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Taxes To Israel
By Monica Simon, Burlington Free Press 10/29/2003
Next April, when it's time to pay my taxes, I may write my check directly to Ariel Sharon. Why go through his eunuchs in Washington.On the "For" line, I'll write, "For the Israeli persecution against the Palestinian people:"The 36-year illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank defying 70 U.N. resoolutions, holding 3.5 million Palestinians in brutal subjugation; 594 children murdrered; 4,000 houses demolished (where do you think the kids get those rocks to throw?); five million olive trees bulldozed, making families homeless, jobless and hungry on their own property."Five hundred illegal Israeli settlements; military road blocks preventing travel to schools/doctors/hospitals; dropping bombs on apartment buidlings filled with women and children; using scarce water to fill the settlers' swimming pools while Palestinian families are rationed water for cooking, bathing and feeding livestock. "Curfews called on and off at a moment's notice, giving Israeli soldiers the right to shoot anyone for 'violating' curfew; those same soldiers barging into Palestinian homes in the middle of the night, vandalizing and smearing feces around, and forcing adolescent boys to strip naked while making their mothers and sisters watch. "Let's not forget the concrete fortress 'Berlin Wall times four' Sharon is building on confiscated Palestinian lands."We Americans support this persecution with $14 million a day aid to Israel.I am outraged!
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