‘US deepens complicity in Israeli atrocities’
The US decision to increase its annual military aid to Israel by as much as $1 billion, on top of the current $3.1 billion, has raised new questions about Washington’s role in the Middle East conflict.
Press TV has put the issue to debate with international analysts, with one New York-based author and activist saying the decision deepens US culpability in the fresh spate of Israeli violence against the Palestinians.
“The US is complicit in what is happening in the West Bank, Gaza and the occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds) right now" as Washington is backing Tel Aviv militarily and financially, Donna Nassor said on “The Debate” Thursday night.
She touched on the massive support platform in the US for Tel Aviv and its actions, citing the main pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, the American Congress and special interest groups.
Nassor said they are all to blame for the Israeli “atrocities” against the Palestinians who are only fighting for their rights.
“They (the Palestinians) are fighting for the ability to have their human rights respected, which has not happened since before 1948,” she said.
“The Palestinian civil society deserves to be heard and the Palestinians deserve the simple thing that they want. They want peace. Palestinians just want their human rights; they do not want this to continue," she added.
Nassor brushed aside her opponent on the panel, journalist and political commentator in New York Maxine Dovere, who said Israel was defending itself against the Palestinian violence.
She said it is rather the Palestinians who are fighting every day the “closures, the checkpoints, the Jewish-only roads, the extrajudicial killings, the theft of land, the displacement and abuse”.
“So Israel is not defending itself; Israel is the perpetrator, Israel is the occupier.”
Dovere said, “The Palestinians need to acknowledge the existence and the right to exist of the Israeli Jewish state.”
On balance, however, the Israelis need to assist in the development of a peaceful, demilitarized Palestinian state, she added.
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