Congress has approved Israeli expansion and control of the occupied territories, their annexation of Jerusalem (Senate bill 1322, 1995) and collateral slaughter of any Palestinians associated with those who would resist Israel by force. If history is a guide, the US Congress will approve the sale of more weapons to Israel to kill any or all Palestinians who dare to pick up a stone andfight back.
Hezbollah arose from the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians after the 1949 and 1967 wars that expanded the borders of Israel and forced Palestinians out of Israel into Lebanon. Millions more displaced Palestinians will be kicked out of their homes as Israel continues its expansion into the West Bank for "natural growth, and this will merely swell the ranks of current angry displaced Palestinians.
Peace, reconciliation and understanding do not result from denying human rights, intolerance and imposition of oppressive living conditions. By encouraging Israel's present path that feeds the hatred and conflict in the region, the US Congress seals the future for all who live there.
Will Palestinians displaced from their homeland, witness to the slaughter of family and relatives by US-made missiles and bullets, daily humiliation by the Israeli Defense --see the US as anything other than benefactor, supporter, enabler and patron saint of a hated and despised enemy? Will any see the tepid efforts at peace by sequential prior US administrations as anything but cover for the far more consistent and heavy handed support of Israel by a US Congress already enshrined by its multiple resolutions and support for Israel's ultimate solution to the Palestinian issue? What then will protect the US public from the hate, anger, retribution and terrorism these outcomes will inevitably produce later?
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