    London is Burning
    by Gilad Atzmon
    7.7.05

    We are used to seeing images of horrors from the
    Iraqi capital. For most Londoners and Britons,
    those images are nothing more than a remote call
    from a foreign country. Somehow, most of us have
    managed to forget that it is basically our
    government who is responsible for the continued
    horror in Iraq.

    Today's images of horror are coming from London,
    seemingly, Baghdad and London appear to share a
    very similar fate.

    I am sitting in my front room watching BBC 24
    learning that the metropolitan police and the
    emergency services are operating according to a
    plan. Clearly they all anticipated such an attack.
    A government that is fully engaged in some
    criminal colonialist activity better prepare its
    voters for the outcome of its policies. A minute
    ago I heard Tony Blair telling the nation that
    'our' determination to defend 'our values' of life
    is greater than 'their' determination to cause
    death and destruction. I ask myself, what values
    is he referring to? Surely the continuation of the
    robbery of Arab oil is a major value for Blair but
    it isn't my value. Tony Blair, a man who initiated
    a war without UN backing, a man with blood on his
    hands wants us to believe that he is really
    concerned about African poverty and climate
    changes.

    Whether we like it or not, we must admit that
    Terror is a message and we better learn to listen
    to it attentively:

    First, it tells us that we are as vulnerable as
    anyone else.

    Second , it tells us that we may have to let other
    people live their life according to their values
    and beliefs.

    Third, it tells us that we must never again give
    our votes to war criminals.

    More than anything else it tells us that we have a
    moral duty. It is down to us to stop our
    governments. It is our duty to stand up and to
    demand the resignation of Blair who is responsible
    for the death of so many Iraqis and arguably now
    many Innocent Britons. We must remember that
    voting in a non-ethical politician makes us all
    into active shareholders in a criminal company.

    We know already that both in America and Israel
    the consequences of terror led the general public
    towards an endorsement of right wing zealously. I
    do hope that the British people will follow the
    Spanish public's reaction. Warmongers and
    militant aggressors must be ousted from our
    political climate. Only then peace will prevail.