As we watch the news screen everyday, our heart breaks when we see the images of the children dying and mosques being bombed to dust amongst other things. Yesterday 20 Muslims were blown to pieces after the evening prayers along with the mosque they were praying in. The question is should we be weeping for them? Continue reading Pity not the Muslims of Gaza!
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The West prides itself on propagating justice and democracy. It sailors through the world advertising to the poor decrepit nations the dream of being free - promising freedom, equality and justice to those that are so naïve enough to succumb to their double standards and insalubrious rhetoric and diplomacy. Bush and company claim that their desire is noting but to rid the world of oppression and tyranny, while at the same time – and this is visible to any sane person, they are the leaders of spreading carnage and tyranny by supporting dictators, despotic rulers, and war criminals. They say, ‘we are the good-doers, but they are indeed the corrupters’. Continue reading ‘We will fight like lions’ Day eight of near enough non stop bombardment, over 420 Palestinians killed, thousands injured, hospitals bombed to the ground, the sanctity of mosques ignored as they are struck by Israeli missiles, political leaders assassinated along with their children and family. This is Israel’s response to homemade rockets fired more in defiance then anything else. Israel’s response to rockets fired into southern Israel which has killed only four in the last 7 days, is to launch an unprecedented aerial bombardment of Gaza, threaten land invasion and declare a long and protracted war to destroy Hamas’s capability to launch rockets. Has it worked? Has it hell! Continue reading Inaction is not an option I came across Gideon Rachman’s blog on the FT and he makes a few interesting observations on Gaza. He noted the world’s reaction to the Gaza bombing to be ‘milder and more sympathetic’ (to Israel) than anticipated. He asks whether this is ‘because the major powers at the UN and the Quartet – in particular, Russia and the US – want to maintain the freedom to take similar military actions themselves, whether in Chechnya, Georgia or Pakistan?’ So there you have it, real-politik at the expense of innocent Palestinian lives. And what about our own British government’s actions? If you thought Blair was bad enough – if I remember correctly we usually left it to the US to defend Israel at the UN, while we abstained. It seems that all pretence is now over and we’re twining with the US in defending Israel’s corner. Continue reading Observations on the Gaza slaughter As I watch the news I sometimes wonder why Israel has focused so much on Gaza. Israel has over the years ’strangled’ the life out of the people in Gaza and its infrastructure. Even before the recent bombing and resulting massacre, Gaza ran out of food and fuel; sewage pipes burst open in the streets; people resorted to eating grass from the road, children and the vulnerable dying as there was no access to medical care and then came the fighter jets to slaughter Continue reading Gaza = Hamas |
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