The Israeli-Arab conflict is about treachery, confiscication of land, the
forceful exile of Palestinians from their homeland, the imposition of
Israel: the 52nd State of the United States in the Middle East and the
continued subjugation and humiliation of the Palestinians. It is also about
a determined and lawful struggle for freedom by the Palestinians against
US-backed tyranny led by the Israeli occupation force.
The hype in the Western media about suicide bombings being carried out by
the desperate Palestinians against innocent Israeli civilians visa vis the
indiscriminite killings of Palestinians and summary execution of their
activists and militants by the Israeli occupation forces is unbelievable.
Killing of the innocent is wrong regardless of the method in which the
killings are committed but the Western media which  feeds us with
information is fond of potraying suicide killings as far more uncivilised
than killing by tank fire or other so-called conventional methods inspite of
those targeted on both sides being civilians or suspected militants. As it
stands, the death ratio between the Palestinian and Israeli sides is 8 to 1.
The biasness of the Western media towards Israel should not surprise anyone
who knows that Rupert Murdoch is the best friend of Ariel Sharon.
The ultimate, just and dignified formula to solving the conflict was
recently put forward by the Saudis. It is none other than the return of
Israel to its pre-1967 borders in return for the full recognition of the
State of Israel by the entire Arab world. However, the US and Sharon has not
learnt the full lessons of Lebanon. The Arab-Israeli conflict is highly
profitable to the US armaments industry. The US diplomatic and military
establishment is still convinced that the dividends of peace in the Middle
East will undermine their economic and military prowess throughout the world
and until there is a genuine change of heart from that line of thinking, the
conflict will rage on and continue to claim more innocent souls from both
sides. However, if Israel defies the US and withdraws to its pre-1967
borders today, the conflict will end today. Until then, the genuine struggle
of the Palestinians against foreign occupation and subjugation will continue
regardless of the price to be paid.
To those who try to equate Yasser Arafat with Ariel Sharon, it is like
equating Nelson Mandela with Peter Botha. Yasser Arafat is also fighting for
the liberation of his people and like Mandela in his struggle days is
prepared to die in the cause to free his people.  There can be no
capitulation to subjugation as Ho Che Ming: leader of the free Vietnamese
forces told Uncle Sam during the Vietnam war.

Why are those who are proclaiming to be neutral over a clear case of
subjugation vs liberation in the Israeli-Arab conflict not likewise neutral
over the misrule in the Gambia? Don't say it is because you are Gambians and
not Palestinians. Decent men should stand for freedom everywhere. I
therefore have and shall not have any regret in to labelling all those who
profess to be neutral in the Arab-Plestinian conflict as being under one of
the following three categories:
1- Ill-informed about the origin and state of the conflict.
2- Selectively unjust but posing to be neutral
3- Plainly hypocritical

As Saiks would say, 'for Freedom'

The yoke of oppression must be shattered!

BMK


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