tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722983037748858194.post2394571578671729814..comments2023-10-26T06:04:04.232-07:00Comments on A DOCTOR IN GALILEE: War Crimes in Gaza: My Correspondence with the Head of the Israel Medical Association on the MatterHatim Kanaaneh, MD, MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785615655648864209noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722983037748858194.post-15024353968665611702009-02-07T11:58:00.000-08:002009-02-07T11:58:00.000-08:00I just read through this correspondence. It is a ...I just read through this correspondence. It is a disturbing, and enlightening, read. It is disturbing in that the head of the IMA employs the typical (ergo, political, in the sense that Zionism has political, militant and other dimensions) Zionist tactics of personal smear, diversions, etc., to draw attention away from the issue at hand: genocide against a helpless, basically defenseless, captive population engulfed in a pogrom imposed on it of decades-long evil and constant intensity. (The intensity is periodically heightened to the point of explosion in order to relieve the psychotic pressures which build, and build, and then are released to serve the insane bully's purposes; e.g., Lebanon, 1982; the OPT, 2000; Lebanon, 2006; Gaza, 2008-9.)<BR/><BR/>Dr. Kanaaneh's humanitarian concerns as a medical professional are immediately apparent. The head of the IMA's lack of concern is as apparent, and in fact, he presents himself as a party to genocide and as a political shill to the unrelenting Zionist enterprise. The head of the IMA of course could not -- as he politically blames any other than his psychotically deranged Zionism, as he points his finger outward rather than inward -- assign blame for the invidious theft of Palestinians' land all through the 20th Century, culminating in the Nakba of 1947-1949, its continuing and ongoing manifestations of land theft, water theft, the theft of freedom and dignity...indeed, the theft of truth itself. The sadist mentality of the head of the IMA has been exposed. I deplore him, I condemn him as I deplore and condemn his ideology of colonialism, exclusivity, extreme cruelty, occupation of others' lands, continual assassinations of fellow human beings, etc., etc.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Dr. Kanaaneh, for contributing to the further education of a member of the human race. Your seminal book, "A Doctor of Galilee," does and will always shine for me as the epitome of honor, principled truth, steadfastness in the face of incredible pressures...and exposure of the despicable hypocrisies of small persons and diabolical enterprises.Bob from Hawaiihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16121798576569507638noreply@blogger.com