World Trade Center - Beirut Style - Courtesy of Israel

World Trade Center - Beirut Style - Courtesy of Israel

In yesterdays blog, I inadvertently made a comment that even at the time, slipped by me and it never really sank in what I had said until I had the chance to sit and think about it. The comment was... They have determined that a strategic plan of action is to kill peoples mothers and sisters and therefore will force an end to the aggression. Now that I sit and think about it, we literally are supporting a government that has a policy that sanctions the killing of civilians. Targeted attacks on civilians are exactly what we as Americans used as the basis for the war on terror and as a definition, are what we consider terror acts performed by terrorists. The Israeli government has decided, as a policy and with our support, to terrorize the people of Lebanon and Palestine by targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure, and unrelenting bombing strikes on non-military targets. And we as a nation, the United States of America, are providing the financial and logistic support to carry out these actions. We are part and parcel of a series of brutal war crimes being committed in our names. Have we not come full cycle? Is it true that we have become those individuals that we have despised since 9/11? Have we tried so hard to rid this world of evil that our methods have become the epitome of evil? Are we responsible for the deaths of innocent women and children, in buildings, much like the World Trade Center, and are we not providing the bombs the Israeli government is using to burn, mutilate, destroy, and disintegrate, yes literally disintegrate, the bodies of these poor children so that we wont even be able to extract enough DNA from them to determine their identities? Wont people in Beirut be removing body parts from buildings for months during clean up, just like our rescuers did at the World Trade Center? Wont the hatred that we felt after 9/11 also be the same hatred shared by our brothers in Beirut who have no explanation for why their sons or daughters were slaughtered for something they had no control over? Shouldn't we empahthize with the people, just like our relatives who are trying to find out if someone they love is still alive, dead or buried in rubble? And just like after 9/11, shouldnt we go home and hug our children and tell them we love them and cry for the mothers and fathers and children who will never be able to hold the ones they love ever again.

How can I make my fellow Americans see, how can I make them understand that the life of a child dying in the arms of their mother in Beirut is just as important as the life of the child who died in the arms of her mother at the World Trade Center in New York City? How can I make my fellow Americans see that the same old lady crushed under the World Trade Center is the same lady that is crushed inside her home by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza? How can I make my fellow Americans realize that our government and the government in Tel Aviv is responsible for the deaths caused by ongoing indiscriminate bombings and the continued death, burnt bodies and mutilation that we ourselves considered an act of war when it occurred in New York City. If our government is truly fighting a war to stop terror, then it should stop the terror being delivered to the people of Lebanon and Palestine. If it fails to immediately stop the on going bombing and terrorist tactics, then it is evident that the war of terror is just Bushspeak for legitimizing a Crusade against Islam.