A few weeks ago, a 71-year-old man stabbed a 6-year-old boy 26 times and injured his mother while shouting, “You Muslims Must Die.” The victim, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was a Palestinian American who loved his family, soccer, and basketball. The alleged killer, Joseph Czuba, was not a stranger or a distraught drifter; he was the landlord of the building where the young Wadea lived, had a good relationship with the boy’s family, even building a treehouse for Wadea, bringing him toys, and allowing him to swim in a makeshift pool. Czuba, reported, was an avid listener of conservative right-wing radio shows that covered the Israeli-Hamas war; there is no such thing as right/left-wing Media; the American media loses its wings and head when it comes to covering Israeli atrocities.
ISRAEL 9/11!
The reaction of American officials and media is quick, reflexive, myopic, and void of any context.” Hamas is terrorist, and the act is “unprovoked,” and Israel has the right to defend itself; the Palestinians have just to accept that 11th commandant prophecy, and most of all this is Israel/911. Which I disagree, first that New York was not an occupied territory, protected by armies , and the two towers did not have illegal settlers. When a white kid takes a machine gun and kills 10s of innocent people at a church, nightclub, or school, we immediately ask what led the nice boy to commit such a heinous act. Did he have a girlfriend or a tick-tock account? Was he sexually active? Did he lose his parent’s attention and care? But that changed a bit when President Biden finally told the world that the Hamas militant attack on Israel was “Sheer Evil.” “There are moments in this life, and I mean this literally, when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world.
WHO WOULD SPEAK FOR THE PALESTINIANS?
On October 10, 1990 “Nayirah,” a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, stood before Congressional Human Rights Caucus and tearfully asserted that she had watched 15 infants being taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who “left the babies on the cold floor to die.” The chairmen of the Congressional group, Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that Nayirah’s identity would be kept secret to protect her family from reprisals in occupied Kuwait.
