Gaza and the treason of the international community
One Thousand Reasons, CA by Ahmed Amr Friday June 30, 2006
Take a good look at Gaza and become a witness to what amounts to collective punishment administered to a small people by the rest of the planet. Israel’s sadistic army is not alone in laying siege to the densely populated strip of land that has become a virtual penitentiary for a million and a half souls. While Olmert’s thugs blow up bridges and power plants, the American government hands them more rope to hang the Palestinians. In the same spirit, the Europeans pitch in to starve the destitute inhabitants while the Arabs lounge around serenely watching the slaughter of their ‘brothers.’
It doesn’t take an international law degree to recognize that the deliberate destruction of essential infrastructure is a war crime. When Olmert publicly declares his intent to resort to excessive and disproportionate measures – he does so in complete confidence that he has immunity to commit any war crime that strikes his fancy. To cheer him on, Tony Snow sends him a congratulatory note for ‘defending himself.’
Witness Gaza and take a note of an act of international aggression against the native inhabitants of the Holy Land. This is not only about ‘Coffin’ Anan’s habitual insensitivity to the daily suffering of the Palestinians. Rather, it represents the will of the international community to give license to one people to torment a weaker people in broad daylight.
The door man at the State Department knows exactly what’s going on in Gaza. At the New York Times and CNN, the mass media mandrians have taken note of every detail and twisted it around to sound like an IDF press release. A President who has been taken captive by the Israeli Lobby and his Armageddon worshiping constituency publicly endorses Israel’s ‘right’ to inflict collective punishment against every defenseless child unfortunate enough to have been born a Palestinian. [more]