[Marxism] # Dem leaders out of step with voters on Israel's attack on Gaza

[Ralph Johansen]

It puzzles me that we're not seeing on the web and anywhere else 
available, over and over again on behalf of the Palestinian cause, 
those  maps of the area showing how Israel has stolen more and more 
Palestinian land, year by year - how the squeezing of the Palestinians 
into apartheid areas has systematically developed. That to me is the 
most graphic and shocking illustration of the power relations, the 
Zionist design and the deliberate and fundamentally unfair nature of 
Israel's and US conduct and official policy. Also, to casually compare 
this in justification as some pro-Israeli commentators often do to what 
the US has done historically on the North American continent doesn't cut 
it. Aside from its comparison of two unacceptables, the events are not 
comparable in time and place, and no comparable avenues of protest 
existed then: at the time of the extermination of the Native Americans, 
there was little or no on-the-scene reporting, little or no democracy, 
little or no developed international law (however unenforceable), no 
history of apartheid, few universally accepted standards of humane 
conduct or popular international input of any depth and no instantaneous 
communication through the various world media.

Where would I find those maps?

Ralph Johansen


Anthony Boynton wrote:

Dem leaders out of step with voters on Israel's attack on Gaza
January 3, 2009
BY GLEN GREENWALD

A new Rasmussen Reports poll -- the first to survey American public opinion
specifically regarding the Israeli attack on Gaza -- strongly bolsters the
severe disconnect between American public opinion on U.S. policy toward
Israel and the consensus views expressed by America's political leadership.

Not only does Rasmussen find that Americans generally "are closely divided
over whether the Jewish state should be taking military action against
militants in the Gaza Strip" (44 percent to 41 percent, with 15 percent
undecided), but Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli
offensive -- by a 24-point margin. By stark contrast, Republicans, as one
would expect (in light of their history of supporting virtually any proposed
attack on Arabs and Muslims), overwhelmingly support the Israeli bombing
campaign (62 percent to 27 percent).

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