AMERICAN POLICY WONKS AND MEDIA HEADS IGNORE THE WORSENED SIEGE OF GAZA

One of the objectives of the Israeli invasion and bombardment of Gaza was to intensify the siege. For three weeks the Palestinians have been under bombardment as their supply lines were either blockaded by the Israelis as usual along with the connivance of the Egyptian dictator, Mubarek. Major efforts were made to destroy the emergency tunnel system which was providing some life giving supplies to the 1.4 million people of Gaza. Now the Israeli invaders have scurried back to their suburban lifestyles. Gaza is more isolated and under siege than ever.

Of course, no one in the corporate and pro-imperialist media talks about the siege of Gaza and the West Bank and frankly it seems that we usually have one or more Zionists doing all the talking. PBS and NPR have really ignored the massacres in Gaza with the exception of BBC to some extent. Indeed, even these more informative sources of information usually repeat Israeli talking points instead of covering the news. What is the percent of Zionists at these publicly financed news organizations?

When will Americans pay attention to reality? The siege is crucial to understanding the nature of Israel and its allies. It is a crime against humanity and a war crime. We can't ignore the siege of Palestine, including Gaza and be talking about anything but Israeli and American imperialist talking points.

With more than 11oo or is it 1200 slaughtered by the Israli war machine and only fifty of them fighters we have to speak out and demand that the happily chatty "journalists" of NPR and PBS get off their lazy intellectual behinds and start covering facts in the real world instead of repeating Israeli talking points ad infinitum!

GO IN PEACE WITH THE LIGHT OF UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE TO ALL PLACES OF WORSHIP TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIANS

The Palestinian people have the rights all people have, or they should. Israel has decided otherwise. Today as I write the people of Gaza are in dire straights facing starvation, the denial of medical care and the termination of their water and energy resources.

Without the support of the United States this siege of more than a million people would not be happening and without the support of American clergy and congregations this would not be happening.

We need to demand that the clergy of every religion, denomination and faith based group step up and defend the right of the Palestinian people to food, water and the basic human rights all human beings deserve. Basta Ya! End the Siege of Palestine!

We must go in peace to all persons of faith to testify for and on behalf of the Palestinians. Their lives are in the hands of America's faithful and they must know the truth. They must know the truth if they say they are Christian. They must know the truth about the Palesinians if they are Jewish. and they must know the truth whatever their religion whether it be Abrahamic or not, denomination or faith based organization.

In particular those who have fooled themselves or allowed themselves to be misled in the religious communities need to be engaged in constructive dialogue and representation. Collective punishment is always a crime, isn't it?

The collective torture, starvation, deprivation, imprisonment, brutalization and murder of more than a million people is wrong and it is wrong for our clergy and tens of millions of their parishoners to silently proceed about their endless musings of the ancient texts when our brothers and sisters are on the verge of death. Let the light shine on those murdering the Palestinians and let the people of America see the truth at last.

We all are Palestinians!