Monday, August 9, 2010

I really don't like where this is going...

More than sixty years separate us from the end of WW II and the memory of the Holocaust is still vivid in the hearts and minds of the survivors.
What happened was one of the greatest tragedy in human history and the World (except a small number of shitheads, but those will always exist, like diseases will always exist) is united in condemning that tragedy and making sure it won’t happen again (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#1951_to_2000).
From the ashes of a devastated people a nation emerged, but Israel since the beginning had problems to make co-existence with its neighbours a peaceful experience, let’s just say.
Most of the times, the international opinion couldn’t really make up its mind in what was happening: biased by millennia of abuses and discrimination in one hand, dodgy political involvement by the US and NATO on the other, it was really hard to point fingers and say without any doubt “that is the reason”...unless blaming it all on the PNA was enough to quench your thirst for truth.
Now that has changed: Israel is responsible for the Palestinian tragedy, for the death of nine persons trying to bring food and supplies where it's needed, for the starvation of children and for the attempt to lie to the World, saying that there is no need for humanitarian groups to bring any form of aid to the Strip, adding also that the use of military force on those trying to do so cannot be seen in any other way than a justified reaction against the attempt to bring weapon into Gaza.
An investigation is bound to determine if the shooting aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara was “legal”.
Nine (9) casualties on one side, some scratches on the other.
“[...]the soldiers on the Marmara showed great courage in fulfilling their mission and acting in self-defense against real-life dangers," Netanyahu said.
For the Israeli army a “real danger” is also a person in wheel chair standing in front of a tank, I’d like to point out: fifty-seven-year-old Kamal Zghair, a wheelchair-bound man was shot and then run over by IDF tanks on April 10 2002 as he was moving down a major road in Jenin equipped with a white flag.
And that’s just one of the many examples.
I don’t like saying it even though I think it’s so obvious by now that would be embarrassingly stupid not to point it out, but the US in the past century needed much lesser excuses to start wars all over the globe, “in the name of democracy and/or freedom”.
The fact that Israel has the atomic bomb (looks like everybody has the a- bomb now, I would not be surprised if the Vatican admitted it aswell...) appears not to be a concern either...
My question is this then: when that part of the world that don’t really like us (being so obvious that we don’t like them) decide that our policy with Israel can’t stand anymore, what’s going to happen? What's going to happen when not just religious extremists decide that we are evil, not because we don't share their ways but for our very actions? What could be the outcome then?...
...and I repeat: everybody seems to have the a-bomb.

1 comment:

  1. Very good article, thank you. I didn't know about Kamal Zghair before reading this.

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