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.