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Strangling the Messengers: Palestine & the High Price of Truth-Telling
Article/book #: 4838 Title: Strangling the Messengers: Palestine & the High Price of Truth-Telling By: Dennis Bernstein Published in: CovertAction Quarterly, issue 73, page 1 Date of issue: 2002 Topic(s) addressed:
Commentary Abstract: »Israel's defenders have a special vengeance for Jews who don't fall in line behind Sharon's scorched earth policy because they give the lie to the charge that Israel's critics are simply anti-Semites.« » Shapiro found himself trapped inside Yasser Arafat's compound after the Israelis had surrounded it and opened fire. “The Sharon government sometimes apologizes after it kills an innocent civilian,” Shapiro told CNN from the besieged compound, “but it does not apologize for raping the cities and for going in and carrying out terrorist actions, going house to house much like the Nazis did in World War II, tearing holes through the walls, roughing up people, killing people, assassinating people. This is a terrorist government funded, by the way, by the United States government to the tune of $3 billion a year in U.S. military aid. These are American helicopters and tanks and F-16s doing this damage to the Palestinian people.”« The article also contains interesting accounts of the Israeli-spy ring in the US, and the presence of US military during the Israeli campaign in Jenin in April 2002. Quotations from this item:
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