Monday, March 16, 2009

Israeli Ambassador At Manhattanville.

In late February, the Israel Ambassador to the United Nations came to Manhattanville. The campus was filled with secret service and police force; why what did they think was going to happen, we always had ambassadors come to school, why this be any different, maybe because of the reaction to what occurred this past late December and early January. During this time more than 1000 Palestinians, mostly women and children living in the Gaza strip were killed all in order to accomplish the political goals of the existing israeli government to eliminate Hamas. 

After reading accounts from Al Jazeera and CNN I though i had sufficient background information to ask a question to this ambassador. Except like all the other questions it was only half answered. He stated how he believe we are dealing with moderates and extremist on the the arab side and that its the extremist that lead the Israeli continue with their asults, Thus i asked if he believes it a struggle almost arabs that are moderate and extremist what would he consider Israels tactics on Gaza, extreme or moderate, for example the accounts of the use of white phosphorus and the shelling of a united Nations school. Sadly i did not receive an answer but rather a reaction that completely did not acknowledge the comment on white phosphorus and denied the United Nations school incident. 

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