Betty McCollum (D-MN) recently introduced legislation, with (thus far) thirteen cosponsors and dozens of organizational endorsements, that has generated significant interest. The main gist of the legislation is to condition U.S. aid to Israel on Israeli adherence to international human rights standards. The interest derives in part from the fact that what can be considered “pro-Palestine” legislation is a rarity in the U.S. Congress. McCollum is bucking the near-complete fealty to Israel customary among her House and Senate colleagues.
Both the legislation and the public response are complex. I’ll try to sort through the complexities and offer a sense of what the Military Occupation Act (my shorthand) proposes to do and what McCollum aims to accomplish by introducing it.
First, the Military Occupation Act won’t pass. McCollum and its cosponsors don’t expect it to, so we need to understand it as a rhetorical intervention and as a long-term strategy. As a rhetorical intervention, the legislation wants to disrupt the paeans to Israel’s timeless glory embedded in congressional culture. As a long-term strategy, it wants to make a strong first move to create a groundswell of support for Palestinian human rights, one that might take decades to come into existence. McCollum has been at it for six years: in 2015, she sent a letter to John Kerry (cosigned by eighteen colleagues) urging respect for Palestinian human rights; in 2017 and 2019, she introduced legislation similar to her latest effort. The 2017 and 2019 bills never made it to a full House vote.
This series of legislation is a provocation by virtue of naming Israel as the offender. McCollum wants to reverse a deeply-ingrained image of Palestinian aggression. It might also be understood as an example to colleagues that it’s possible to withstand the viciousness of the Israel lobby.
A note before I proceed: although I once was optimistic about changing tides among U.S. politicians, I’m now loathe to conjoin (even obliquely) the movement for Palestinian liberation to any branch of the U.S. government. The USA is Israel’s sponsor and the notion of a Holy Land governed by Israel exists deep in the American psyche. The USA, like Israel, is a settler colony. The USA doesn’t fund Israel against its better judgment; Israel is useful to the United States. Both states work on behalf of ruling classes invested in a particular political order that suits their economic and ideological ambitions. It’s no good to deplore Israel’s behavior without a concomitant opposition to the USA’s own anti-Indigeneity and anti-Blackness (not mutually exclusive categories). That said, the Military Occupation Act is worth examining as a legislative and rhetorical document. It’s a peculiar entry into the usual business of Congress and delineates various sites of tension of interest to advocates of Palestinian freedom in North America. I will leave broader questions of utility and ideology to the reader.
What the Bill Says
McCollum doesn’t seek to defund Israel, or really to alter its status as a major U.S. ally. Instead, she wants to attach conditions to U.S. aid, which surpasses three billion dollars annually. Pro-Israel groups will consider those conditions outrageous. They vehemently oppose any restriction on aid.
The bill aims to “promote and protect the human rights of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation and to ensure that United States taxpayer funds are not used by the Government of Israel to support the military detention of Palestinian children, the unlawful seizure, appropriation, and destruction of Palestinian property and forcible transfer of civilians in the West Bank, or further annexation of Palestinian land in violation of international law.”
McCollum has produced an intricate document, one that appeals to mainstream sensibilities while also presenting some radical components. The bill heavily emphasizes the safety of children, which can be read in a few ways: as a concession to racist perceptions of Palestinian adults; or, conversely, as a tacit acknowledgment of Israeli brutality. (What kind of state, after all, harms children?)
McCollum cites various statistics illustrating that Israel’s treatment of children in the Occupied Territories is abominable. They are imprisoned in large numbers and sometimes tortured. They enjoy no due process or other legal protections. They are subject to chemicals and live ammunition. Every so often, she extends the criticism to include adult victims. The bill is a damning indictment of Israeli policy.
The document also presents strong evidence that Israel confiscates Palestinian property and imposes collective punishment on the millions of people it occupies. At one point, it notes, “Palestinian homes and structures located in Area C and East Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank are under constant threat of demolition from the moment construction begins and are often demolished with little notice.” These “punitive demolitions…create insecurity in the surrounding communities.”
McCollum condemns the “restrictive and discriminatory Israeli planning regime,” which “facilitates unlawful acts and policies, including destruction of property and forcible transfer of civilians, expropriation of land and natural resources, and illegal settlement expansion, and further annexation of Palestinian land.”
By the standards of U.S. political discourse, the bill uses forthright language: “military occupation”; “abuse”; “undemocratic system”; “act of aggression.” This language is of a piece with McCollum’s comments when she presented the bill: “I strongly believe there is a growing consensus among the American people that the Palestinian people deserve justice, equality, human rights, and the right to self-determination.” Depending on how one wants to interpret the terminology, this line is arguably stronger than anything thus far proffered by McCollum’s more celebrated democratic socialist colleagues.
The radical components of the bill are implicit. Conditioning aid to Israel on its human rights performance seems banal, but McCollum knows that Israel will never meet the requirements she puts forward—pro-Israel organizations know it, too. In essence, then, the bill endeavors to cut U.S. aid to Israel. It doesn’t, however, propose to abolish aid. Instead, it seeks assurance that the aid won’t be used to facilitate human rights violations (the Secretary of State will need to present an annual certification to Congress showing that Israel has followed the necessary provisions—the Comptroller General must do the same). Even if the bill passes, Israel will receive assistance. It will merely be subject to less assistance pending its performance in the contested arena of human rights.
The “Sense of Congress”
McCollum doesn’t seek to extricate Israel from the U.S. orbit of influence. Nor does she propose a specific outcome to the so-called “conflict” (which in reality is the subjugation of an Indigenous people by a colonial power). She doesn’t tie U.S. aid to a political settlement, but to Israel’s behavior in the Occupied Territories (the bill says nothing about Palestinian citizens of Israel). The bill is almost exclusively concerned with Israel’s behavior in the West Bank. It does not extend protection to refugees outside of the Occupied Territories, nor does it name the right of return as a human right.
The bill’s “Sense of Congress”—its rationale for going onto the docket—is vague, no doubt in an attempt to appease a hostile audience. McCollum offers boilerplate about brighter futures, along with the usual platitudes about the USA being a fair arbiter and an exemplar of democracy. Israeli human rights violations “undermine efforts by the United States to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
Dozens of assumptions, both hostile and favorable to Palestinians, can be read into this section of the bill. Pro-Israel groups will see nothing redeemable about it. For advocates of Palestinian liberation, the bill is notable for its careful and convincing documentation of Israeli abuses in the West Bank. Because it will not pass the House, people in the USA who identify with Palestine’s struggle are tasked with theorizing a set of implicit consequences.
The bill defers to U.S. authority in the Middle East and would rely on the State Department to identify and collate Israeli human rights violations. At the same time, it names specific procedures to document Israel’s activity (mainly human rights organizations). It offers those procedures in the service of lasting peace, which at least suggests that, contra mainstream narratives about the region, the occupied population isn’t at fault for the conflict.
What’s Next?
Again, I don’t want my editorial choices to be read as implicit endorsements or criticisms of McCollum’s enterprise. I’ve tried to be dispassionate in my assessment of the bill, which I consider a welcome development. The goal here was to read the 19-page document and highlight areas of interest to the Palestine solidarity movement. The bill is notable for its rhetorical sophistication, which is perhaps why McCollum could get both J-Street and Adalah to endorse it.
Among the newer members of Congress who have created excitement in certain leftist circles, cosponsors include Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Pramila Jayapal, has not yet come on as a cosponsor. Nor have progressive stalwarts Sara Jacobs, Mondaire Jones, Ro Khanna, Barbara Lee, Andy Levin, Jim McGovern, Jamie Raskin, or Maxine Waters. (Jayapal, Lee, and Waters cosponsored the 2019 version of the bill.)
If the bill gains traction, it is reasonable to expect opposition from prominent Democrats such as Jim Clyburn, Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
In the end, McCollum’s legislation isn’t the sort of thing to which we’re accustomed from the U.S. Congress. Much is left to the reader’s imagination, which is partly a byproduct of vague and contested terminology. When McCollum demands “justice,” for example, in whose image does that term exist? Zionists will view the term as a great affront, which for the perceptive observer means that Israel is implicated in grave injustice. We cannot rely on observers to be perceptive, however, which is why it is our responsibility to avoid the ballyhoo and be clear about what justice does and does not mean to the Palestinian people.
“McCollum wants to reverse a deeply-ingrained image of Palestinian aggression.” It is very hard to overcome such an objective view. The murder of the Vogel, the suicide bombings, the carnage is so hard to erase.
The “Israeli Lobby” is “vicious” because there are so many antisemites out there disguising their hatred as anti-Israel activity. And the stakes are high. Remember the Holocaust when the Jews of the US were not “vicious” when demanding US action, action which never came.
We can always expect Tlaib and Ilhan, well known for their antisemitic utterances, just like President Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric, to cosponsor any anti-Israel bill. The day they do not will be a man-bites- dog story.
“The USA, like Israel, is a settler colony.” Really? Not a single Arab owner of property was ever removed from that land until the Arabs started a genocidal civil war in 1947. Israel is nothing like the US in that regard and it has never been a settle colonial state. That is just “progressive” hogwash.
Yawn.
Yes, the truth is very boring and most people sleep through its recital.
Unbelievable hogwash, your comment is. Not sure where you reside or how interested you are in facts, but it is normal to hear such shallowness coming from conditioned minds. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is well underway, and it is the end goal of Zionism : for Jews ONLY. Although Ethiopian Jews are also racially profiled in Israel (Google it). It’s proven, recorded, reported and is now in the hands of the International Criminal Court. Along with Hamas, Israel will be tried for war crimes.
Resistance is a human right, the right of return also, although for the most part Palestinians just want to live free from the terror that is systemic, nurtured and maintained by the IDF, including crimes against children, unarmed civilians, medics, Press, etc.
It takes a lot of effort to deny the evidence but some people do succeed in living with such blinders as have been blamed for decades as responsible for allowing the Holocaust. Now that the Palestinians are in the same situation (at the hands of a “nation-state for the Jews only”), we should not keep silent.
Good on Mrs McCollum. And on Steve for an overview of the bill that is very helpful in laying out this new attempt to hold Israel accountable for its digressions and transgressions. Sadly, History moves very slow, but this could contribute to draw attention to the plight of the PALESTINIANS, stuck in a merry-go-round of tit for tats, and the horrors daily committed by squatters/trespassers against Palestinian farmers and residents of the West Bank, under the eyes of the IDF and with its tacit support.
How could Israeli Jews NOT notice patterns of ethnic cleansing? Many Jews of the diaspora do and are speaking out against it courageously.
Of course it is. For some, the truth is certainly hogwash. Everyone wants to live free from terror. History has moved very slowly for you, so slowly that you missed it moving. The right of return for the Palestinian Arabs is a fiction. Just as the right of return for Germans to return to the Czech republic, Poland, and other places where the were “ethnically cleansed” after WWII. The difference between the Germans and the Palestinian Arabs is that the Germans recognize reality.
[Note to Steve – could you delete my other similar comment? For some reason there was an incomplete sentence left hanging. Thank you].
Mr Sigman, you seem to think very poorly of other people’s ability to think things through. Everything I shared here comes from Israeli Jews writings, books and recorded conferences. No hasbara can defeat truth, which you seem to not understand clearly. The Israel lobby is very fond of its puppeteering. Deception and deflection are its trademarks. Not honesty and candid self-awareness. Power is their main concern, not justice.
Reality: colonial enterprises all share the same traits: they abhor the Indigenous populations which they try to delegitimize and dispossess. And their pretentious apartheid regimes always come to an end.
Apartheid is very repugnant to many Jews, as they remember the Holocaust and would Never Again want to see similar atrocities inflicted on other people, especially at the hands of self-proclaimed Jews.
I’d also recommend doing a search in the Jewish Virtual Library to verify the demographics of Palestine from 1900 to 1950. Very telling.
I’ll try, but, as you can probably tell, the comments feature of WordPress is a mess. I don’t quite know how to work them–Steve
Andre,
It just appears that certain people have decided that a particular narrative, without investigation, is true. And that they base their comments on that narrative, despite the fact that it is not true.
That an Israeli Jew has written something does not make it true because it is written by an Israeli Jew. Both Shlaim and Pappé are proven liars, yet they are Israeli Jews.
Israel has never been a colonial enterprise. They did not delegitimize nor dispossess any Palestinian Arab land owner until the Palestinian Arab, and their allies, waged a genocidal war.
Apartheid should be repugnant to everyone. Israel certainly does not practice such.
I do not know any self-proclaimed Jews. Apartheid has nothing to do with the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the slaughter of the Jews because they were Jews. Apartheid was a political system to deprive South African Blacks of political power while exploiting them as inexpensive labor.
“Israel has never been a colonial enterprise. They did not delegitimize nor dispossess any Palestinian Arab land owner until the Palestinian Arab, and their allies, waged a genocidal war.”
Herzl contemplated a real-estate company that would hold land exclusively for Jews and hoped to coerce poor non-Jews to leave the state that would host the Zionist movement by denying them employment, both of which I’ve pointed out to you before.
https://stevesalaita.com/the-muslim-zionists/#comment-2808
Sure enough, the JNF put both ideas into practice:
“All of these terms, including the lessee’s rights, were subject to one over- riding condition, made explicit in the lease: the lessee must be Jewish. Accordingly, the land could not be leased to a non-Jew, nor could the lease be sub- leased, or sold, or mortgaged, or given, or bequeathed to any but a Jew. Non- Jews could not be employed on the land or even in any work connected with the cultivation of the land. Violation of this term of the lease rendered the lessee liable for damages to the lessor, and the third violation gave the lessor the right to abrogate the lease without any compensation to the lessee.56”
(Walter Lehn, The Jewish National Fund, Journal of Palestine Studies vol. 3 no. 4)
What would both policies look like once they had the official backing of a government? What would a sovereign state look like with such conduct? Don’t strain your brain too much.
Yes, Andrew, Herzl had some unusual ideas. It does not appear that any of them were illegal although they were not well thought out. Coercing the Arab resident to leave was not the plan, more like bribing them by providing relatively lucrative employment outside the Palestinian region such as in Lebanon and Syria.
As for Jews purchasing land for the exclusive use of Jews, while in this day and age we would consider it abhorrent, that was not the thinking in Herzl’s time.
However, when you consider the Arabs forced Britain to halt land sales to Jews (which Arabs continued to do at great profit) in 1939 and in 1947 started a genocidal war, the issues regarding land usage exclusions are quite minor and not worthy of the enormous strain that you endured, trying to prove a meaningless point.
“while in this day and age we would consider it abhorrent, that was not the thinking in Herzl’s time.”
Gee, you don’t say. How did Herzl and the JNF ever get the idea to reserve land exclusively for European migrants – almost as if the powers they hoped to get help from were doing the same thing. In any case, it looks like we agree on the high probability a Zionist state earlier in the 1900’s would’ve ran along the lines of Rhodesia, the Union of South Africa or the British protectorate in Kenya.
Andrew,
Not exclusively for European migrants, exclusively for Jews. “almost?” Not at all. Herzl’s plan was to buy the land, not appropriate as did almost all those who conquered the land of others, and that is the method use by both indigenous and non-indigenous conquerors.
The Jews migrating to the Palestinian territory conquered nothing until forced to become conquerors by the genocidal war thrust upon them by the Arabs.
It looks like we agree on nothing so far..
“there are so many antisemites out there disguising their hatred as anti-Israel activity” You only see so many anti-semites because of the IHRA definition; the _real_ anti-semites you and yours keep close for that sweet cash they give you . . . .
“Remember the Holocaust when the Jews of the US were not ‘vicious’ when demanding US action” You mean the wealthy and middle-class ones? They can be forgiven for not knowing (or not wanting to know) who the real anti-semites were (and might even be puking their spiritual guts out over what’s been/being done in their name; the socialists would be); what’s your excuse?
“Not a single Arab owner of property was ever removed from that land” Right! The Native North Americans have plenty of land right now, amiright?
“Israel is nothing like the US” True: the US officially dropped racist apartheid decades ago.
Fuck you, Sigman!
Antisemites, Reader, not anti-Semites. Semites are those who speak a “Semitic” language. The is no such thing as Semiticism.
I am certainly glad that you recognize the fact that no Jew ever removed an Arab owner of land in the Palestinian region until the Arabs started a genocidal civil war in 1947.
Wow, Siggie, you can read! Must be great having grown a frontal lobe . . . .
Can you read this? F-U-C-K O-F-F Y-O-U P-O-S
No wonder no one really sides with the Palestinian Arab narrative. Their spokesman is so limited.
.. “genocidal civil war” .. the dislocated narcissism of the logic, and the abuse of language, verges on psychopathic.
“It’s not rape if you allow it to happen! The real crime occurs in the resisting!”
“No mugger ever hurt his victim till she started struggling with her handbag!”
“The English should sue the Irish for the rotten potatoes they stole! No wonder they ran away in shame!”
Theodore,
The purpose of the Palestinian Civil War and the Arab-Israeli war was to kill Jews (thus genocidal) in the Palestinian region. Thankfully, the only competent Arab Army, the Transjordanian Arab legion, under the command of British Officers, had an unwritten arrangement with the Jewish Agency, limiting the scope and scale of the conflict.
In this case, the Jews were resisting the rapist. The Jews were resisting the mugger. It is not the fault of the Jews that the rapist and the mugger were idiots.
I do not know if you are a psychopath. I guess it depends on your reply if it is like “Reader’s”
Yawn
You basically admit that land theft has been part and parcel of the Apartheid State’s raison d’etre, since the Nakba. These organizations agree that it has: B’Tselem , Ta’ayush, Yesh Din, Gush Shalom, Zochrot, Yachad, Machsom Watch, Breaking the Silence, Jewish Voice for Peace, Rabbis for Human Rights, Kerem Navot, Mondoweiss, Parents Circle-Families Forum, Tarabut-Hithabrut, Open Hillel, Givat Haviva, Electronic Intifada, Ir Amim, Gisha, Bimkom, Center for Jewish Nonviolence, Samidoun, Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition (ICAHD), Sabeel, Kairos Palestine, If Americans Knew, Matzpen, Christ at the Checkpoint, Jews Against Genocide, American Jews Against Zionism, Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return , Activists around the world for Palestine (AAWP), Jews of Conscience, Adalah, al-Haq, al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Combatants for Peace, Basil, HaKibush, Jews say No, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Women Wage Peace, American Friends Service Committee, American Muslims for Palestine, Addameer, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Gisha, Tent of Nations, Seeds of Peace, Center for the Defense of the Individual, +972 Magazine, and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and more, are supporting the quest for justice , equality and full civil/human rights for ALL in Palestine. Not just for some.
Thank you for this amazing list, wow, and more – we are in good company. 🙂
I keep saying that 90% of everything I learned about this terrible situation, I learned from Israelis and Jewish people, in academia, the media and human rights organizations.
I wanted to be the first to respond, as I expect there will be some defiling nonsense and Beavis & Butthead’s snickering going on.
Peace.
Andre, so you are admitting that the Israelis and Jews that educated you were quite ignorant. Say hello to your Beavis & Butthead friends for me.
I admit that the Jewish Agency, later the government of the Jewish state of Israel, fighting a genocidal war waged by Palestinian Arabs, their allied voluntary Arab force, and the neighboring Arab states, decided to clear the Arab villages on the front lines as they were aiding the Arab fighters. Rashid Khalidi makes that clear.
I also admit that the government of the Jewish state was ready to compensate those Palestinians Arabs for their lost property, but as that meant recognizing the Jewish state of Israel, the vast majority refused, or they were ordered to refuse on pain of death. As you well know, the penalty for selling land to a Jew is death.
That you have some organizations that agree with you is nice, but meaningless.
Thanks Steve… to detail with the bill does and doesn’t do. Will circulate.. Best to you. Rob P.
Hi Steve,
Hope this can help (you can delete this one too after):
https://wordpress.com/support/comments/#comment-management
Regards,
Andre
Andre,
I think Steve has the ability to delete “Reader.” He just choses not to.
BTW, you wrote: “I think Steve has the ability to delete “Reader.” He just choses not to.”
I was asking Steve about no such thing. This is his page, his rules. I only asked him to delete my own duplicate message. Which he did.
Andre, were you under the mistaken belief that I was in anyway concerned with what you asked Steve?
Aww! You really like me, Sigman? So concerned about what our host will or won’t do to me?
Or is that just your Freudian slip flying up in your face?
Fuck you!
No. I do not care what Steve will or will not do with your posts.
Nelson Mandela on apartheid (he should know):
►”When in 1977, the United Nations passed the resolution inaugurating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, it was asserting the recognition that injustice and gross human rights violations were being perpetrated in Palestine.
In the same period, the UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians; without the resolution of conflicts in East Timor, the Sudan and other parts of the world.”
► “These Palestinian and Israeli campaigners for peace know that security for any nation is not abstract; neither is it exclusive. It depends on the security of others; it depends on mutual respect and trust. Indeed, these soldiers of peace know that their destiny is bound together, and that none can be at peace while others wallow in poverty and insecurity.”
Mr Sigman,
Deflection is not reflection. In your “zeal” to prove others wrong, you use the very juvenile device of dismissal, and therefore have abandoned common sense and forfeited your credibility. Maybe one day you will recover your humanity and stop being so dismissively arrogant just to impress yourself or your gallery.
I very much look forward to see Israeli leaders and military (I hear there are between 200 and 300 presently being briefed for that) testify before the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And for Zionism to be exposed for the monstrosity is has become. Zionists deserve a good dose of shame for what they have built in Palestine. Looking forward for the people Indigenous to Palestine (both Jewish and Arab) to see their land and their hands cleared from this reprehensible darkness.
I blame people like you for the scorn and hostility many of your people suffer around the world. But I know better than confuse all Jews for Zionists. Or all Zionists for Jews.
I came here to thank Steve for looking over Senator McCallum’s bill. So that will be the end of my intervention. You can have the last word, since I will not be engaging any further.
Good luck on selling your “book.”
Andre
OMG. Mandela said something. Must be important. In actuality, Mandela was just being a politician paying back for the support he received. In the high stakes game of “Third World” politics, one hand must wash the other.
My freedom is complete. Too bad yours is held up by decades of useless propaganda.
You may look forward and you may defecate in your left hand. It is likely you will be buried by what is in your left hand before any Israel official ever appears before the ICC except to testify as to Arab terrorism.
I blame people like you for the refusal of the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs to accept reasonable terms. After all, they are responsible for starting a genocidal war which they lost. That is the Nakba.
Don’t engage. It is for that reason the Palestinian Arabs will never know what freedom is like. They don’t engage.
“You may look forward and you may defecate in your left hand. It is likely you will be buried by what is in your left hand before any Israel official ever appears before the ICC except to testify as to Arab terrorism.”
Oh my word. This is a conversation that has been pulled into the gutter by a sheer sociopathic imbecile incapable of critical thinking, not worthy of engaging in a topic of this importance.
You’re just a mud-slinging provocateur. I’d suggest seeking professional help, sir. No credibility whatsoever. No big mystery your so-called “book” has 0 sales on Amazon.
Adios.
You must have missed all of “reader’s” posts.
As I just received another check for $3.10, my book must be selling and you must be lying. Of course, you did state that you “will not be engaging any further.” I guess you are just a “sociopathic” liar and a “mud-slinging provocateur.”
“You must have missed all of ‘reader’s’ posts.”
Don’t worry, you cockroach: Reader’s posts won’t ever miss you . . . .
Fuck you, Sigman!
Reader,
I almost missed your post. It is interesting that you are now using terms that suggest you have thoughts of committing genocide. Words matter.
“My freedom is complete. ”
Nnnooo . . . . You’re still alive . . . .
(PS: Fuck you, Sigman!)
Interesting threat.
Only right-wing Zionist paranoia would equate acknowledging the end of life as a threat (as if you’re important enough to waste a bullet on, much less the time it would take me to track you down and the time I’d likely spend paying for it). You’re gonna die someday, Siggie, and I’ll spare a chuckle at the pleasant fantasy of one more right-winger getting a just reward.
(And, yes, you and every Zionist like you are cockroaches: scurrying creatures that live in shadows and run when the lights get turned on.)
Next to you, reader, I am very important.
By the way, Palestinians ARE Semites. So, anyone who abuses Palestinians are “anti-Semites”.
They speak a Semitic language.
By the way. That is an old antisemitic canard. Antisemitism means hatred of Jews as a people, not hatred of people who speak a Semitic language.
“By the way” shouldn’t be separated from the main clause by a period; use a comma instead.
Still getting used to opposable thumbs, eh? Well, you keep at it . . . . >tolerant chuckle<
Fuck you, Sigman!
Thank you for the editorial advice. Too bad you do not have any knowledge that is meaningful.
Well, not meaningful to you at any rate, but you’re just . . . . Well, I’m not sure . . . . Some sort of garbage-dwelling insect that needs to be stepped on (repeatedly if needed) . . . .
Honestly, you do not have any knowledge that is meaningful.
Siggy wrote: “Next to you, reader, I am very important.”
You are, apparently, a useless academic as well as a cockroach: _everyone_ is more important than you . . . .
Now you are just being a troll. Good luck with that.