It makes one wonder, why the US and some of the European countries stand behind the escalation and barbarism and apartheid that the extreme right wing fascist government of Israel is following and conducting toward stealing more lands, without their people!!!! Who's directing who ??? and who's drawing the blue print here . One could only wonder. Most people agree, but not the media nor the administration and the official representatives.....
This blog was published October the 10th, I'm reproducing it as still very appropriate, in an ongoing miserable situation......
Here is an interesting comment I just received from a European-Palestinian friend.
War and all acts of violence are terrible events which create intolerable suffering, human tragedies and destruction in all its forms. As it goes, the attack this week by Hamas on Israel is no different. It is however right to remind ourselves, in the cacophony of Western media and US and Western European politicians (plus Zelensky of all people!!) falling over each other to condemn Hamas, giving Israel a green light to wage a new war on Palestinians, while repeating the tired mantra that Israel has the right to defend itself -- but the Palestinians who have been subjected to a most brutal occupation, dispossession and apartheid do not!! -- it is right to remind ourselves that the root cause of this war is Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories for the past 50 years in total disregard of all UN resolutions, its effective siege and imprisonment of a population of over 2 million people in Gaza for the past 15 years, and it and its settlers continuing to steal Palestinian land and water in the West Bank and oppressing the Palestinian people.The West and the US in particular, and Western media, have aided Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people for the past 75 years. The Palestinian people are refusing to die and a nation resisting aggression, defending its human rights, national rights and dignity is not a terrorist nation. Resistance is a right enshrined in the UN charter. The West cannot on the one hand brand the Ukrainian people defending their land as Heroes ( and I support this), then turn around and brand Palestinian fighters defending their nation's very existence as Terrorists. Any objective observer would qualify this as hypocritic, disingenuous, totally lacking in morality.Israel ethnically cleansed 750'000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 and conquered 78% of Palestine's territory. Gaza's population is made up with over 75% of refugees who had been forced to flee their homes in pre-1948 Palestine (areas currently within Israel). Since then, Israel has grabbed substantially more Palestinian land, notably in the West Bank and its evident long-term vision is to conquer all of Palestine -- without the Palestinians. I am not making this up. Ministers in Israel's current extreme fascist government have declared this openly on several occasions. This would imply a new ethnic cleansing campaign to get rid of several million Palestinians.The URL link below addresses this issue and the possibility of Israel using the attack it has suffered to carry out such a campaign. I do not know how things will unfold in the coming days/weeks. Israel will certainly unleash on Gaza and its fighters plus its civilians, all its might, its superior weaponry and firepower, air power and missiles, its total control over Gaza's electric grid and water, etc. It has already destroyed 2 hospitals there. Meetings will be held in the UN which will accomplish little. There will be several thousand additional deaths and untold tragedies and human suffering. I really do ask myself: Why doesn't the US and Western European powers join the rest of the world in forcing Israel to cease its occupation of Palestinian Territories, and its continuous aggression, and allowing a decent 2-state solution to take place?
Sam.
Here, exclusively, are these rules that everyone must have "in mind" when watching the Television News in the evening. Everything will become easier!
Rule number 1: In the Middle East, it is always the Arabs who attack first and it is always Israel which defends itself. This is called retaliation.
Rule number 2: Arabs, Palestinians or Lebanese do not have the right to kill civilians from the other side. It's called terrorism.
Rule number 3: Israel has the right to kill Arab civilians. This is called self-defense.
Rule number 4: When Israel kills too many civilians, Western powers call on it to show restraint. This is called the reaction of the international community.
Rule number 5: Palestinians and Lebanese do not have the right to capture Israeli soldiers, even if their number is very limited and does not exceed one soldier.
Rule number 6: Israelis have the right to kidnap as many Palestinians as they want (around 12,000 prisoners to date). There are no limits and there is no need to provide any proof of the guilt of the abductees. All you have to do is say the magic word “terrorist”.
Rule number 7: When you say "Resistance", you must always add the expression "supported by Syria and Iran".
Rule number 8: When you say "Israel", you should definitely not add after: "supported by the United States, France and Europe", because one could believe that it is an unbalanced conflict .
Rule number 9: Never speak of “occupied territories”, nor of UN resolutions, nor of violations of international law, nor of the Geneva conventions. This risks disturbing the viewer and listener of the US or of Europe.
Rule number 10: Israelis speak English and French better than Arabs. This explains why they and their supporters are given the floor as often as possible. So, they can explain the previous rules to us (from 1 to 9). This is called journalistic neutrality.
Rule number 11: If you do not agree with its rules or if you find that they favor one party in the conflict against another, then you are a dangerous anti-Semite!!!
Rule number 1: In the Middle East, it is always the Arabs who attack first and it is always Israel which defends itself. This is called retaliation.
Rule number 2: Arabs, Palestinians or Lebanese do not have the right to kill civilians from the other side. It's called terrorism.
Rule number 3: Israel has the right to kill Arab civilians. This is called self-defense.
Rule number 4: When Israel kills too many civilians, Western powers call on it to show restraint. This is called the reaction of the international community.
Rule number 5: Palestinians and Lebanese do not have the right to capture Israeli soldiers, even if their number is very limited and does not exceed one soldier.
Rule number 6: Israelis have the right to kidnap as many Palestinians as they want (around 12,000 prisoners to date). There are no limits and there is no need to provide any proof of the guilt of the abductees. All you have to do is say the magic word “terrorist”.
Rule number 7: When you say "Resistance", you must always add the expression "supported by Syria and Iran".
Rule number 8: When you say "Israel", you should definitely not add after: "supported by the United States, France and Europe", because one could believe that it is an unbalanced conflict .
Rule number 9: Never speak of “occupied territories”, nor of UN resolutions, nor of violations of international law, nor of the Geneva conventions. This risks disturbing the viewer and listener of the US or of Europe.
Rule number 10: Israelis speak English and French better than Arabs. This explains why they and their supporters are given the floor as often as possible. So, they can explain the previous rules to us (from 1 to 9). This is called journalistic neutrality.
Rule number 11: If you do not agree with its rules or if you find that they favor one party in the conflict against another, then you are a dangerous anti-Semite!!!
A horribly bad situation in the making, let's hope it doesn't lead to another disaster, all my thanks to my good readers all over.
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