NETANYAHU – TRY TO BE HUMAN!

A Vital Message from Citizen Paul about the Entire Secretive Government of Israel and the Tragedy They are Bringing Down Upon the Jewish People

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On Monday evening, March 22, you, Mr. Netanyahu, will address the AIPAC policy conference in Washington DC. Your address will be significant because you are coming on the heels of a disastrous week in Israeli/U.S relations. The “JERUSALEM FIASCO” is of your own making, either out of incompetence or cold-hearted calculation. The insulting announcement of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, while Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel to announce a new peace initiative, was a provocation and slap in our face that you, Mr. Netanyahu, must bear all responsibility for.

Your duplicitous Interior minister sabotaged the peace process before it even got started. And you allowed it!

While the dust settles from this diplomatic fiasco, we have a challenge for you, Mr. Netanyahu. Since you’re coming to Washington, where I’m sure you expect to be treated with the dignity you denied Vice President Biden while in your country last week, we have the following suggestions for you, in the form of simple challenges.

WE CHALLENGE YOU, Mr. Netanyahu, to first of all apologize to the American people for insulting and embarrassing our vice president while he was a guest in your country. We expect to hear you say that treating a loyal and steadfast friend with such casual disregard and condescension is a breach of trust, and that you apologize to each and every one of us. When you insult our leaders, you’re insulting all of us as well.

With that said, here’s the hard part. Here’s the real challenge. You’re coming to address AIPAC, your bullies-in-residence in our country, but you’re also coming to mend fences. You need us and our money and our military muscle. You also need the AIPAC crowd and the zealots of the settlement community who helped put you in power.

WE CHALLENGE YOU, Mr. Netanyahu, to come down off that fence you’ve been straddling forever and take a courageous stand for peace and justice, once and for all. It’s time to stop trying to have it both ways. That game is over. Your stupidity and insensitivity last week in Jerusalem ended that charade forever.

You’ve been ‘talking the talk’ forever about wanting a just and lasting peace settlement with the Palestinians, but you’ve never actually ‘walked the walk.’ Now is the time. We’re calling you out once and for all.

WE CHALLENGE YOU, Mr. Netanyahu, to reject the destructive and barbaric policies of your ultra-orthodox coalition partners and the settlement movement, and their relentless, illegal and rapacious hunger for Palestinian land.

WE CHALLENGE YOU to immediately end the inhumane blockade of Gaza! The GOLDSTONE REPORT has revealed the brutality your forces inflicted on those impoverished people a year ago, and the punitive blockade you’ve had in place ever since has only worsened their plight. Open the borders and let them rebuild!

WE CHALLENGE YOU to put the long-term security of all Israelis above your own political survival. By embracing the two-state solution, and the land-for-peace arrangements it would require, you will no doubt be hounded and rejected by your hard-line coalition partners and your government will collapse. So be it. Doing the right thing for Israel and the Palestinians will, in the long run, be the most honorable thing you have ever done. The end of your political career will become your historical salvation.

WE CHALLENGE YOU to freeze all settlement construction indefinitely, and to move forcefully to dismantle all illegal outposts in the occupied territories.

WE CHALLENGE YOU to remove the humiliating and debilitating network of checkpoints throughout the West Bank, which enslave and harass the Palestinian people at every turn of their daily existence. Stop treating them like cattle to be herded.

WE CHALLENGE YOU to dismantle the security wall, which ultimately serves only to wall you off from the rest of the civilized world and your own humanity.

WE CHALLENGE YOU to stand before the AIPAC crowd and say these words.

“From this night going forward, I pledge to you that Israel, under my leadership, will tear down the barrier to peace and will work tirelessly to reach an honorable and just accommodation with our Palestinian brothers and sisters. My days as prime minister may be numbered, but my determination will be relentless. It is my intention to take Israel to a new level of prosperity and security by working to create the independent state of Palestine. It is my intention to atone for our past behavior, which we cannot change, by guaranteeing a better tomorrow – a future we will share with our Palestinian brethren.”

What will be the destiny of your own choosing, Mr. Netanyahu? Will you go down in history as a mediocre and visionless prime minister or will you find the moral courage within yourself to do the hard and honorable things while there is still time?

We’ll all be listening to your AIPAC address for the answer.