THE PROMISED LAND
THE PROMISED LAND
So here we go again.
President Sharon of Israel has applauded the actions of his Swedish Ambassador for vandalising a work of art. Admittedly, the work of art does feature a photograph of a female Palestinian suicide bomber, but, let us not forget, vandalism is vandalism.
Still one man�s Suicide Bomber is another mans Freedom Fighter. One mans Patriot is another Man�s Invader.
Then again, Israel does seem to be keen on vandalising the world. Aggrandised by its own sense of self-importance, Israel seems to view itself as beyond reproach. As if somehow it can do whatever it wants because it feels it has been forever persecuted.
Now, this is not to deny that anti-Semitism has existed. It is an obvious, an undeniable fact that the Jews have been persecuted throughout the centuries, culminating in the Holocaust. But you know the old clich� about child abusers. You respond to the way you are treated.
Israel has become a bully. A monster. A rogue nation that feels it is its God-Given right to do whatever the hell it wants, because somewhere in the past, it was wronged. The slave begins by demanding justice and ends up wanting a crown.
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
So in 1947, awarded some 55% of Palestine by the UN, Israel was born. In the end, Israel now occupies some 78% of Palestine. And for this act of resisting invasion of the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians are Terrorists. How the oppressed are painted as oppressors.
In 1948, in order to create Israel, Palestinians were uprooted, ethnically cleansed, exiled to ghettos, and massacred in their hundreds. Nobody knows exactly how many people were murdered : maybe thousands. Maybe millions. Palestine has its own holocaust and the perpetrators are the very ones who should know, perhaps more than anyone, the exact cost and horror of a systematic programme of extermination.
So in Palestine, in acts of lawless terrorism, Israel drives its tanks over the shanty-town villages of its occupants : arbitrarily destroying the homes of thousands in what the Israeli Government calls something vaguely insulting like �Involuntary Levelling�. So far it has performed these acts of involuntary levelling upon some 16,638 homes in Palestine in the past three years alone. There are no accurate figures for the 52 years previous to this.
For the 3.5 million inhabitants of Palestine, constantly in a state of siege, living under an illegal invasion that is actively supported by the United States, Israel is every bit as repressive and evil as the Third Reich. A wicked, cruel invader that conscripts it�s young and turns them into murderers.
Not only that. Israel is now building it�s very own West Bank �Berlin� Wall : cutting a country in half with checkpoints, gun turrets, armoured bunkers, barbed wire and concrete. Israel is creating its own ghettos, segregating and discriminating against its own people, invading other countries, and creating its very own First Reich. It�s soldiers are murderers and rapists : children forced to kill by statute. Drafted, brainwashed, by some paranoid Government crowing about justice.
THE UN-UNITED NATIONS
Palestine is not, does not, and will never belong to Israel. Israel has broken at least 86 UN Resolutions, and that�s not taking into account its actions after 1995.
Normally breaking just one of those is enough to ensure that the United States will invade. Or at the very least rig an election, install its own CIA-trained Junta, overthrow the democracy it pretends to believe in and Play God. I think it�s about time I invaded Israel.
Not of course, to mention that the United States only ever takes notice of the UN when it needs to invade somewhere and wants a reason that can be used to pressgang some other unwilling nations into a great big war. Of course, the more UN resolutions the US ignores, the less likely it is that the UN will ever have any political credibility. Soon the only political power worth exerting will be military.
But since the United States vetoes every anti-Israeli resolution, I think it�s fair to say that America supports this illegal invasion, and therefore positively endorses murder, rape, the emascalation of the UN, the breakdown of international relations, oppression, torture, and warmongering.
Every day the US provides $15,139,178 to the Israeli Government and Military. Millions of greenbacks fund the illegal oppression of Palestinians. Land of the free, home of the brave � and the idiots are at the wheel.
IDIOTS AT THE WHEEL
Somehow, everyone seems to fear criticising Israel. Everyone seems to fear being labelled as an anti-Semite. And everyone seems to know that you can�t say what we all already know. That President Bush seems to be deferring at every point possible to Israel. And Israel is turning into the monster
Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism. Criticism of Israel is common sense. Israel is an invader that has stolen land, raped, murdered, pillaged and destroyed. If there is any way to avert an impending war in the West bank and Gaza, there is only one solution. Get the troops out now. No war is a good war. No war is just. In a war, everybody loses.
Israel is the demon. It needs to be exorcised. It needs to tear down The Wall. Disarm the soldiers. Go back to being the promised land, and not be one of the accelerators of mankinds seemingly imminent extinction.
Still, when mankind is as obviously shortsighted and stupid as it�s leaders, maybe our extinction is no bad thing. After all, Stupid Is As Stupid Does. The idiots are at the wheel, and they are driving all of us to the edge.
� copyright Mark Reed, 1991-2004 except where indicated