DISPROPORTIONEEL VERDRIET
Het is een halve eeuw geleden dat de Zesdaagse Oorlog in Israel plaatsvond. Israel veroverde Jeruzalem, de Westbank, Gaza en de Golanhoogte.
Het NRC wijdt aan deze gebeurtenis een artikelenreeks.
Het eerste artikel gaat over drie Joodse meisjes die geïnterviewd worden over het verlies van hun vriendinnetje Hallel. Een meisje dat door een Palestijnse jongen wordt vermoord.
Vanzelfsprekend een afschuwelijke gebeurtenis voor alle betrokkenen bij dit ongelukkige kind.
Een eerste artikel van een reeks zet vaak de toon! Het lijkt de Joodse Israëliërs opnieuw zo welbewust in de slachtoffer rol te plaatsen.
Durft de NRC niet van dit gevestigde 'lamenterende Joodse pad' aftewijken.
Immers het aantal kinderen dat slachtoffer van het Israel-Palestijnse conflict is geworden is aan de Palestijnse kant vele malen groter.
The Impact of the Conflict on Children
“The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers".
Is het verdriet van Palestijnen niet belangrijk.... 'het zijn toch allemaal terroristen'? Is het Palestijnse mensenleven minder waard dan dat van een 'Westerling'?
Die indruk wordt in de 'Mainstream media' gewekt.
In het nieuws wordt even kort vermeld dat er bijvoorbeeld in Kabul, om maar een willekeurige plek in dat geweldsgebied te noemen, tientallen doden bij een 'Zelfmoord aanslag' zijn gevallen, om vervolgens over te gaan tot de orde van de dag.
Echter een aanslag in Manchester of Londen wordt breed uitgesponnen. Theresa May verschijnt in beeld en heeft het over nieuwe maatregelen die genomen moeten worden om het 'kwaad van het Terrorisme' uit te roeien, immers 'enough is enough'.
We krijgen tot in detail in beeld gebracht de immense ellende die zich tijdens die aanslagen heeft voorgedaan. Mevrouw May suggereert bovendien in haar mededeling voor Downingstreet nummer 10, dat het Terrorisme een zelfstandig kwaad is dat zich onttrokken heeft aan de wetmatigheid van 'oorzaak en gevolg'. Een suggestie die ondanks haar beroep op eensgezindheid in haar land toch via een omweg de 'schuld' bij de Moslimgemeenschap neerlegt.
Het is immers 'Het Kwaad'
Stuart Littlewood https://english.alarabiya.net/authors/Stuart-Littlewood-.html zegt het anders dan Senator Ron Paul maar het komt op hetzelfde neer: "They are over Here because We are over There".
NB VERAX: donderdag 25 mei
Manchester
bombing: message still not understood
29th May 2017
By Stuart Littlewood
The Manchester atrocity certainly succeeded in derailing the General
Election campaign here in the UK. It has now resumed with the focus on homeland
security and a lot of fresh babble about the “war on terror”, much to the
frustration of party strategists who planned to preach Brexit… Brexit… Brexit.
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, in denial as ever, have been trying to slap him down.
Poison of Balfour
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.
Theresa May and her Tory team, in denial as ever, have been trying to slap him down.
Poison of Balfour
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. 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.
Servility of Theresa May.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Oil theft and plots against
Iran.
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.
