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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   April 26, 2024   
      
   New York – I was kicked out of New York’s prestigious Collegiate   
   private school many moons ago for ‘revolutionary and disruptive   
   activities.’   
      
   Thank goodness my wise parents sent me to the International School of   
   Geneva, Switzerland where I thrived.   
      
   The underground French fascist group, ‘la Main Rouge’ repeatedly   
   threatened to kill me for organizing student demonstrations against   
   France’s colonial war in Algeria. But I survived.   
      
   Being a life-long rebel and hell-raiser, I am naturally sympathetic to   
   today’s pro-Palestinian student protests that are now sweeping   
   American and European campuses.   
      
   Students may be poor and too emotional, but they are often filled with   
   repulsions at the sight of mass killing, political brutality, and   
   murderous hatred such as we see today in the prison camp of Gaza. They   
   have yet to learn the sordid truth about how money can buy indulgences   
   from killing civilians and other war crimes.   
      
   Just ask Joe Biden, and British PM Rishi Sunak. They are continuing to   
   arm and finance Israel’s mass killing and starvation in Gaza for the   
   sake of huge cash donations as elections loom, and the support of   
   ardently pro-Israel voters who are marching to the drum of Israel’s   
   far right-wing government. The US and British media have been   
   whitewashing the genocide in Gaza and twisting their reporting to   
   justify mass killing of civilians. The New York Times has earned   
   opprobrium by ordering its staff to slant the news it misreports. This   
   once great newspaper has ruined its reputation. It reminds of the   
   great Mark Twain’s famous bon mot, ‘If you don’t read the news you are   
   uninformed. If you do, you are misinformed.’   
      
   Let’s be frank. President Joe Biden, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and   
   their pal Egypt’s despot Abdel el-Sisi are directly responsible for   
   the deaths of 14,000 Palestinian children, almost 35,000 Palestinian   
   civilians seriously wounded, some 2 million Palestinians now homeless,   
   growing starvation and disease across Gaza used by Israel as a refuse   
   dump for unwanted Arabs. The Biden administration is providing over   
   $14.1 billion in arms to Israel, including the deadly 2,000lb bombs   
   used to crush entire civilian apartment buildings and hospitals, plus   
   tank shells fired at residential targets. All in clear violation of US   
   arms export laws written by Congress.   
      
   Why is Biden the key player in such mass destruction? Why is his UN   
   delegation vetoing resolutions to stop Israeli laying waste to Gaza?   
   It’s election time coming up. And because the Democrats get the lion’s   
   share of their finances from pro-Israel sources.   
      
   Big money talks. Human rights walk. The US Congress, a sorry   
   collection of used car salesmen, has been bought and sold. What a   
   disgrace for the USA. The oil Arabs could also have bought Congress   
   but they were too busy squabbling with one another.   
      
   So, while the high and mighty averted their gaze to massacres and   
   famine in Gaza, it was left up to students around the globe to raise   
   their voice in anger over the crimes there. My alma mater, Georgetown   
   Foreign Service, raised a chorus of protests. So too Columbia   
   University and UCLA, Sciences Po in Paris, in fact just about   
   everywhere except Germany, whose people are still paying Israel for   
   World War II.   
      
   Big money donors, who made billions off our rigged financial system,   
   are trying to silence protests over Israel’s wanton cruelty. Israelis   
   are right to be furious over the killing of an estimated 1,139 Israeli   
   civilians and soldiers. But killing tens of thousands of innocent   
   Arabs was wildly out of proportion and clearly criminal.   
      
   America, Britain and Canada have disgraced themselves – all for the   
   sake of money. The Gaza massacre has revealed the US to be a deeply   
   corrupt society. University students at least helped save America’s   
   honor. They are doing the right thing. Alas, they do not yet have a   
   Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young band to turn their protests into   
   electrifying music. Meanwhile, Palestinian children continue to starve   
   or die of disease while Israel ruins its name and paid-for politicians   
   spout lies.   
      
   https://ericmargolis.com/2024/04/students-go-after-the-hypocrites/   
      
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