Letters to the Editor
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Dayenu
Ah, the old Likud canard: "disputed territories". Wrong, Occupied territories. Taken by preemptive military attack, maintained by brutal military force and fully subject to the Fourth Geneva Convention. Every Israeli settlement is a war crime, every Israeli settler is a war criminal.
As for ethnic cleansing, the Israelis have always been sort of half-hearted about it. The Irgun and Stern Gang conducted a pretty viscious campaign of terrorism against Arab civilians in 1947 to make sure that the new Israel was as Arabenrein as possible, but they neglected a bunch of people south of Jerusalem. After partition, Israel expelled another 50-60,000 at gunpoint and dynamited more than 350 villages, but still left quite a number of others. All of this, as bad as it was, was at least within the context of the legal Israel.
Everything since 1967 is pure filth. Ethnic cleansing is exactly the right term. The land is stolen, settlements are built on it where only Jews may live and the rightful owners are jailed, tortured and murdered if they complain or protest. Oh, and then they and their families are called terrorists. Talk about rewriting reality.