The Holy Lands
By Dwayne Hunn
The Holy Lands, a grandfather in world history, rages
with segregation’s violence and ignites international terror.
America, a
juvenile in world history, is expected to stop the bloodshed and spreading
terror.
Israelis, surrounded by antagonists, are a minority
involved in reconstructing what were once Palestinian lands. Keeping Israel’s arms buffed has been our
answer to restraining antagonists from destroying a minority we admire.
In America, arms don’t guide society -- laws do. Israel and Palestine’s legal history allows
them to understand that laws can do more for their societal interchanges than
can tanks and stones.
America didn’t become the world’s strongest power by
dedicating spending on overpowering armaments.
We first spent on education, which produced the economic infrastructure
that enabled the world’s mightiest military.
We should rely on our brief history in order to dose
the long Holy Lands’ Terror Wars.
About 100 years after our Civil War, we enacted The
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA) to:
·
Protect
constitutional rights in public facilities and public education.
·
Prevent
discrimination in federally assisted programs.
In 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
(BBE) stated: “Separate educational
facilities are inherently unequal.”
With
the marriage of CRA and BBE, we educated the kiddies’ corps that dismantled
segregation's violent culture. Kids,
educated into adults, along with
CRA empowered cops and attorney generals strengthened our educational
infrastructure that grew our economy.
The Holy Land needs this marriage.
To consummate the
nuptials, Uncle Sam, from his congressional reception hall, must attach dowry
strings.
From 1949-2001, U.S. aid betrothed to Israel
totaled $100 BILLION. For the last
quarter century, annual aid has averaged $3 billion to Israel’s 6.7 million
citizens.
Most of our aid to other
nations is distributed in quarterly payments and for specified purposes. Aid to
Israel is given in one lump, deposited in their General Fund where they collect
the interest, and used as they see fit.
Increasingly, those billions update the world’s forth-strongest
military, quell Palestinian unrest, establish or fortify segregated
settlements, and build walls and private Israeli roads. American tax dollars intended for nation
building are increasingly paving a region’s road to segregation.
In Palestine
there is one university, in Israel eight.
In 2001 about 50,000 Palestinian students could not get to school,
at least 3 schools were occupied by Israeli soldiers and turned into military
camps; over 2,000 students were injured and 137 killed on their way to or from
school; many schools had no or few textbooks.
Three years later, this extremist-producing environment is worse.
In America, on
the other hand, integrated education erases racial violence and hatred. In the Holy Land, we ought to do unto others
what we have done unto ourselves:
Consequently,
the next administration ought to tell the Holy Land’s peoples this:
America’s
2005 Israel aid budget will be restructured.
Next year 5% of our Israel aid, roughly $150
million will be escrowed to integrating educational programs. Our history has taught us that education and
integration works; warring and segregating doesn’t.
With these escrowed funds, we are anxious to:
build state of the art schools, recreational facilities, and universities;
staff them with Peace Corps volunteers and teachers; establish college
scholarship funds for graduates of these integrated Palestinian and Israeli
schools.
We will help both nations quickly prepare for
this foreign aid change, for we anticipate escrowing another 10% in the 2006
budget for integrated community development.
Our foreign aid must:
o
Protect
constitutional rights in public facilities and public education.
o
Prevent
discrimination in federally assisted programs.
Our history taught us that children schooled together do not violate
each other. They become adults building
a healthy, peaceful community.
Golda Meier once
said,
"There
will be no peace in the Middle East until the Arabs love their children more
than they hate the Jews."
Jews and Arabs
love their children. Our aid must help
those children live a wholesome, not blood and terror ridden, life.
Dwayne Hunn,
Ph.D.
359 Jean St.
Mill Valley,
Ca 94941
415-383-7880
attila@myexcel.com
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