Aporrea: Israeli Criminals may not Remain Unpunished

January 20, 2010

The Ambassador of Palestine in Venezuela, Farid Suwwan, exclaimed, "Just like the Nazi criminals were taken to international tribunals and punished for their actions, the massacre of Israel against the Palestinian state must go down the same way for there to be justice and peace in the Middle East." This statement comes one year following Operation Cast Lead in Gaza which left 1,434 Palestinians dead, including women and children.Aporrea claims that the Israeli Army violence has yet to cease. In recent days, at least three Palestinians were murdered on the Gaza border, through air attacks, something that worries diplomatic representatives because it implies Israel wants the conflict to continue. Suwwan said that Israel was violating the Oslo accords and has refused to negotiate while still continuing their violent attacks. Meanwhile, the U.N. human rights council has gotten involved to assist the Judicial process. Suwwan remembers that Obama said in his speech in Cairo that the, "Situation of the Palestinians is intolerable. They suffer daily humiliation that accompany the occupation. We will never turn our backs on their legitimate right to live with dignity in their own state."Suwwan is angry because he feels that Obama never followed up on his statement and is not helping the Palestinian people.Suwwan says that Israel has always been protected because of their earlier historical suffering but that the Palestinians were not the ones that "assasinated" the Jews and they now feel like they are being punished for the Nazi's wrongdoing.He says that the Israeli's are acting like the Nazi's murdering women and children that have nothing to do with the conflict. Suwwan goes on to exclaim the Palestinians are "not asking for the moon", they just want access to their ever shrinking territory. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his opposition to the existence of a Palestinian state without Jewish presence and his refusal to include Jerusalem in the negotiations.
This article is clearly very Pro- Palestinian. It again presents the Palestinians as the victims; murdered children, no land and no representation. Yet the article fails to mention that the Gaza attack was flamed by a Palestinian attack and the fact that places like Sderot, are being hit with Palestinian rockets on a day to day basis.It is also interesting to note that Suwwan says that they are not the ones who murdered the Jews.While they may have not murdered Jews during the Holocaust, they have been murdering innocent Jews since the inception of the State of Israel in 1948. It is dangerous that the Palestinians believe that Obama is their ally. If the President does choose to get involved it will be a detrimental action for the the Jewish community and his international reputation. This article continues to rally Palestinian support and make the living situation for the Venezuelan Jewish community even more intolerable.
Link to Original Article: http://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n149325.html