SCOTT RITTER

“We’ve killed far more Arabs than Israel ever has. The United States is fully capable of killing Arabs anytime, anyplace. We never hesitate to kill Arabs. We don’t need Israel to kill Arabs. What we need Israel to do is create a force of instability in the region. It’s easy to kill Arabs; we do it on a daily basis.

We can starve them to death; we can blow them up with bombs – we’ve done it.

We’ve killed millions of Arabs – far more Arabs have died because of the United States than because of Israel.

We kill Arabs better than anybody in the world; we’ve proven that, and we can prove it again if we want to.

[Why have we killed Arabs?]

Because we don’t care about them; they’re not people to us. Look at the terms we use – we call them ‘ragheads,’ we call them ‘sand… you know what.’ We speak of them derisively.

We disrespect their religion; we have no appreciation for their culture, and we don’t view them as human beings, whether they live far away or even here at home.

How many Americans have actually gone out to a mosque to meet the local imam and speak to his followers? How many Americans have actually reached out to a Palestinian-American community or a Syrian-American community to say, ‘Hey, we’d like to get to know you more’?

I have. I’ve been invited into their homes, to restaurants, to sit down and break bread with them.

These are amazing people. These are human beings.

And once you realize that, you realize how evil our policy is towards the Middle East, because we treat them like human animals – just like the Israelis do.

Madeleine Albright didn’t blink when she was told that U.S. sanctions killed 500,000 – half a million – Iraqi children. And she said that was a price we were willing to pay. That tells you everything you need to know about how the United States views Arabs. When we’re willing to tolerate the death by starvation and disease of half a million Iraqi children to fulfill our policy objectives, it means we have no regard for Arab life.”