POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"Just as fascism and communism were the great struggles of previous generations, terrorism is the great struggle of ours."
And what about state terrorism, the largest and most lethal form of terrorism?
State
terrorism is an everyday practice today by the United States, and it
has been a building block of Israel since the foundation.
The early Zionists called it "the iron wall," and that phrase encapsulates Israel's every policy since 1948.
A
significant part of Israel’s 1940s effort to carve out a state included
the work of terror gangs like Stern, Lehi, and Irgun – all of whom
assassinated, planted bombs, and generally terrorized Arabs.
Israel
today sits back and claims terror is such a threat, but Israel itself
is a garrison state, grotesquely over-armed and ready constantly to
assault any neighbor it disapproves of, and it disapproves of virtually
all of them.
It is a lawless state, possessing atomic weapons
against all international rules and desires, and a state moreover that
was willing to proliferate atomic weapons technology with South Africa,
something it has never even received censure for.
Israel also
stands in contempt of a list of UN Resolutions, the very kind of thing
the United States has used as an excuse to bomb some government it
doesn’t like.
It also stands in violation of dozens on international agreements and protocols.
Israel
does not hesitate to kill children – having slaughtered 400 of them in
its vicious attack on Gaza, and according to the UN Special Rapporteur
for Palestine, Israel has killed more than 1,200 children since the year
2000.
Israel does not hesitate to kill peace workers, such as
those aboard the Gaza humanitarian fleet attacked on the high seas,
pictures and eyewitness reports from which clearly show Israeli soldiers
shooting unarmed crew members in cold blood.
And don't forget,
while Israel was bombing Southern Lebanon a few years ago, dropping
about a million cluster bombs (the world's most ghastly, inhumane
weapon) to maim and kill women and children and farmers for years to
come, it also killed 4 UN observers, including a brave Canadian who died
at his post.
John Baird's boss, our glorious prime minister,
after that cold-blooded murder said only he couldn't understand why the
UN had observers there: that is the fetid pool of thought from which
John Baird's words come.
On a per capita basis - the only fair way to compare - Israel is pretty much the world leader in brutality and abuse.
It keeps about ten thousand - the number is always changing - Palestinians illegally in prison.
Nearing
half a century, it keeps more than 4 million Palestinians under
occupation, totally illegal occupation, and it abuses them constantly
with checkpoints and endless red-tape.
It helps itself each week
or so to any parcel of someone else's land that it chooses, indeed it
has cobbled together a set of laws and regulations designed specifically
to allow it to do this to Palestinians who cannot possibly meet the
vicious laws’ requirements - anywhere else this would be called theft by
a state.
It decides whether it will assassinate leaders that it
does not like, and it does so regularly, with complete impunity - that's
the purest form of police-state terror you can come up with.
To
carry out these dozens of assassinations, it breaks laws in many
countries and it regularly abuses national passports by stealing and
altering them or forging them, and Canada’s passport has been a frequent
victim of this criminal behavior.
It does all these criminal
acts with the complete support and approval of the United States,
without whose influence and twisting of arms and rules, Israel might
well collapse of its own gross excesses.
You do not and cannot
get peace from a state which behaves as Israel does. It's like saying
the blacks in apartheid South Africa could have had peace by talking to
the apartheid government - it literally is that absurd.
Only influence from outside can remedy what Israel has inflicted for decades.
But that influence will certainly not come from the dark bulk who represents less than forty percent of Canadians.
He’s
too busy trying to please the United States in every nicety and detail,
and he is too busy trying to appeal to the minority of intense Israel
apologists, hoping to secure his party’s long-term financing, hoping to
establish the same kind of arrangement which now absolutely determines
the ongoing injustice of American foreign policy for the Middle East.
The
dark bulk is ruining our international reputation, in every area of
endeavor, making of us a sort of unofficial 51st state in the world’s
eyes.
This is a nightmare world John Baird defends, a world where
war is peace and hatred is love, but he does it unblinkingly and
aggressively like a Joseph Goebbels defending his master’s bloody
deeds.
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FROM A READER:
"Recognizing
the Zionist Stab in the back as the cause of their hardship, was the
only reason that Germany democratically elected the Nazi party, to keep
the Jews from repeating history."
Absolutely wrong in every detail.
I'm no friend of Israel's bloody work, but I deal in facts and logic, not ignorance and distortion.
Hitler was never elected.
The highest vote the Nazi Party ever got in free elections was about 37%, and that was after years of furious effort.
He
was appointed Chancellor by the aging President, von Hindenburg, who
wanted to stop the turmoil and fighting in the streets, part of which
was of course Hitler's own efforts through his private army of
Brownshirts, the SA.
The Nazis conducted an elaborate coup with
the burning of the Reichstag, and the aged and much admire war-hero
president died. Hitler rammed through legislation giving him the
presidential powers and more.
Once firmly in power, the Nazis
conducted a number of plebiscites, and they got the kinds of votes you
always saw in the Soviet Union's elections, figures like 98%, but if you
accept those as valid you really are a sad, uncritical soul.
As for "the stab in the back" there was no such thing. It was a figure of Hitler's vivid and fetid imagination.
Hitler considered the Weimar Republic itself a stab in the back. He always hated any form of liberalism or popular government.
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“Being
surrounded by Muslim-only states does that. 4 million Jews live in a
tiny state surrounded by a billion Muslims in 57 states, and it is
apparently racist for Israel to be a Jewish state. Wow. But I can
understand why the Jew haters want this "right to return"; flood Israel
with enough Muslims and then you have 58 Muslim states!”
Simply appallingly ignorant.
What does the make-up of other states have to with Israel?
Nothing,
and indeed when you make this appalling argument, your words closely
resemble those of Hitler in his demands for lebensraum for the German
people and his claims that Germans deserved a special space in which to
flourish for the future, that too many other European states held more
land than they needed.
In case you don't know it, Israel has
about 1 million non-Jewish citizens – I don’t mean the more than 4
million of the occupied territories but people who carry Israeli
passports.
These are the descendants of the Palestinians who refused to run from Israeli terror in 1948.
Israel didn't want them, but it was pretty much stuck with them.
However, Israel has found many ways of treating them through contrived laws as second-class citizens.
More than one prominent Israeli has advocated running them off the land.
The current ethically-obtuse Foreign Minister is definitely sympathetic to that kind of filthy thinking.
So if Israel is formally recognized as "the Jewish state," what happens to those poor citizens?
I think we can all guess, and it won’t be pleasant.
And
do you not recognize the irrational nature of the demand for a single
ethic/religious state? It is no different at all to fundamentalist
Islamist demands for Islamic states.
The truth is that Israel in
concept was an outdated 19th century concept. It has proved divisive and
destructive its entire brief history. It ranks among the world’s most
unjust states.
But nevertheless, mistake or not, the world
accepts its existence so long as it stops violating every law and moral
concept we know to maintain its ethnic purity.
Is it too much to ask that it retreat to its borders and to finally start treating its neighbors as human beings?
