ISRAEL: DE SCHANDDAAD VAN HET BRITSE IMPERIUM
Viering Balfour Declaration
November a.s. is het honderd jaar geleden dat de minister van Buitenlandse zaken Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) een brief stuurde naar de bankier en voormalig Conservatief parlementslid Lionel Rothschild waarin de Britse regering haar steun toezegde aan de oprichting van een "nationaal tehuis" voor het Joodse volk in Palestina (dat op dat ogenblik nog een deel is van het Ottomaanse Rijk). Mevrouw Theresa May de Britse premier heeft het plan dit 'heugelijke' gebeuren met trots en vreugde te vieren en uiteraard de Israëlische premier hierbij uit te nodigen.
zie ook Verax dinsdag 25 juli 2017
Terreur in het Midden Oosten
Wanneer er opnieuw een 'terroristische aanslag' wordt gepleegd verbaast het mij elke keer de interpretatie die men voor het gebeuren heeft. George W. Bush was de eerste die met de onzinnige verklaring "zij zijn jaloers op onze welvaart en onze waarden" kwam toen de Twin Towers werden neergehaald.
For Bush, terrorists constituted not a conspiracy or a criminal gang but the very embodiment of evil. He insisted that there could be no purpose, no rationale, and no explanation for their actions apart from sheer malevolence. The “evil ones,” the president said, are people who “have no country, no ideology; they’re motivated by hate.” For Bush this war was not, as Clausewitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz would have it, an extension of politics, but a moral imperative that transcended politics. As foreign policy scholar Andrew Bacevich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bacevich writes, “From the outset, President Bush http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/usa.georgebush looked upon that war as something of a crusade and he himself as something of an agent of divine will.”
Wanneer er opnieuw een 'terroristische aanslag' wordt gepleegd verbaast het mij elke keer de interpretatie die men voor het gebeuren heeft. George W. Bush was de eerste die met de onzinnige verklaring "zij zijn jaloers op onze welvaart en onze waarden" kwam toen de Twin Towers werden neergehaald.
For Bush, terrorists constituted not a conspiracy or a criminal gang but the very embodiment of evil. He insisted that there could be no purpose, no rationale, and no explanation for their actions apart from sheer malevolence. The “evil ones,” the president said, are people who “have no country, no ideology; they’re motivated by hate.” For Bush this war was not, as Clausewitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz would have it, an extension of politics, but a moral imperative that transcended politics. As foreign policy scholar Andrew Bacevich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bacevich writes, “From the outset, President Bush http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/usa.georgebush looked upon that war as something of a crusade and he himself as something of an agent of divine will.”
Deze opvatting over de oorzaak van het Terrorisme werd trouwhartig door de diverse regeringsleiders en de 'mainstream media' nagebalkt.
By reducing the matter to a simplistic “war on terror” we never had to deal with the actual issues that were behind 9/11 and other acts. (Patrick Buchanan: Where the Right went Wrong)
The Terrorist Connection
Agence France Presse reminds us of this in a story on Bin Laden’s last tape: “In the final audio tape Bin Laden recorded before being killed, he warned there would be no security for the United States until Palestinians are allowed to live in security, an Islamist website reported: "America will not be able to dream of security until we live in security in Palestine," he said. "It is unfair that you live in peace while our brothers in Gaza live in insecurity. "Accordingly, and with the will of God, our attacks will continue against you as long as your support for Israel continues," he warned.”
The Terrorist Problem: “They are over here because we are over there.”
De aanslagen heten een ‘aanval op onze waarden’
https://decorrespondent.nl/3651/waarom-aanslagen-geen-aanval-op-onze-waarden-zijn-en-politici-ons-dat-wel-willen-doen-geloven/100705554906-30ce6ce6
Uit de Correspondent(2015-10-16) Willem Schinkel Dat is het frame dat gehanteerd wordt door regeringsleiders als Mark Rutte en David Cameron en Francois Hollande (en nu voor Engeland Theresa May (DWS). Maar voor wie met enige afstand naar de geopolitieke ontwikkelingen kijkt, is een duidelijk verband zichtbaar tussen de aanslagen in West-Europa en de aanvallen door West-Europese legers in Irak en Syrië. De terroristen zeggen letterlijk: val ons aan en je krijgt aanslagen. Dit was geen aanval op onze waarden, dit was een aanval op onze mensen Het is duidelijk dat het in het belang van de regeringsleiders is om die keten van causaliteit af te kappen voorbij noties als ‘gefrustreerde jongeren,’ want het zijn hun beslissingen geweest die terroristen nu als reden aanvoeren voor hun daden. Lees hier meer over de verklaring van de terroristen. Terwijl dit geen aanval was op onze waarden, dit was een aanval op onze mensen. Net zoals nu al geruime tijd aanvallen op mensen uitgevoerd worden in Irak en Syrië. De dag dat dit geweld zich in Nederland voordoet, is dan ook de dag om Mark Rutte persoonlijk verantwoordelijk te houden. Ervoor kiezen te bombarderen, wetende dat precies dat aanleiding geeft tot aanslagen en dan, als men inderdaad terugslaat, de waardigheid van slachtoffers ondermijnen door te zeggen dat het niet mensen maar waarden waren die aangevallen werden, hoe bedenk je het? Erger nog: de achtergrond van het ontstaan van IS is de door het Westen gecreëerde chaos in Irak. Maar dat was geen chaos die we niet zagen aankomen. Miljoenen mensen hebben die chaos voorspeld en hebben gedemonstreerd tegen de oorlog in Irak. Naar hen is niet geluisterd. Ook nu vriend en vijand toegeeft dat George W. Bush en Tony Blair fout zaten, blijven westerse landen kiezen voor bombarderen. En om de irrationaliteit daarvan compleet te maken, krijgen we als alternatieve probleemdiagnose voorgeschoteld: ze hebben een probleem met onze waarden. Ook binnen de staat is dat een leugen: weinig generaals en veiligheidsexperts zullen een ‘aanval op onze waarden’ serieus als oorzaak hanteren als ze inschatten hoe de geweldsdynamiek zich de afgelopen jaren heeft ontwikkeld.
Men heeft geen moeite met onze waarden of welvaart, men heeft moeite met het decennialange Imperiale Terreur van het Westen. Na de aanslag in Manchester: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn seized the moment to say "that our military interventions in the Middle East threaten safety at home. Theresa May and her Tory team (ook wel Tora team genoemd vanwege de disproportionele Joodse vertegenwoordiging binnen de partij), in denial as ever, have been trying to slap him down". http://www.redressonline.com/2017/05/manchester-bombing-message-still-not-understood/
Imperial Hubris door Stuart Littlewood
The link is obvious. So, when did all the aggravation start? Probably 1917 with the insane Balfour Declaration in which Tory Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, in a letter, promised Lord Rothschild a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. He pledged assistance for the Zionist cause, totally disregarding the consequences for the Arab majority there.
Imperial Hubris door Stuart Littlewood
The link is obvious. So, when did all the aggravation start? Probably 1917 with the insane Balfour Declaration in which Tory Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, in a letter, promised Lord Rothschild a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. He pledged assistance for the Zionist cause, totally disregarding the consequences for the Arab majority there.
Lord Sydenham warned: “What we have done, by concessions not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, is to start a running sore in the East, and no-one can tell how far that sore will extend.”
It was surely the cruellest and most idiotic foreign policy decision by a British government. Today there are 6.5 million dispossessed Palestinian refugees worldwide. More than 1.5 million live a miserable existence in 58 refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, waiting in vain to return to their family homes and farms.
It was surely the cruellest and most idiotic foreign policy decision by a British government. Today there are 6.5 million dispossessed Palestinian refugees worldwide. More than 1.5 million live a miserable existence in 58 refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, waiting in vain to return to their family homes and farms.
Those who still live in the shredded remnants of Palestine have been under brutal Israeli military occupation or blockade for 69 years. The Western powers’ failure to implement international law and deliver justice to the Arab communities in the Holy Land is deeply resented by Muslims worldwide.
The Holy Land has been a powder-keg since 1948 when Britain walked away from its mandate responsibility and the Israelis immediately declared statehood without defining borders. They have been stealing Palestinian lands and resources ever since. It will remain a powder-keg until the international community comes to its senses.
There have been many calls for us to apologise for Balfour’s betrayal. Theresa May responds by announcing her government will mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration later this year “with pride”. For good measure, she has invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is on many a wanted list for crimes against humanity, to join the jollifications. What terror-risk assessment has been done on this latest stupidity?
De joodse Invloed op het Westen
There have been many calls for us to apologise for Balfour’s betrayal. Theresa May responds by announcing her government will mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration later this year “with pride”. For good measure, she has invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is on many a wanted list for crimes against humanity, to join the jollifications. What terror-risk assessment has been done on this latest stupidity?
De joodse Invloed op het Westen
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Of course, whenever we talk about the chaos in the Middle East the elephant in the room – Israel – is never mentioned. Yet the Israel lobby has huge influence (some say “control”) over US foreign policy and considerable leverage in Westminster through organisations like Conservative Friends of Israel, whose aim is to promote the interests of that regime in the UK Parliament. Over 80 per cent of Tory MPs are said to belong to it, despite a recent United Nations report (now suppressed) branding Israel an apartheid state. Why such a concentration of zombies in the corridors of power?
NB. in de Verenigde Staten heeft de Israel Lobby grote invloed op het buitenlands beleid. Hun verlengstuk in de regering, de Neoconservatieven, huldigen de opvatting dat de belangen van Israël en de belangen van de VS identiek zijn. Zij zijn uitgesproken Israel Firsters Wij als trouwe NAVO partners volgen slaafs de 'wijze' beslissingen van onze grote voorganger de Verenigde Staten. De destabilisatie van het Midden-Oosten met zijn miljoenen doden, verminkten en ontheemden hebben we aan deze inmenging in de buitenlandse politiek van deze Joodse politieke elite in de VS te danken. Stuart Littlewood meent dat dit ook geldt voor het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Het zal niemand verbazen!
I recently heard one of May’s cabinet cronies blurt out that the Iraq war couldn’t possibly have been a cause of terrorist attacks here because it came after 9/11. When was 9/11? Ah yes, 2001. We imposed sanctions on Iraq for 12 years before waging the illegal war of 2003 – sanctions so vicious that they killed over half a million Iraqi children. “We think the price was worth it,” said the loathsome US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, at the time.
Israëls Enemies
Let’s not forget that Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Iran are Israel’s enemies, not ours. Those wars, or interventions, are largely for Israel’s benefit, although the Establishment spins a different story. As for our inexplicable hostility towards Iran, does anyone remember the crimes we committed against that country? The way government-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil (later BP) cheated Iran out of its oil revenues? The way, in 1953, we and the US overthrew their democratically elected prime minister, Dr Mohammad Mossadeq, imprisoned him, crushed Iran’s fragile economy and reinstated the hated Shah for a further 25 years? This led inevitably to the Islamic revolution of 1979. A few years later another Tory government backed Saddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran war, leaving the Iranians in the lurch. Iran remembers even if we don’t.
Israëls Enemies
Let’s not forget that Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Iran are Israel’s enemies, not ours. Those wars, or interventions, are largely for Israel’s benefit, although the Establishment spins a different story. As for our inexplicable hostility towards Iran, does anyone remember the crimes we committed against that country? The way government-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil (later BP) cheated Iran out of its oil revenues? The way, in 1953, we and the US overthrew their democratically elected prime minister, Dr Mohammad Mossadeq, imprisoned him, crushed Iran’s fragile economy and reinstated the hated Shah for a further 25 years? This led inevitably to the Islamic revolution of 1979. A few years later another Tory government backed Saddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran war, leaving the Iranians in the lurch. Iran remembers even if we don’t.
As Corbyn reminds us: “This is the fourth General Election in a row to be held while Britain is at war and our armed forces are in action in the Middle East and beyond. The “war on terror” which drove these interventions has failed. They have not increased our security at home – just the opposite. And they have caused destabilisation and devastation abroad.”
We reap what we sow, Mrs May. You should urgently revise your foreign policy for all our sakes.
We live in a World
of Lies and We Always Have
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/we-do-not-live-in-post-truth-world-we-live-in-a-world-of-lies-and-we-always-have/ (Robert Fisk)
Stop Living in Denial, Israel Is an Evil State http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.734309 (Gideon Levy)
