Drawing from their apparently bottomless pool of fair, balanced, non-anti-Semitic, hilariously inept writers, the Arab News finds a gentleman named “Dr. E.A. Richards,” who says the five Americans who died in the cafeteria at Hebrew University got what they deserved for being Jews.

As to the 5 American students that died, why weren’t they studying in the United States, at Yale, or Vassar, instead of being in a foreign country in which a genocidal war against Palestine was going on? If those students were, like many other such “American” students that go to work, study, live, or join the Israeli army, then they must have known they would be in jeopardy.

Those students were in Israeli because their allegiance was to Israel, rather than to the United States, and this allegiance had consequences that should have been foreseen by them or their parents. It is said by some Israelis that the Americans who come to study or fight in Israel are more fervently Zionist than even those who were born there. And ever since the bombing at the Hebrew University, there has been a massive and continuos reporting by the media, unlike Gaza, with the catch phrase, “seven students were killed, of which 5 were American.” But where was the American media coverage to report that between March and May, since the Israeli jackboots attacked and occupied Palestine towns and cities such as Jenin, that the UN reported 497 Palestinians were murdered and another 1,447 were wounded.

It was not told because of reporters’ fears of retaliation from the pro-Israelis that control the US media, government, and finance, reporters like Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Jim Lehrer, Rush Limbaugh, Sam Donaldson, George Will, Bob Schieffer, Peter Jennings, and the rest of the kow tows to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Is it a truism, as some have said, that there is now a superpower in the world, the 51 United States of Israel-America, with its capital in Tel Aviv, and its supreme ruler Ariel Sharon, who tells George Bush (a good president until it comes to Israel) and the rest of the 50 states. What to do and what not to do, and making us pay to the nose for the advice. Perhaps we are closer to that horrid, unforgivable, distasteful, woeful and hapless condition than one would think. Wake up America! Wake up United Nations! Wake up World!

Stop the Israeli-Sharon-Zionist genocide in Palestine.

E.A. Richards is a fine example of the lofty standards of Arab journalism.