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It’s vacation time, and people temporarily disengage from the
political razzmatazz for more pacific exploits. But this summer
will mark an important, nay, fateful choice in interlinked
destinies of America and Palestine. You should not miss it.
Ode to Cynthia
By
Israel Shamir
Things must be bad indeed if a woman steps forward to the line
of fire. Nature arranged that a woman does not court danger
unless her land and her folks are in real trouble. But when she
does, she teaches men a lesson of manly behaviour.
When France was fading away, a shepherd girl Jeanne d’Arc took a
heavy sword and led the flower of French nobles to assault the
walls of Orleans. When cities of Republican Spain was strafed by
the Nazi Luftwaffe, it was a woman, Dolores Ibarruri, La
Pasionaria, who said to her people: it is better to die tall,
than to live on your knees. In 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev led
his country to disaster and disintegration, a year before the
wealth of Russia was embezzled in privatisation spree, only one
person has dared to raise her voice against the dictator in the
parliament. She was the indomitable Sashie Umalatov, an MP from
the Chechen Mountains.
Now it is the turn of the US to feel the chilly wind of eternity
on its face. It came from unexpected direction. People of
America became hostage in the hands of a few men with too many
dollars in their pockets and endless greed in their hearts. For
millennia, the difference of income, education, and standard of
living was not so vast in one land. The wealth of the nation
could provide every American with a superb education, perfect
medical care, happy childhood, secure old age, guaranteed home,
and free time to open one’s mind to new thoughts and old
friends. America could be on its way to the Golden Age of
universal happiness and wisdom.
Instead of it, a small group of men squeezes the nation in order
to add another billion to their coffers. They would surely
destroy the US by their limitless greed. The devotees of Mammon,
they are totally devoid of compassion to the people they live
amongst. They do not see the local people as ‘their own kind’.
If they want to show compassion, they send money to Israel. Out
of five dollars American taxpayer gives for aid, four dollars
land in the coffers of the Jewish state. They appear
unstoppable, as the politicians are scared of them and docilely
raise their hands and sign the pledge promising to send more
money to Israeli generals. Support of Israel is not a foreign
policy. It is the covenant of the Mammonites, and you sign it
with blood. With Palestinian blood.
But one woman refused to sign the pledge. One woman, Cynthia
McKinney, a member for Georgia, dared to refuse. Four hundred
congressmen signed it; they preferred their own personal
advancement to the good of the country. Ancestors of Cynthia
were slaves in her native Georgia. But she is one of a very few
free persons in the US Congress. As we Israelis were used to say
about our Golda Meir, she is the only man over there. She is a
black woman, but she is the whitest man of them all, they would
say before the Politically Correct era. She knew the billions of
Israeli aid are needed for the poor people of the United States,
for her own Afro-American community. She wanted to uphold the
sovereignty of the people and congress of the United States, in
face of encroaching servility to the Jewish Lobby.
She is not alone. Another wonderful Afro-American congresswoman,
Barbara Lee, cast the only vote against the slaughter in
Afghanistan; John Conyers, Jessie Jackson Jr, and Maxine Waters
supported the cause of Palestine on different occasions. Ron
Paul of Texas voted against all-house resolution sending
obsequious greeting to General Sharon. Nick Rahall, John Sununu,
David Bonior did not bend.
Cynthia was just more outspoken in seeing the evil. She said ,
“There are many Members of Congress who want to be free. I am
one of them. I wanted to be free to vote according to my
conscience, but I had been told that if I didn't sign a pledge
supporting the military superiority of Israel, no support would
come my way. And sure enough, I didn't sign the pledge and no
support came my way. I suffered silently year in and year out,
because I refused to sign that pledge. And then, like a slave
that found a way to buy his freedom... I went to work ... I
wanted to be free ... Free to cast the votes in the United
States Congress as I saw fit and not as I was dictated to”.
Now she stands for re-election, and her chances are dim, as the
frightful AIPAC, the spearhead of the organised Jewish
community, targeted her. They do not want to see independent and
free congressmen on the Capitol Hill. Their huge financial
might, network of connections in the media and universities are
used to smother every free voice. They succeeded to unseat Earl
Hilliard, another Black Congressman, who did not bow to Sharon,
and now plan to do Cynthia in. If they succeed, the cause of
freedom will suffer a huge setback. If she succeeds, the myth of
Jewish omnipotence will evaporate, and America will look towards
better days, as support or rejection of segregated Israel speaks
volumes about true agenda of a candidate.
Cynthia is not ‘against Jews’, as there are many very good folks
of Jewish origin. While the organised Jewish community
implements quite a disgusting policy, in domestic and foreign
affairs alike, there are wonderful outsiders, ‘the remnant of
Israel’. Rejected by the community and rejecting it, they stand
for integration in Palestine and in the US. Some of them have
supported Cynthia’s campaign; another outsider manages her
campaign. Through them, ‘you will be blessed by all people’, the
Lord’s promise to Abraham is made true.
I am not sure whether Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun,
a “Progressive Jewish monthly” from California, will be equally
blessed. Rabbi Lerner has spoken in support of Cynthia McKinney,
but demanded in return to “call for Israel to be given either
membership in NATO or a mutual defence pact with the U.S.” Such
a support defeats its purpose. As if the military and political
US backing of the racist Jewish state were not sufficient,
Lerner wants to establish it in law. Cynthia openly spoke
against hegemony of the Zionist Lobby, against Israel
connection. Lerner offers to achieve the purpose of the Zionist
lobby under pretence of fighting it. This sophisticated cunning
is not unusual for crypto-Zionists, acting as deep penetration
agents outside their milieu, and Lerner already has performed a
similar task for the Zionists during Durban Conference . Next
time, he will fight heroin addiction by demanding the drug to be
sold in every shop. Cynthia and other congressmen should accept
his offer of help for what it is worth, but reject his demand of
political payoff to Zionists.
Cynthia’s is not a divisive voice of Blacks vs. Whites, nor
Democrats vs. Republicans, neither Left against Right. She
speaks for the people of the US against foreign interests. She
is the congresswoman who dared to remind of the USS Liberty
seamen, butchered by Israeli heavy machine guns and missiles.
She reminded her audience of the last stand of Faris Ode, the
brave Palestinian kid who faced the Israeli tank with a stone
and was murdered. She stands against corporate greed. She stands
for the nature deemed expendable by the Greedies.
This woman with a name from the love lyrics of Propertius, the
delicate Greek poet, who called himself ‘a pale knight in thrall
of my angry Cynthia’, is an all-American figure, brought forth
by the spirit of America. The great country does not want to
die. In such moments, the land calls for its sons and daughters
to step forward to the line of fire. Cynthia heard the call.
Support of Cynthia is the ultimate test of love to America, of
belief in America’s future in the family of nations, as an equal
and friendly nation, not as an enforcer for creed of Greed.
It is paramount to rally around her, as the French nobles
rallied to Jeanne d’Arc. Whether you are a descendant of African
slaves or Muslim immigrants, a son of Confederacy or a Daughter
of American Revolution, a freedom-loving Jew or a born-again
Christian - it is the time to unite for Cynthia and for America.
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