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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:27:21 -0600
Subject: [NotInMyName] The real Israeli existential crisis
Sent to the Chicago Tribune
To the Editors,
It
was recently revealed that in July, Israel's cabinet secretly decided to expropriate
thousands of acres of land from Palestinians in East
Jerusalem. By applying its Absentee Property Law, written in
1950, Israel claims the right to confiscate
Palestinian land for exclusive Jewish use if its owners do not live on it.
Palestinians are intentionally prevented from living on most of their land by a
few tiny obstacles, such as the Occupation, the Separation Wall, and military
checkpoints. Not to mention that between 1947 and 1949, 750,000 were
expelled from what became Israel.
The Israeli daily,
Haaretz, editorialized, "It is
impossible not to deem the cabinet's decision theft, as well as an act of state
stupidity of the highest order." (1/21/05) It is also a grotesque
violation on international law, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the
U.N. Charter, and scores of U.N. Resolutions.
While this latest Israeli
land-grab was to be expected, I am shocked by the absolute silence on the part
of the U.S. government, the international community, and my fellow Jews, in
who's name Israel often claims to be acting. This despicable act
represents the real existential crisis facing Israel: the
crisis of morality.
Joel R Finkel
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