Monday, February 23, 2009

A Flash from the Past

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel-Hamas arms embargo urged
Amnesty International has called for a freeze on arms sales to Israel and Palestinian groups such as Hamas following the recent Gaza conflict.
In 1940, when Stalin's Soviet Union was still aligned with Hitler, the Communist and their front organizations in the US supported the Neutrality Laws which prevented arms sales to both sides. From the Wikis:
The legacy of the Neutrality Acts in the 1930s was widely regarded as having been generally negative: they made no distinction between aggressor and victim, treating both equally as "belligerents"; and they limited the US government's ability to aid Britain against Nazi Germany. The acts were largely repealed in 1941, in the face of German submarine attacks and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Meanwhile, Hitler was getting war material from Stalin. The fact that Hitler betrayed Stalin (before Stalin could betray him) no doubt helped turn opinion on the left.

The goal here is to make it harder for Isreal to defend itself. Hamas will continue to get all the arms it needs. Is the PLO a group like Hamas? The article does not say. They do terror, too, don't they?

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