[CIMC-work] Pulling the graphic in question.

[DickReilly at aol.com]

Actually, it is attached to an article posted by the Iraqi resistance support 
network....which included reference to events in Palestine as well.  

( why jpegs loaded with article articles continue to be cycled for gallery 
display above the wire is a mystery to me) 

But, it is brutally disturbing. The question we - and Dan LB - should be 
asking is why? Is it anti-semitic and racist? A fair assessment only if you assume 
that the flag of the State of Israel and the Jewish people are actually 
synonomous. IMHO, the appropriation of a widely recognized and venerated religious 
symbol - the shield of David - for incorporation into a national state emblem 
was an outrageous and cynical move by the founders of Israeli state to assert 
the Zionist political  claim to represent the entire Jewish people...which 
they don't,  as Don accurately  pointed out. Nor can it mitigate the racist and 
apartheid character of  that regime and the reactionary ideology that underpins 
it. For Palestinians living under Israeli occupation , this flag  has become 
a hated and feared symbol of raw, unrestrained and abusive state power. How 
many of us would feel the same degree of discomfort if a Nazi symbol were 
attached to the US flag  - a symbol for many around the world of an equally brutal 
and repressive government? An image, I'd [point out,  that has often appeared 
on the wire.   

Food for thought. 

- Dick 

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