The Students for Justice and Peace in the Middle East case against Israel last Wednesday was nothing but a farce delivered in a kangaroo court. They made a mockery of justice by lying about the fact that the Israeli security barrier has in fact stopped all terrorism and that the wall does not follow the “internationally recognized border between the two countries (the Green Line).” When in fact, the Green Line was not a border, but an armistice line (between Israel and Jordan) because Palestine was never a country!
Was it justice in 1948 when Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League, declared that the 1948 Israel Arab War would “be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades,” according to Isi Leilber’s “The Case for Israel.” Or justice now when Hamas’s explicit goal when they send one suicide bomber after another into Israel is to deliberately kill civilians?
Ask yourselves, is SJPME really interested in helping the Palestinians when they only attack Israel time and time again instead of looking for positive ways to help them? As evidenced by all the aggressive wars the Arabs have launched against Israel, their problem is not the wall or even its route, but the existence of the Jewish State of Israel itself which the Jewish people will not apologize for.
Hamas’ charter is virulently anti-Semitic and accuses Jews of numerous global conspiracies, referencing the anti-Semitic forgeries “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” and declaring that Jews, Judaism, and Israel challenge the Islam itself.
Zachary Goldstein
Mechanical engineering junior