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Once
again, Anthony McIntyre
has stated, with great eloquence, the sickening details
of yet another Israeli atrocity. Then Defence Minister
Ariel Sharon, if not directly involved, gave license
to the Phalangists to engage in a pogrom, a blood-soaked
orgy of rape, torture and murder not seen again until
the genocide of Rwanda, or the ethnic cleansing of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo. While the
world community acted swiftly and decisively on these
latter atrocities, Sabra and Shatila were pushed aside
and forgotten by the world "leaders". And
why? Because of the perpetrators of these heartless
atrocities - the Israelites.
There is an unspoken rule in the halls of power of
Washington D.C., "if the Israelis did it, it
must be right." Not only do the Israelis get
$10+ billion from us every year, they also get our
blessing on whatever acts they choose to engage in.
Do you notice that every time the Israelis attack
Arafat's compund, it is he who receives the toungue-lashing,
not the Israeli Army? Whether or not you believe that
Arafat has become irrelevant (and I do), the Israeli's
actions are akin to the Bush Administration's stated
intent to depose Saddam Hussein. What gives us (or
the Israelis) the right? If one were able to dig deep
into the files and archives of the Mossad or Shin
Beth, the extent of savagery, of hatred, of unbridled
lawlessness and depravity would rival Hitler, Stalin,
and the Cultural Revolution. The Israeli regime is
saturated with the blood of its victims. It must surely
be some sort of sick joke that the butcher of Sabra
and Shatila now sits in the Prime Minister's chair
in Israel.
No
less criminal are the "suicide bombers"
that afflict the Israeli people. I recently had a
discussion with a friend and asked him "How would
you feel on leaving your house in the morning, not
knowing if you would return that evening?" It
is unacceptable that the Israeli must feel this way.
Do these people (the bombers) not see that they play
into the hands of Sharon and his ilk? Bomb a border
post, a military base, the Israeli Parliament, but
not innocent civilians. Yes, you are at war, but a
true soldier does not make war on the innocent.
So
where are we now? How can we have peace when a war
criminal sits in power in Israel? Will he ever be
made to answer for his crimes? Indeed, on the same
day that Blair and Queen Liz admit to 800+ years of
atrocity, murder, repression, dispossession and murderous
imperialism, offer their profound apologies and kiss
the feet of every Irish citizen and member of the
Diaspora. Sure, and rivers will run backwards first.
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