CITIZEN NORMAN FINKELSTEIN MAKES A BRILLIANT SUGGESTION

The various and sundry campaigns to nonviolently confront and defeat the Israeli siege of Palestine, and especially Gaza, has grown geometrically since the incredibly savage Israeli massacre of more than 1400 Gazans in 2008. Israel has never seen such a loss of respect and popular support. Europe has largely come to see what Israel is doing to the Palestinians but Zionist influence remains strong in the halls of government. The United States is rapidly becoming a different country as the Zionist oppression of the Palestinians is finally being seen for what it is, a longstanding and continuing set of crimes against humanity and peace.

Norm Finkelstein, the son of holocaust survivors, has helped us see through the apparent memorialization of the shoah or Jewish holocaust which ends up being used to confuse the public about what is going on in Palestine/Israel today. Now he suggests a mass demonstration to impose international law in Gaza by opening the border crossings which Israel and Egypt generally keep shut like prison gates.

Meanwhile, hundreds of United States citizens will soon return to the United States eager to tell their relations, friends and communities about what is really going on in Gaza, Israel and Egypt.

It is time for the right-wing American rabbis to embrace international law, to show that they too love the Palestinians and to criticize the real crimes of Israel with the intention of improving the situation for all parties. Or they can continue supporting Israel's confrontational and subversive influence both vis-a-vis Palestinians whom they brutalize and murder; and the United States citizens whom they have so substantially misled and used to oppress the Palestinians.

When American Zionists maintain an uncritical and callous support of Israeli crimes they only discredit themselves. American citizens are seeing this more and more every day. The great educational campaign about Palestine and Gaza is only beginning.