wellknown Zionist), the army of Israel aimed its rockets at houses in which children slept. That is a hard sentence. Perhaps one should repeat it to oneself. The Israeli government murdered some 300 Palestinian children; Hamas murdered a 7 year old Israeli boy.

Internationalism as in the Abraham Lincoln and European brigades that fought the fascists in Spain (Franco armed by Hitler) between 1936 and 1938 is one of the great and noble forces of the last century and of the modern world. The Lincoln brigade was half-black; more than half of its 3,000 members, barely armed against Franco and harassed by the U.S. government, were killed by the fascists. The surviving heroes returned to the United States of America to be stigmatized by the House Unamerican Activities Committeenot, 50 were beaten and arrested. One who escaped arrest was Ann Wright, a career military officer and American diplomat, who was one of three people who resigned because of the Bush-Cheney aggression in Iraq. Her words are also below.

Sheehan points out that today is the sad anniversary of the massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890 by the US government. The Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine. Ben Gurion and other Israeli leaders saw them as the American Indians or the blacks of apartheid South Africa. They could be “transferred” and persecuted, and the international community would remain silent.

Many Jews have thought (Uri Avnery, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt inter alia) that such policies were criminal from the beginning. Jews needed a place to settle