THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINE – COL. DAVID ANTOON
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
OpEdNews, PA
June 1 2007
Col. David Antoon graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in
1970 and served nearly three tours of duty in Vietnam. During his tour
of duty in that war zone he received 3 Air Medals, the Distinguished
Flying Cross and the Meritorious Service Medal. He retired from
the Air Force in in the early 90s and now flies a 747 for a major
airline. He has received two graduate degrees and has lived in the
Middle East and has traveled extensively around the world, including
the middle east. His last job before retiring was oversight of part
of the construction of the B – 2 Bomber.
In the early 80s Col. Antoon became a father, he and his wife, Linda,
a former AF Major and neonatal ICU nurse, have four children and it
was fatherhood that made him revisit the issues he had encountered
while first in the military.
Those issues brought him to confront national policy, the use of war
to subsidize corporations, how our money is spent, and the genocide
that is presently being carried out against Palestine. His oldest
daughter, a Fulbright Scholar, is studying maternal child health
issues in the Middle East.
All of us know about the genocide that took place in Nazi Germany;
some of us know about the genocide visited on the Armenians in the
opening years of the 20th Century and other blood baths that have
been carried out for political purposes across the face of the globe.
But how many of us are aware that today in Palestine another genocide
is underway? Carried out under cover of euphemistic media coverage,
carefully worded to disguise an agenda of death, thousands are dying
slowly, blown to bits. Children are targeted, shot, maimed. Using
a terror that makes Nazi Germany look mannerly and compassionate,
lives are being snuffed out coldly as part of a long term plan to
eliminate a nation from the face of the Earth.
Will we continue to tolerate a genocide in our midst? What can a
father do to stop it? What can a father do when that genocide is
distorting the world for the children he loves? One father answers
that and other questions.
Hear Col. Antoon Friday, June 1, at 4pm Pacific Time on the Spiritual
Politician at BBSRadio.com
gspot.com
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of
America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the
lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The
latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather.
Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater
Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active
in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party
officer until she left the Libertarian Party in 1988.
She is also the the founder of the the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
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