Palestinians vs. Americans

We urge you to end the Israeli occupation of Congress!

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The title of this piece is purposely misleading. There is no face-off between Palestinians and Americans, the peoples that is. The Palestinian people have no grudge against the American public. We never did.

As a matter of fact, if one can see past the well-oiled media spin and take a closer look at what the Palestinians have been struggling for over the last seven decades — not to mention the last fifty-two years while under Israeli military occupation — it would be clear that the Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is a classical American struggle.

After all, Palestinians simply yearn for national independence, civil liberties, human rights, as well as the right to establish their independent economy, integrated into a global economy and free from Israeli domination.

In short, Palestinians and Americans share many more values than Americans are led to believe.

The Palestinians are doing what any American citizen would do if they were faced with the same predicament: we are struggling for our rights. At times, some Palestinian individuals and organizations regretfully employ violence. This is sad but is a bitter reality of the environment that a prolonged foreign military occupation creates…