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"sharon" <sh@teamquest.net> wrote in message 
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> As a close friend of a Holocaust survivor, I take strong offence to that 
> completely stupid asinine comparison. You've no CLUE what Hitler was all 
> about. NOR do you have a clue about the complexities of the middle east. I 
> live beside a wonderful man who gave 35 years of his life working in the 
> middle east including Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and the West 
> Bank. I've listened to over a hundred hours of stories about his 
> experiences, the culture, beliefs, etc. You haven't a CLUE who you're 
> defending or even why.

Really...here's what some ***NON- ZIONIST*** Canadian Jews have
to say about what is going on. I applaud them because of their courage
and strength of moral conviction, and do more to make me proud to be
a Canadian than Harper supporting the cowardly acts of Israel's Zionists.

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'Outrage' at 'morally unconscionable position'

It is no longer tenable to claim "I didn't know" about crimes against 
humanity.

by The Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation August 3, 2006

The Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation is a voice for peace in 
the Middle East along with other Jewish and Palestinian women's groups in 
North America and Israel.

We in Canada are outraged that the Canadian Government and media again 
choose a morally unconscionable position and stand by silently while Israel 
perpetrates a massacre of civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. It 
is a repeat of Sabra and Shatilla, of the massacre at Qana in 1996, with the 
world leaders looking on.

After World War II at the Nuremburg tribunal, Nazis attempted to exonerate 
themselves by claiming that they did not know about the genocide. It is no 
longer tenable to claim "I didn't know" about crimes against humanity. There 
is ample witnessing and documentation of genocides in Korea, Vietnam, 
Cambodia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 
Guatemala and now in the Middle East.

We know from Israeli historians themselves about the ethnic cleansing of 
indigenous Palestinians in 1948, and we know from Israeli NGOs and 
journalists of the current massacre of civilians and destruction of the 
societal infrastructure and physical environment of the Palestinian people.

The language of propaganda and war is twisted so that aggressor appears to 
be victim. Language is sadistic when a "military operation" is called 
"Summer Rain" as a whole people are deprived of water in the intense heat of 
summer. Language is terrifying when Israel calls the current attack on Gaza 
"Samson's Pillars" - Samson in myth was the biggest suicide terrorist of 
all - purportedly killing 3000 people when he committed suicide by tearing 
down the temple pillars.

We fear that Israeli crimes against humanity will persist when even speaking 
about them entails accusations of anti-Semitism.

Will Canada collude with state terrorism or will Canada adhere to the rule 
of law with respect to the illegalities of occupation and the physical and 
psychological tormenting and murdering of civilians? We call on Canada to 
call for an immediate ceasefire, observed by the U.N. and not NATO, and for 
the immediate restoration of aid to the democratically elected Palestinian 
government.

In a just world, Israel would make reparations, just as Germany did to 
Jewish people.

Elizabeth Block
Smadar Carmon
Judy Deutsch
Sue Goldstein
Rachel Gorman
Reena Katz
Deborah Mandell
Jill Rogin
Susan Starkman
Esther Vise
Naomi Binder Wall
Judith Weisman
for the Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation, Toronto