Some ways to end Israeli genocide
What a hoot! The letter of James Chandler was so full of falsehoods on Israel.
Yes Mr. Chandler, first point about Mexico (and Chicanos) perspectives of the Mexican American war is different. The entire Southwest was taken in an unfair war by the United States.
Actually the history of Israel, modern day, goes back to 1948 and the Nakba, where millions of Arabs were expelled in order to create Israel. In 1967, the State of Israel attacked the US ship the Liberty, killing 36 sailors in a UN-provoked attack, and Israel never apologized for this atrocity. Israel attacked Lebanon and killed 77,000 people and has never apologized.
Now in the current war of genocide against the Palestinian people, I blame our senile president Genocide Joe for the current conflict. Biden read a laundry list of falsehoods written by Israel to start the war.
A) There was not 40 beheaded Israeli babies.
B) There was no rapes of Israeli women.
C) The vast majority of the deaths in the Hamas raid were caused by Israeli helicopter and aircrafts dropping bombs on their own people.
What we have now is 40,000 Palestinians mostly women and children killed in Gaza by Israel. Where does Israel gets its bombs and aircraft? Israel is a nuclear power with between 300 and 600 nuclear weapons. Where did Israel get it nuclear secrets? Israel stole these secrets from US.
No, James, the people of Israel are not like people around the world. With just a tiny percentile, they all support the ongoing genocide.
This is not the Israel of the Bible. In fact, Zionists don’t believe in God, only in Israel.
What is the solution? First, an immediate cease fire. Second, stop all arms shipments to Israel. Third, the US should take Israel to the world and convict them of genocide for starters.
P.S. Antelope Green Party vote Genocide Joe out of office. Vote Greens Jill Stein.
Eugene Hernandez
Palmdale
Would help to get rid of delusions
James Chandler: “…Israel has been in the news a lot lately because of its war with Hamas and the nations surrounding it.” Nonsense.
Although it needs to uphold the illusion that it’s under siege, Israel isn’t at war with its outgunned and mostly subdued neighbors. Since October, the typically illegitimate settler colonialist state of Israel has accelerated its 76-year-long genocidal project against Palestinians. Hamas is merely the Israeli-created, lightly armed wing of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s genocide.
James Chandler: “The only thing that makes [Israelis] different is God chose them.”
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan: “The idea that God chose the Jewish people leads to racist beliefs among Jews. Thus, it must be excised from Jewish theology.”
James Chandler: “[“God”] didn’t choose them because they were superior. He chose them to be the nation that brought God’s truth to the world.”
Yes, the distinctly anti-Jewish, idiotic and macabre belief that this so-called god’s “truth” will come about through nuclear war and the deaths of all but 144,000 of the world’s 15.7 million Jews. If it weren’t a religious impulse, those who harbor it would be universally ridiculed.
James Chandler: “Why is there so much hate for Israel? Simply put, God chose them.”
As evidenced by the fact that virtually the entire world votes against Israel concerning applicable U.N. resolutions, the dislike of Israel stems from its hideously antisocial behaviors. It’s the arrogant flaunting of UN resolutions, the dangerous disregard for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the material support of fascistic dictatorships throughout the world and the treatment of Palestinians as pack animals that make Israel a pariah state. It hasn’t anything to do with any mindless god delusion.
The terms “Zionism” and “settler colonialism” are lost on most people because capitalist media sources dutifully ignore them. But Vladimir Jabotinsky said, “Zionism is a colonization adventure,” which means that, from Zionism’s beginnings, the intent was to eliminate Palestinians from historic Palestine by any means necessary.
The United States, Western Europe, and the Zionist settler government in Palestine, with the passive consent of the United Nations Security Council, are conducting genocide in Gaza. And (everyone) who supports Israel’s so-called right to exist also supports this genocide.
One day, many of us will be asked, “What was your response to Israel’s genocide of Gazans?” Being on the side of humanity now will serve you then. Ridding oneself of the god delusion can only help.
Guy Marsh
Lancaster
Count only those who are citizens
Shouldn’t the US Census only count US citizens, not just warm bodies? If they did that, even the ultra-left-wing woke liberal Democrats would want a closed border, seeing as how they would not capitalize on illegal immigrants.
ABC “News” show “The View” talking head Whoopity (Whoopi Goldberg) says that Republicans are going to put slaves back in chains. I thought that the Democrats put them in chains and the Republicans set them free.
An illegal immigrant in Ohio tried to rob a bank using a translator app on his phone because he didn’t know how to say “put the money in the bag.” Isn’t California the home of all the computer technology stuff?
Why is it that the state of California government computers can’t seem to talk to each other? When they were handing out COVID unemployment supplement checks, they couldn’t tell who was in jail or who really was eligible to receive aid funds. The state secretary of labor, Julie Su, knew this and told them to send the money anyway. Only $33 billion was scammed from the EDD. Now she is the old fool in the White House’s acting Federal Secretary of Labor. What can go wrong?
EV auto maker Rivian is laying off again for the third year in a row. Sales predictions by the government are not coming true.
Steve Brewer
Rosamond
Do homework on electric vehicles
The text below is prompted by the Antelope Valley Press article, “On planes, trains and automobilesm… and trucks,” published April 4, authored by Mr. Stephen Moore.
Mr. Moore’s article is not friendly to the Biden’s administration’s efforts for using renewables, (i.e., solar and wind), as well as other alternate energy sources such as hydrogen fuel cell technologies. He only stresses the usage of current electrical grid power for powering pure battery powered vehicles.
I recommend that before Mr. Moore writes, he should perform his homework.
Automobiles: Parallel to battery only electric vehicles are hybrid EVs, and hydrogen fuel cell technologies powered vehicles. Today, the number of hydrogen fuel-dispensing stations is far less than charging stations. When this is corrected, HFC-powered vehicles will be more popular than pure battery EVs, because fueling durations are in minutes rather than hours, and driving range (distance between fillups) is twice as fare as pure battery EVs.
Trucks: Same above applies to trucks. HFC-powered cars and trucks are available today.
The USA Department of Energy, coupled with the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency, are beginning to form a network of HFC fueling/charging stations across the nation.
Trains: As stated in Mr. Moore’s article, I agree with the Association of American Railroads that pure battery powering is not feasible. That is why the state of California has purchased the first 36 HFC powered commuter rail powered passenger trains. The first USA HFC-powered commuter rail train applied to revenue service will begin operations between San Bernardino and Redlands, on San Bernardino County Transit Authority tracks, this fall. The train will begin testing on site in May. The first four of the 36 will begin service in 2027. In addition, HFC and pure battery-switcher locomotives are operating at Los Angeles ports.
In addition, in California, renewables are replacing fossil fuel-fired power plants, thus California’s electrical grid is becoming “green,” and hydrogen fuel plants are being established to service HFC trucks and trains.
Gordon V. Jefferson
Lancaster
Body count is result of strategy
Remember the song “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones? Since the October attack on Israel, that’s what’s been occurring at Ivy league campuses.
Western sympathizers, who consider themselves smart, chant, “From the river to the sea,” aligning themselves with the devil, Hamas.
But Hamas is no friend of Palestine. Let me explain.
Recently, I found an old video of President Bil Clinton (May 13, 2006) informing his audience that Hamas embeds themselves in highly populated areas on purpose, in order to position Israel into killing civilians.
So there you have it. The Palestinian body count is a result of a strategy. Of course, you don’t have to take President Clinton’s word. As for me. I won’t be joining Iran’s global pogrom.
Robert Mc Gregor
Palmdale
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