MISSING FACTS
(In response to the April 1 letter to the editor, “Protesting democracy?”)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is currently working on a heavy push to revive Hamas and Palestinian Authority relations.
This risks Abbas foregoing all foreign aid from the United States because the U.S. administration, the largest single donor to the Palestinians, considers Hamas a terrorist group and will withhold all funds if a unity government is created.
Never once did I hear outrage about the Palestinian Authority betraying their citizens to form a faction.
Also ignored was the fact that hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid comes to Gaza from Israel and that Egypt has completely closed off its border to the Gazan citizens.
I would love nothing more than for the citizens in Gaza to have a government that cared for their needs more than they did for Israel’s destruction. I would love for the Arab world to finally wake up and claim their “brothers.”
Unfortunately, when I attended the Apartheid Wall display, I didn’t hear a single cry for either of those messages. The sad reality is that none of the Arab countries want “Palestinian Arabs” in their country.
I’ve yet to hear any outcry on campus or presentations about Black September 1970 in which King Hussein of Jordan led a real massacre against Palestinians.
Depending on whose numbers you go by, up to 15,000 Palestinian militants and civilians were killed, the Jordanian army leveled tons of Palestinian towns and refugee camps, and between 50,000 and 100,000 people were left homeless.
If you want to talk about a refugee problem, let’s discuss this.
Andrew Gibbs
Statepress.com reader
