Once again, is the West’s Frankenstein out of control?
11. Aug, 2010
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Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
When international condemnation intensified in relation to the crime committed by Israel against the aid flotilla unarmed activists, who were trying to bring food and medicine to the civilians besieged in Gaza, the Netanyahu government started to use expressions like ‘intentions to ease the blockade’. But here is Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who visited Gaza last week, saying that she saw no sign of easing the blockade and declaring, on behalf of the EU that keeping the blockade on one and a half million Palestinian civilians is “unacceptable”.
But such statements remain statements if not translated into an action plan or sanctions to force Netanyahu’s extremist government to lift the blockade. And here is Israel, months after the publication of the Goldstone report and the UN request that Israel respond to the report, “pledging” to reduce civilian casualties and limit the use of “phosphorous bombs”. In other words, Israel confirms that it will continue to target Palestinian civilians and use internationally banned weapons against them.
On the same day, Israel demolished Palestinian houses and shops and expelled hundreds of Palestinians from pre-1948 Palestinian territories to the West Bank in implementation of its declared racist ‘transfer’ policy. It will also build a separation barrier with Egypt next week. At the same time, the Israeli defence minister will visit Washington soon to discuss bilateral cooperation and conditions for resuming negotiations. In other words, Ehud Barak, indicted with war crimes against civilians in South Lebanon and Gaza, will ask the American administration for more financial, military, political and diplomatic support in order to continue the policies of blockade, demolition, oppression, starvation and transfer against Palestinian civilians. This will of course be given coverage by the pro-Israeli media in order to maintain Israel’s image as “an oasis of freedom in the Middle East”, in Joe Biden’ words.
For western governments and media to accept a brutal blockade to be imposed on one and a half Palestinians is shocking, particularly that they claim to defend ‘human rights’ and support the causes of justice, freedom and democracy. It is also shocking that the United Nations calls on Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian houses, while it has, for years, carried out a policy of judaizing Jerusalem and demolished some of the most beautiful architectural monuments in the neighbourhoods of Jarrah and Silwan without the UN taking any measure against Israel as it has done with other countries.
This contradiction and use of double standards exposes the false claims of western democracies that they support human rights and believe in the rule of law; for every day we see Palestinians being arrested for demonstrating peacefully against the demolition of their houses; and we see them turned into refugees. Accepting words like ‘easing’ and ‘reducing’ means not respecting Palestinians’ life and not equating their suffering and pain with the suffering and pain of western people. Otherwise, why had all human-rights organizations, the United Nations, the United States and Europe failed to impose sanctions against Israel because of all these crimes committed against unarmed Palestinian, while they do so against countries for mere suspicion that they have intentions to develop weapons? The credibility of the White House in supporting peace in the Middle East is completely shattered when an official in this house, which has a long history of supporting dictatorships, expresses pride that the United States provides Israel with $ 4 billion to equip it with the most devastating weapons, including nuclear weapons, while it spends $ 3 billion on more than seventy other countries.
There is no need to interpret intentions here, because Israel has demonstrated for the past sixty years that it uses these American weapons to eliminate the Palestinian people, suppress their right to freedom, steal their land and water and destroy their future. So, why arming Israel is a source of pride, while other countries’ attempt to get weapons to defend themselves justifies accusing them with terrorism? Why are not the measures and standards applied against others, who have not committed a crime, be applied against Israel? This is the question raised by Seth Freedman in The Guardian (July 15, 2010) in an article entitled “Force Israel’s hand on Palestinian home demolition”. The writer stresses that “Israel’s resumption of demolition in East Jerusalem requires firm intervention to prevent a total breakdown in talks”, and I say to prevent more crimes against innocent people. The writer goes on to say “Unfortunately, it is not hard to see where their arrogance stems from: for years, no American or European leader has dared match their angry words with concrete actions, such as sanctions against Israel”. He adds: “Judaising” East Jerusalem is a stated policy of numerous settler groups and their financial and political backers, and every home demolition and family eviction expedites the process of ethnic cleansing already embarked upon”.
While Israel demolishes Palestinian homes and expropriates the properties of absent Palestinians by forcibly expelling them from their homes, it demands that Arab countries return the possessions of the Jews who used to live in them. It expels African children from Israel so that it remains ‘Jewish and white’. Reading Mya Guarnieri’s article “children are just Israel’s latest victims” in The Guardian (July 20, 2010) makes you disgusted at a policy that does not give value to any human being or any human relationship. What makes you angry is that such a policy receives support and funding from most western countries which never tire of talking about human rights and freedom.
I once wrote that Israel is the 20th-century Frankenstein invented by the west. Has this Frankenstein gone beyond the control of its western creators? Or, is there still no sufficient conviction of its danger to others, to itself, and ultimately to the entire world?
Professor Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates.
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In answer to your final question Professor, the answer is a resounding YES.
In the interests of the entire world this zionist entity HAS to be brought down.
Not only Israel but it’s supporters are so out of touch with reality and any thoughts of what is morally right as far as Palestinians, Muslims and especially Arabs are concerned any longer, and the problem is that the western media have been desensitized to such an extent that they no longer see us as the equivilent of themselves.
Had an Imam recently publish a book in a Muslim country counselling his “flock” to go out an kill non-Muslim babies, children women even if they were not a threat to them because they might be one day, can you imagine the outcry around the world? Yet when the two Rabbis in the West Bank not only wrote this book but actually gave pages of it to religious IDF soldiers participating in Cast Lead there was no reporting of the is the West except via the internet.
The very idea of paying any restitution to Jews from Arab countries is a complete Joke. No Jew left an Arab country before Israel send Mossad into said Arab country to conduct false flag operations. There was never an outpouring of Jews from Arab countries – most went to France and very few Arab countries asked their Jews to leave. Egypt only asked theirs to leave after the Lavon Affair. In each case of Jews leaving Arab countries, Israel was the cause, they needed fodder for their army. When Jews from Arab countries did go to Israel they seldom stay for long – they were treated so badly by the Ashkenzis. When the European Jews? cannot treat other Jews with dignity how can anyone expect them to treat another people with dignity or respect = it does not equate. We are not dealing with normal, logical, morally thinking human beings. We are dealing with monsters – it is incredible that Western governments can look their own people in the face and support Israel any longer after the attrocities committed against Palestinians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Egyptians and by proxy the decimation of Iraq and its history.
For the sake of humanity and if we wish to keep what is left of the history of beginning of civilization (in the region of the Middle East) I would urge thinking people who are able to see and think clearly to realize that what Israel is doing via Nato and the USA is destroying the History of Civilization – already through the Iraqi/Afghan/Pakistani war we will have lost many of the sites that Alexander the Great trod. We have also thanks to the Americans lost many Biblical Sites in Babylon and Iraq. In Israel, the Israelis have almost killed the Dead Sea by using it to manufacture cosmetics. The Sea of Galillee has been ruined by Israelis who use it for partying and putting their garbage into it as they have the River Jordan. Until the Zionists came all these places had been kept beautifully as had the orchards, lands – all now ruined. No Christian religious Site is safe in Palestine or Israel. They have always been maintained throughout the centuries by Christian and Muslims in Palestine but not any longer, the Jews destroy them at will or just take them over to use as they wish. Our history they wish to destoy …….. our memories they cannot ……… they will go on and on!!! So will our dignity…. our people and we will come home to Palestine!!!!
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Dr. Shaaban accurately describes the unjust, inhumane, immoral, hypocritical and homicidal policy that supports the criminal-robber Zionist state (as well as a few tyrannical client Arab states) in the Middle East. The comparison of the Zionist state to Frankenstein, however, is somewhat inapposite. The creator of the Frankenstein monster was unable to control it. In contrast, the US, UK, France and all the other enablers of the criminal-robber state have the means to exert virtually total control of the Zionists, if they decided to do so, but they choose not to. Instead, the voting electorates of the Western powers have consistently for 60 years voluntarily elected governments that support the Zionist state. The essential problem now is not the monster, but its creators who choose not to subdue it.
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Llyn I want you to know that there are some of us here in America that are disgusted by those baby killers!
Here is a blog in America that you might find interesting.
http://mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com/
Here is a recent article on this blog.
“Ye Are Of Your Father, The Devil” – Jesus To The Jews John-8-44
Llyn many Americans believe falsely that Christianity teaches that they will be punished by God if they cross the Jews in any way.
Please research the Jews holy book, the Talmud. It teaches that Jews are superior to non-Jews. Even Jews that are secular have a superiority complex. Jews endlessly preach to non-Jews about how they have been treated throughout history, but they will never take responsibility for what they have done. They set rules for the non-Jews that they don’t expect Jews to follow.
What country has been better to Jews than America? No country has given them more wealth and power. America has backed the Jewish State when the rest of the world has turned away in disgust! How are they thanking this country? They are using their power to destroy it! There is no gratitude in their ice cold hearts! The reason we are killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan is the Israeli lobby here in America. I’m not saying that to excuse our government for serving them. They are war criminals, and God willing they will face war crimes trials in the not to distant future.
The 9/11 attack, was a false flag attack by Israel and elements in our own government. I use to have some doubts about it, but not anymore.
Here is 2 passages from the Talmud.
Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.
Midrasch Talpioth, p.225-L
A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he treats a piece of meat.
Hadarine, 20, B;Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348
“The modern Jew is the product of the Talmud.”
-Michael Rodkinson, in preface of Babylonian Talmud, page XI.
“The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart’s blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs, or ceremonies we observe – whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, or merely spasmodic sentimentalists – we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.”
-Herman Wouk, “This is my God.”
They also thanked America by attacking the USS Liberty in 1967. I would also encourage you to research that attack, and spread the truth about it. Our own government covered up that attack. When the American people finally wake up to what has been going on, Jews better run for the hills! Americans are waking up too! Thanks to the Internet!
I enjoyed your comment Llyn! God bless.
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I see my comment was pulled. Another fake group passing itself off as truth seekers. What are you afraid of? I didn’t just make the charge that Jews think they are superior to the rest of the human race, I posted passages from their religious book the Talmud, to prove it! Again I ask, what are you people afraid of? Those passages as well as others help prove why they feel it is okay to murder Palestinian children.
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Elias Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Frank
Your earlier comment has been posted
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