03/04/08: U.S. should stop Israeli atrocities in Gaza
Detroit News- March 4, 2008
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi:
U.S. should stop Israeli atrocities in Gaza
Some Jews have said, "We don't forget or forgive the Holocaust." Then last week, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai threatened with a "bigger shoah" or holocaust.
Much of the same mainstream media that attacked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over a mistranslation about supposedly being wiped off the map ignored Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit's statement, reported by the Associated Press, that "We must take a neighborhood in and wipe it off the map." Sheetrit is justifying mass murder.
Based on BBC reports, basic human dignity is denied in . John Holmes, the United Nations' top official, said he was shocked by a "grim and miserable" situation in .
The Palestinian militants' rockets have left 13 dead in the last seven years, while has killed 120 people and wounded more than 350 since attacks began Wednesday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called this barbaric bombardment of civilians and killing of children "a disproportionate and excessive use of force."
As we honor Jewish peace activists who call for the end of the siege and for peace and coexistence, we remind the friends of that to imprison the 1.5 million people of in a walled ghetto without allowing in food, water, electricity or even fuel for the ambulances to carry the dead bodies is genocide.
If the reason for all these atrocities is to stop the militants' rocket attacks, why did Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert repeatedly reject the Hamas ceasefire offers, saying no negotiation? He wants the Palestinians to accept total submission to Israeli occupation.
The conference was called a "window of opportunity," and the Arab rulers did all they were told, but more Palestinians have been killed since then. even ignored President Bush's demand for "a halt to all Jewish settlement expansion" and is threatening the integrity of the and the Aqsa Mosque.
does whatever it desires regardless of condemnations. If killing Palestinian children were the solution, should be the safest country in the world after 60 years of slaughter.
We know from our Scriptures that Pharaoh killed thousands of the children of to prevent the emergence of Moses, not knowing that he was raising Moses in his own palace. Moses didn't need a nuclear weapon to free his people; all it took was his staff.
is beginning to lose some sympathy. An editorial in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz argues: "We have become accustomed to treating the Palestinians as inferior people." It even discussed 's Abu Ghraib-like prisons.
should be very worried of God's justice.
Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu already have warned of its apartheid policies. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is the best Arab friend ever sponsored, yet he has accused of committing international terrorism. It's time for the world community to force to wake up and start respecting human life and integrity.
Will we as Americans ever regain our moral direction and stand for the universal principles of truth and justice prescribed by the Bible, the Quran and the Declaration of Independence?
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi heads the Islamic House of Wisdom