{news} FW: [usgp-nc] Bigotry and prejudice rear it’s ugly head in the Green Party

[Amy Vas Nunes]

I GUESS I AM NOT ALONE.........LONG AND TRUE. WHAT ROLE DOES MCCABE HAVE IN THIS? I HAVE BEEN ON AL WADA LISTSEREV IT WAS RIFE WITH LIES, HATE AND SUPPORTED BOMBER AS FREEDOM FIGHTERS>>>>>>>>AMY> From: ncanaan at hotmail.com> To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:12:46 -0400> Subject: [usgp-nc] Bigotry and prejudice rear it’s ugly head in the Green Party> > > > Bigotry and prejudice rear it’s ugly head in the Green Party> > TO: GPUS National Office> GP Steering committee.> GP International committee.> GP Peace Action Committee.> GPUS Press Release office.> David J. Kalbfleisch, - Green congressional candidate in Illinois' 10th district dave at electdave.org> Mohammed K. Abed, Wisconsin Green Party mkabed at wisc.edu > Kathleen Culver, Green candidate for Congress in Tennessee newtribe at hughes.net> Ruth Weill, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party.> ruthweill at gmail.com> > > > RE: Objection to press release: Greens urge economic pressure and cutoff of all military aid to Israel as Gaza situation worsens> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES> http://www.gp.org> For Immediate Release:> Monday, March 3, 2008Re-Release as follows> Home | Press | Print> Greens, Calling for Palestinian Rights, Urge Divestment from Israel> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES> http://www.gp.org > Monday, November 28, 2005> Contacts:> Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org > Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org > Mohammed K. Abed, Wisconsin Green Party, 608-332-9900, mkabed at wisc.edu > Justine McCabe, International Committee, 860-354-1822, justinemccabe at earthlink.net > > > RE: Objection to: The peace action committee> Posting their support of Al-Awda, and the following purpose of said group.** This can be found on the Peace Action WIKI page: > > 1. Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State> > > > > As a Green Party member committed to finding solutions for peace, I strongly object to the one sided inflammatory verbiage contained in the above releases and endorsements by the Green Party. > I call for the Green Party to discontinue their obvious anti-Israel policy for the following reasons.> > At this very moment, and for the past 60 years, 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Palestinians, the PLO, Hezbollah* - and Hamas **- have undeniably waged war both politically and militarily as well as religiously against the state of Israel and it’s Jewish population.> *(Hezbollah leaders have made numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel, which they describe as an unlawful "entity". {Wikipedia.} Six countries, list Hezbollah, or its external security arm, as a terrorist organization)> **(Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by Canada, Israel, Japan, and the United States, and is banned in Jordan. Australia and the United Kingdom list only the militant wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as a terrorist organization. The European Union lists Hamas as a group 'involved in terrorist attacks' and has implemented restrictive measures against Hamas. {Wikipedia}.)> > With the above in mind, I suggest the Green Party has no right to attack the only democratic country in the Middle East for defending itself for the past six decades. > I also suggest that there appears to be a disconnect in the minds of many greens on the matter of religious freedom. The state of Israel happens to be the only place on this planet where Jews are safe from religious persecution both theoretically, by political intent and in actual practice. But sadly, Israel is not safe from the bigotry or religious persecution from the Arab world.> Religious freedom should sound familiar to any Green, to any American. Yet, our Green Party makes no attempt to condemn religious persecution in the form of religious venom spewing across Israel’s borders (from the Arab world) whether it’s rockets being dropped on Israel’s Jewish civilians or political perfidy from the floor of the UN. > > Consider for a moment> Maybe the Arabian Peninsula, which was divided up into separate countries should be forced to coalesce and become one nation? Maybe the United States should retreat behind its original 1776 borders? Or maybe America should be given back to the American Indians whose claim to ownership is unquestionable.> > Consider for a moment, the actions of the UN dividing up Yugoslavia into three separate countries. There is no outcry from the Green Party over the millions of displaced people separated ethnically, who will never be able to return to their homes (across newly drawn borders;) or to Sarajevo, a magnificent city which is now subject to ethnic restrictions. > Consider the UN’s military barriers that have been placed between them to keep them separated and segregated. Why hasn’t the UN created a military barrier between the Arab world and Israel?> Why the opposition from the entire Arab world, America and Great Britain to this almost standard UN procedure?> > Take into consideration what happened when Cuba invited communist Russia onto its shore. Missiles were aimed at Cuba, which would have decimated the tiny island. In other words America went ballistic! America even helped Cuban exiles wage a military action against Cuba, a country that didn’t even fire one bullet at America’s mainland nor made any move to attack America. > The invasion failed, so instead of building a wall between the two countries America used a fortuitously placed natural barrier, called the Atlantic Ocean to keep the two nations separate.> The American Coast Guard vigorously patrols this natural barrier and shots down, takes prisoners or returns anyone coming from Cuba. > And there’s no one in America who would disagree, that missiles would have been launched if Cuba had made a serious move against America, as the communist world kept saying it would do. > We still have no political relationship with Cuba. We still have our gunships aimed at them. Why isn’t the Green Party actively engaged in this important issue, which is right here in our own backyard?> > Why doesn’t the Green Party condemn China, call for boycotts on every single product on our shelves that is made in China? Why doesn’t the Green Party call for an all out cessation of any and all economic aid and ties to a country that is loathsome when it comes to civil rights and human rights? Why doesn’t the Green Party put out one press release after another after another, against a country that mows down its citizens with assault weapons, is still is acquisition colonial mode in Tibet, throws it’s citizens into jail for speaking out against the government and has a population of undocumented, uneducated, unrecognized and displaced 2nd or 3rd children?> > One of the major jobs of a government is to protect its citizens from assault within its borders. The United States has a government at the moment, who not only failed to do this, but with Cheney pulling away the air defenses we had (for war games) on 9/11 and Bush saying he sat outside the classroom watching one of the towers being hit, it appears Bush/Cheney and Company have been complicit in the attack. The American Congress has not impeached this tag team, nor stopped the funding for this tag team’s military action in Iraq, which is 70% outsourced to private companies such as Blackwater and Halliburton. > Israel is being attacked. It’s the job of its government to stop this and safeguard its citizens. You will have to excuse me, but it’s plain hubris for Americans to sit comfortably in their homes and decide how much force they find acceptable for any country to use to protect itself from an immediate and imminent proven threat. > > Why does the Green Party give credence and support to 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Arabs of Gaza, the Arabs of The West Bank, Hezbollah and Hamas, and those anti Israel people here in America, who refuse to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist in peace without daily threat of death and destruction. Why doesn’t the Green Party cry out against this religious persecution? Even Ray Hanania, from the Arab Writers Group Syndicate calls for an end to all forms of violence against Israeli civilians, calling Arab violence “a terrorism that is immoral and inhumane and illegal”.> The press releases issuing out of GPUS are abysmally one sided, prejudicial and smacks of anti-Israel bigotry. The Resolution Adopted by the Green Party of the United States, on November 21, 2005, Whereby The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) publicly calls for divestment from and boycott of the State of Israel also unfairly targets Israel. > > The Jews of Israel are up against 21 Arab nations, SADR, the Palestinians, the PLO, Hezbollah, (a terrorist organization) and Hamas. (A group 'involved in terrorist attacks.)> Why are the Jews of Israel facing these astronomically dire odds? > For their right to remain in Israel, a country they emerged from in 1671 BCE, and inhabited since 1272 BCE and gained statehood in 1948; for their right to be free from religious persecution.> > The Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank, originally from what used to be called Palestine, (forced into tent cities and not welcomed by the Islamic world who built walls both physically and politically, to prevent them from crossing into neighboring Arab nations) have remained in limbo for 60 years. During these 60 years they have been exploited and subjected to the special agenda of the Arab world at-large while the UN has been thwarted at every turn from accomplishing any relocating efforts. In fact the refugee catastrophe is one of the UN’s most shameful and inexcusable failures. > There’ve been no refugees left for 60 years like the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have. Nor has there been any way so far, to reconcile, as I will go into below. > > Contrary to innuendo and outright claims by some Greens, Israel is not a racist nation. But, if the label needs to be placed with anyone, then Racism is an Arab Policy.> My assertion that racist policy lies at the doorstep of the Arab world is unequivocally backed up by 60 years of instigated and perpetuated aggression specifically directed against Israel’s Jewish population.> > And if it’s not Arab Racism that should be looked at and condemned, it’s Arab Sexism of the worst possible kind that runs rampant in the Middle Eastern Arab nations, and should be addressed most ardently by the world, and especially by the Greens. The subservient, powerless nature of females in Arab society is well documented, as are the wars of aggression perpetrated upon Israel by its surrounding Arab neighbors. > Not only did 21 Arab nations declare their intent to destroy Israel in ’48 but they also called on every Arab living in Palestine to wage war on the Jews; and then proceeded to invade Israel from all sides while the world stood back and watched.> What Green has the right to condemn Israel for it’s rigorous and yes, deadly defensive actions; that Israel feels absolutely necessary in order to defend its borders and protect its citizens?> Consider for a moment, the only reason North and South Korea aren’t at each others throats is due to the enormous military barrier in place. Who’s paying for that barrier? If this barrier were removed wouldn’t it be likely the north would move on the south? Is this barrier acceptable to the Greens since they are not protesting the use of military power this way?> Does the Green Party condone gunships leveled against Cuba and military barrier walls against North Korea while in the same breath condemning Israel for protecting itself? Where is the incessant outcry from the Greens against China’s human rights and civil rights violations that are too numerous to count? Where is the outcry from the Green Party against human and civil rights abuses in the Arab world against it’s female population and interestingly enough against the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank? > The slant and intent of the press releases as well as the call for a boycott is unwarranted and is weighted down with anti Israel sentiment. > > The Jewish people lived in Israel for thousands of years before Muslim Arabs came onto the scene. Furthermore Jews are the indigenous population of Israel, being thrown out of their homeland by war and conquerors and continually returning.> > For your reference, a brief history follows:> 1671 BCE Abraham & Sarah (in present day Israel)> 1428 BCE Egyptian slavery begins (Israelites)> 1312 BCE Exodus and Ten Commandments> 1299 Ottoman Empire established> 1272 BCE Jewish People re-enter Israel> 825 BCE First Temple built> First Temple destroyed; > 422 BCE Babylonian exile begins > 352 BCE Second Temple built> Second Temple destroyed;> 70 CE Roman exile begins> 571 CE Mohammad born > 620 CE Islamic Renaissance> 633 CE Mohammad died> 1096 CE First Crusade> 1420 CE Italian Renaissance > 1492 CE Expulsion of Spanish Jewry> 1923 Ottoman Empire dismantled into separate nations> 1939 CE Holocaust> 1948 CE Jewish people reinstated in Israel> 1967 CE Reunification of Jerusalem> > During thousands of years of history, the Jewish people fought with other nations and tribes in the area just as African nations went to war with their neighbors, just as one American Indian nation fought with another Indian Nation. > Wars were not uncommon, but their outcome doesn’t fall into the definition of apartheid then or now.> > Yet apartheid seems to be today’s flavor of the month word. A word flung about indiscriminatingly and incorrectly by many Greens. Apartheid was a political system in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990’s that gave empire building people of white European origin both political, cultural, social and economic privileges while keeping the indigenous African black population segregated. This type of segregation was for the purpose of forcibly acquiring South Africa’s natural resources for profit.> Israel, on the other hand, built a wall between themselves and people who blow up their children. This is not apartheid.> Israel has been in defensive mode for decades. That this defensive mode necessitated their acquiring tactically necessary land in order to prevent attaches from high ground and then taking land to create a buffer against this attack is necessary for Israel’s survival, but wouldn’t be necessary anymore if the Arab world ended their war on Israel. Am I the only person who can see Arab and Jew living side by side in one land? Or even side by side in two lands? Or side-by-side in any way the two parties themselves decide?> > GPUS is calling for cutting off aid to Israel, but doesn’t take into account or seem to object to the lethal policy of military aggression towards Israel conducted by Arab nations. Nations who receive billions of dollars from the American taxpayer every year. GPUS doesn’t seem to object to the stupendous military buildup in Saudi Arabia that rivals anything in the area, and the military aid to other Arab countries for weapons that have been and are continually used against Israeli citizens? > GPUS doesn’t seem to object to the largest growing industry world wide, that of the private military outsourcing industry which is crawling all over the Middle East. This industry has put America into triple billion-dollar debt and is growing at record speeds to trillion dollar cost status worldwide. > The press releases make no mention of the ongoing bill American citizens pay for arming the Arab world, yet the Green Party is calling for an end to economic aid to the only free democratic country in the region. Why isn’t the Green Party running a vigorous campaign to stop funding the Arab world, or even to stop Blackwater, Halliburton and all other private military outsourcing companies whose financial windfalls are crushing the American taxpayer?> Are there many Greens in America who feel it’s ok to exclusively arm the Arab world? Or to arm the Bush/Cheney and company’s private military worldwide that might very well bring about WW III?> Furthermore, does the Arab world have the right to maim, kill, murder and use deadly force towards the Jews of Israel or towards anyone who supports the nation of Israel, even if it’s another Arab?> > Are there many Greens in America who feel the Arab nations, including the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have the right to be a deadly daily threat to every citizen in Israel, every day of every year in perpetuity? > > What If the Arab world actually stopped exploiting their brethren in Gaza and the West Bank, who they’re using as their front line suicide pawns? What if the Arab world stopped this exploitation, which is both economical, and political, would peace be possible? Of course! But it means America must stay out of the picture, the whole picture, regardless of the issue of oil in the Middle East. > One of the serious questions the Green Party needs to ask is why does the Arab world segregate the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank? Are they some sort of threat to the Arab world? Is there some history that’s beneath the surface which makes these particular Arabs dangerous or is Gaza and the West Bank being punished for not standing and killing every Jew in the state of Israel? Why the animosity from the Arab world? > Why would Egypt, for instance, carry on an inhuman and immoral action, which it recently did, against Gaza’s Arabs who tried to flee into Egypt?> > Is war ok? No, > But it appears that no one wants to deal with the fact that there can be peace in the Middle East tomorrow. So there will continue to be Arab aggression against Israel - with no end in sight. > Are refugee camps ok? No.> but even though the UN has dealt successfully with refuges in many difficult and complex situations over the years, the opposition they’ve encountered from the entire Arab world is why there is a refugee Gaza and a refugee West Bank – with no end in sight.> > War decimates human rights as it escalates down into its inevitable outcome. It’s no different in the Middle East. War becomes an atrocity, and in the Middle East both sides have compiled and published detailed corroborated incidents delineating the only outcome of war, that being abuses and death at every corner, no matter which way you turn. But I pose a question to the Green Party. Aren’t the human rights as well as the civil rights of every young person being brain washed into committing suicide, while becoming murders, being violated? Isn’t this an urgent issue that desperately needs light shown on it? Maybe more so than any other issue?> > The landscape of war is one of destruction. The loss of a child, a mother, a father, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, and/or robbing children of their childhood by turning 12 to 18 year olds into killers and murderers, is the only outcome of war. > No matter which side you turn to, there is loss, suffering and pain. No matter whether it’s Africa, the Middle East or across the steppes of Russia to Asia, or even here in the United States that has an unending trail of broken treaties with it’s native American People, > War is poisonous policy, with profits going to old men while our young people, with their blood and their lives, pay the bill.> > Israeli’s have been attached, their young mutilated and murdered from the very moment of statehood so many decades ago to the present day. Arabs have suffered great losses in retaliation and their young killed.> Is the Palestinian family suffering over the loss of their loving and wonderful young son? Yes. Is the Israeli family who had their beautiful young daughter physically maimed for life and brain damaged in a suicide bombers attack suffering? Yes. Is war totally destructive to all sides? Yes.> Does war push the opposing sides into desperately lethal waters? Yes. Does war wind up being brutal, filled with atrocities as it engages in its inevitable blood bath? Yes.> > Presently, Israel has built it’s own wall, and the incident of alarmingly young Arab children or mentally challenged woman committing suicide at the moment they become murderers has been drastically reduced. Will there be more walls?> > The silence from the Green Party all these years concerning the attacks by 21 Arab nations, SADR, the West Bank and Gaza plus the military/religious Arab extremist groups, and the funding they engage in to wage this war on Israel is reprehensible in my estimation. > To be silent is to condone. > > The road out of this quagmire of killing, retaliation, revenge and death is squarely laid out on the peace table. But peace has to travel through:> Algeria > Bahrain> Comoros> Djibouti> Egypt> Iraq> Jordan> Kuwait> Lebanon> Libya> Mauritania> Morocco> Oman> Palestinians> Qatar> Saudi Arabia> Somalia> Sudan> Syria> Tunisia> United Arab Emirates> Western Sahara (SADR)> and Yemen> Whose political policy is the total and unequivocal annihilation of Israel. > > In the end, peace must come from within, from grassroots pressure exerted on both sides demanding that the landscape not be painted with the blood of their children, but with the colors of peace. > > How can the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank sue for peace, be returned to their homes, or receive adequate compensation if they’re continually waging an active violent destructive campaign against Israel? How can the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank and the state of Israel find peace if the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist? > > What if Israel said fine, Mr. And Mrs. … here is you house back. Will that work? Will Mr. and Mrs. Returned Property join Israeli society, become good citizens and contribute to the well being of all? Will Mr. and Mrs. Returned Property declare that Israel has nothing to fear from them now or in the future and that they will change their political policy so that the Jews of Israel and the Muslims of the Arab world (or at least Gaza and the West Bank) can co exist in peace and harmony? > They say not. > > And here in America the Green Party and its members take pot shots at Israel; while with their stupendous silence they condone the ongoing war of aggression perpetrated by the Arab world upon Israel. > > Both Israelis and the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have been put in an untenable position. It must be akin to living in a fishbowl. There is no room to maneuver and the waters are getting murkier and poisonous. > For the Greens, maybe their part is stopping Cheney who it’s been recently revealed removed America’s air defenses on September 11, 2001. For the Greens, maybe their part is stopping Cheney who went fishing off the Sultan of Oman's royal yacht on the 5th anniversary of the “manufactured war” he and Bush started in Iraq? A war that’s stolen the lives of four thousand American young men and women. A war that’s put America another trillion dollars in debt. > Maybe the Green Party should be stopping Bush who said he sat outside a schoolroom watching one of the twin towers being hit and for hideously rendering the word patriot unrecognizable by using it to name one of the most repugnantly undemocratic and unconstitutional political orders this country has ever been responsible for. > Maybe the Green Party needs to put all its efforts into stopping another election being stolen through computer manipulation, by any candidate? > Maybe the Green Party needs to elect a President – VP – and Congress who will reinstitute the Constitution and The Bill of Rights to it’s rightful place within our political body in order to protect individual rights against corporate new world order right wing fanatics? > Maybe this is what the Green Party needs to do in order to help bring about peace not only in the Middle East but also around the world.> > The Greens, if they take any stand, must first and foremost call for the Arab world to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.> To take this stand would be monumentally positive, since this one act, if accomplished, would instantly remove the aggression and antagonism from all the people, Arab Muslim, Christian or Israeli Jew, Muslim or Christian in and around Israel. > Once the threat to Israel’s survival is removed anything is possible, compensation, return of property, roads opened up and a free flow of industry and learning. > Can the world imagine children from Gaza and the West Bank going to school with Israeli children? Can the Arab world imagine this? Can the Green Party envision this?> I can envision peace tomorrow, can the Green Party? > > > > > > __________________________________> Furthermore!> The peace action committee> Posted this on their WIKI page: **> > 1) Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State> > With this endorsement, and the incorrect and inflammatory use of language, you’re looking at the face of bigotry and racism. What’s looking back is the Green Party of the United States!> > > **Nowhere did the Peace committee condemn Arab and/or Palestinian religious bigotry towards the Jews of Israel nor did the Peace committee condemn the continual human rights and civil rights violations by the surrounding Arab countries against the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank. > The full script on the WIKI site can be found in GPAX Notices> > > > > > _________________________________________________________________> Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger.> http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008> _______________________________________________> Natlcomvotes mailing list> To send a message to the list, write to:> Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org> To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to:> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes> > If your state delegation changes, please see:> http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html> > To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org> > For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see:> http://gp.org/committees/nc/
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