What History Teaches by Steve Tamari

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Leader of the Free World, Commander-in-Chief of the War on Terror, First African-American President, First Community Organizer in the White House  Barak Hussein Obama pronounces, “Israel has a right to defend itself.”

This, after Israeli forces...

Remove 750,000 non-Jews from their homes to create a Jewish state;

Invade Egypt with colonial powers Britain and France;

Occupy the remaining 25 percent of historic Palestine, 

While conquering the Golan Heights from Syria and the Sinai from Egypt;

Annex Arab East Jerusalem;

Assassinate PLO leaders from Rome to Tunis,

But mostly in Beirut,

Where poets Ghassan Kanafani and Kamal Nasser were gunned down;

Defy the Geneva Conventions and settle occupied territory;

Bomb a nuclear facility in Baghdad, Iraq;

Launch a full-scale invasion of Lebanon;

Occupy southern Lebanon for 18 years;

Build more illegal settlements; 

Kill (directly or indirectly) President Yasser Arafat;

Launch another full-scale invasion of Lebanon;

Fortify a land, air, and water blockade of Gaza,

A land of refugees;

Target kill Hamas leaders;

Bombard the most densely populated territory on earth for one month;

Assault unarmed civilian vessels carrying medical aid to Gazans;

Launch another air assault on Gaza and threaten a ground invasion;

O’ Supreme Protector of Human Rights, Democracy, and Freedom,

who has the right to defend itself?