| You are shocked, shocked by Israel`s political violence and occupation. Of course you are. Within a few months of the military coup in which General Suharto seized power in Jakarta in 1965, the army and allied Muslim groups had murdered over half a million suspected members of the mostly unarmed Communist opposition, in "one of the worst mass murders of the twentieth century."(Kiernan, Blood and Soil, Yale U. Press, 2007, p. 578). A decade later, Indonesia launched a military campaign into East Timor; "the victims now were of another nationality and religion." (ibid.). Possibly 150,000 people disappeared in the next four years. (ibid.) Indonesia singled out members of Timor`s ethnic Chinese minority of 20,000 for "selective killings"; on the first day of the invasion of East Timor alone 500 of them were killed; "soon surviving Chinese in the territory numbered only `a few thousand.`" (ibid., p. 580). Israel and its history should be the least of your worries. |
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