About Palestine

From:  "Sam Ghandchi" <ghandchi@yahoo.com>
Date:  Thu Apr 18, 2002  2:06 pm
Subject:  About Palestine

For years, we spent all the energy to get Vietnamese opposition to get to
power. We made all the sacrifices from our lives to distribute the pictures
of casualties of Vietnam, to get the US to sign peace agreement. Today when
talking to the Vietnamese, we are ashamed to tell them that we are partly
responsible for the government they ran away from in boats many losing their
lives. It is not just enough to condemn imperialism. It is important what
alternative we are supporting. PLO has had three years. What have they done?
Did they create a democratic state? Did they grow a modern economy or they
just continued fighting in secret instead of developing relations and
growing the society and just wanted to get more land? If they were there
another ten years and got more land what would they do? And we cannot solve
this problem of their leadership for them. We can support the human rights
of Palestinians and Israelis but more than that, we should see what it is we
are helping. Just making sacrifices will not get the people anything.
Vietnam is before our eyes and not only the sacrifices of the Vietnamese
people, the sacrifices from the life of every individuals outside Vietnam to
make that happen thru demonstrations and protests and see what it is. Not
even any of the leftists would like to live in that place.