US starts to find its moral compass...

Date: 2010-05-12

Earlier this week, unreported by the British media (dontcha just love election coverage, any excuse...), the US dropped 10 missiles from a drone in West Pakistan and killed at least 14 civilians.

Good news, if that's what you can call it, is that this managed to prompt a debate on breakfast tv in the US. See it here and believe it:

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So When are You Going to Make War on Israel, Gordon?

Great piece by Alan Hart. For those not in the know, Gordon Brown is an honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund, as are David Cameron and (still) Anthony Blair.

There could not be a more graphic illustration of the double-standard that drives Western foreign policy and has prevented a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict than Prime Minister Gordon Brown's explanation to the Chilcot Inquiry on why he, when he was Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and wrote the cheques for it, backed the war on Iraq.

He said, "It was the right decision for the right reasons."

What were they?

Not 9/11 or the WMD assertions.

In an effort to distance himself from America's neo-cons and their soul-mate in London, Prime Minister (at the time) Tony Blair, Brown said: "I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-conservative proposition, that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight liberty or democracy could be conjured up. What I believed was that the case for intervention was that international law had to be observed."

Putting some flesh on that bone, Brown said his view was that if the international community could not act together over Iraq, he feared that "the new world order we were trying to create would be put at risk."

Meaning?

"Aggressor states that refuse to obey the laws of the international community" have to be confronted. Iraq was a "serial violator of the rules of the international community."

There is, of course, some truth in that, but not nearly as much truth as in the statement that for 62 years the Zionist state of Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest single violator of international law. No state on Planet Earth has been allowed to get away with defying UN resolutions for so long. And, I say, no state poses a bigger threat to the peace of the region and the world than Israel on its present course.

As I have previously written, the double-standard which allows Israel to behave as it likes with impunity was effectively put into place when the major powers, all of them, refused to condemn Israel as the aggressor in 1967 and demand that it withdraw from occupied territories without preconditions.

If Mr. Brown means what he says, and if by chance he remains prime minister after Britain's imminent election, logic suggests that he will take the lead with President Obama in putting together a coalition to require Israel, by war if necessary, to comply with "the rules of the international community."

Of course he won't because logic, like truth and reality, has no place in politics, domestic or international.

Alan Dershowitz Defends Israel, Attacks Student 'Extremists'

Delighted to link across to an anti-Israeli Apartheid Week post (sorry, make that selective propagandist rant) on the Huffington Post. Read all about it here, and watch this space for an article to come deconstructing pretty much every word. If Oxford only knew it was being described like this...

Israeli Apartheid Week

Thanks to New Profile for this digest of related news concerning the abuse of Palestinian human rights that is Israel. And thanks to an Israeli, Ilan Pappe, for calling during this particular week for the West to throw off its chains, ignore the Israeli propaganda claims of anti-Semitism, and call a "spade a spade". The UK has a debt to pay and an obligation to honour in restoring justice and peace to the Middle East - it can do that simply by recognising the wrongs that the Israeli Government perpetrates on the Palestinian community and doing something about it. And what can we do? Hear the call of Israeli Apartheid Week - Boycott (don't buy Israeli goods), Divestment (urge everyone not to invest in Israeli firms) and Sanctions (don't deal with Israel, don't deal with people who persist in dealing with Israel)

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