through an insidious collaboration between violent settlers, the military, and the Israeli government bureaucracy.
The government regularly appropriates land for what it calls "sterile zones." This means no Palestinians allowed. Instead, families are driven from their lands and forced to live in smaller and smaller areas.
There's no other way to put it. This is ethnic cleansing. Because it's happening now, and not just in the distant past, we still can stop it. Especially today when the world's attention is on settlements, and for the first time in recent memory, a US administration is creating pressure on Israel.
But we need your financial help to do it...[snip, etc...]
Cecilie Surasky
Deputy Director
Jewish Voice for Peace
It's shocking to read this kind of language from a group with the word "Jewish" in its name isn't it? Even if you are naive enough to buy their cover that they're collecting just to oppose "the occupation," that dog just won't hunt for long. Most recently they've been shilling for the ISM at the SF Jewish Film Festival.
I'd also say Surasky isn't paying attention, what with outside observers noting how normal life in the West Bank is looking these days, the construction of a luxury mall in Jenin, and even Abbas admitting that he can wait for a peace settlement since, "we have a good reality . . . the people are living a normal life," the "peace" industry must be really worried. If an Arab doesn't blow up something soon (God forbid), Cecilie Surasky may just lose her meal ticket.
Of course, one of the main reasons that things are able to "normalize" as much as they have is the West Bank security fence, which has prevented the terrorists from controlling the situation as they had in the past.
Thank the fence.
