
On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip – in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked – it’s not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel’s on-going collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians, 53% of whom are children.
What is actually happening in the blockaded Gaza Strip, and less obviously on the occupied West Bank, is the continuation by stealth of Zionism’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine. My friend Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “revisionist” (meaning honest) historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, would and has put it another way. What we are witnessing is, in his words, “genocide in slow motion.” And that, really, is what the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in.
The question that provokes in my mind is: Why, really, are the major powers (and others) allowing it to happen?
The only answer that makes some sense to me is this. They have concluded, but cannot say, that nuclear-armed Israel, with the assistance of the Zionist lobby in all of its manifestations, is a monster beyond control.
In my analysis it’s possible to identify the moment in history when the major powers abandoned any hope they might have had of containing Zionism’s colonial ambitions.
It came, the moment, in the immediate aftermarth of the 1967 war.
Contrary to Zionism’s version of the story, it was a war of Israeli aggression not self-defense. As I document in some detail in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Israel’s military and political leaders knew the Arabs were not intending to attack.
That being so, what the major powers ought to have said to Israel (in the diplomatic language of a Security Council Resolution and more explicitly behind closed doors) is something like: “Aggression cannot be rewarded. Aggressors cannot keep territory conquered in war. You are now required to get the hell out of it without laying down conditions for your withdrawal.”
To drive home the point, they could and should have reminded Israel of what President Eisenhower said to the people of America when he demanded Israel’s unconditional withdrawal from Egyptian territory after its collusion with Britain and France in 1956. Eisenhower, the first and the last American president to contain Zionism, said this:
“If we agree that armed attack can properly achieve the purposes of the assailant, then I fear we will have turned back the clock of international order. We will have countenanced the use of force as a means of settling international differences and gaining national advantage… If the UN once admits that international disputes can be settled using force, then we will have destroyed the very foundation of the organisation and our best hope for establishing a real world order.”
As it happened, the major powers could not say that to Israel in 1967 because the Johnson administration had colluded with Israel to the extent of giving it the greenlight to smash Eygpt’s armed forces, in the hope that a humiliating defeat for them would lead to the overthrow of President Nasser.
But also true is that President Johnson sought and obtained an assurance that Israel would not take advantage of the war situation to grab Jordanian and Syrian territory. It was because some in the Johnson administration (probably Defense Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff) didn’t trust Israel to keep its word that the U.S. spy ship, the Liberty, was stationed off the Israel/Gaza coast to listen to IDF movement orders. And it was because Israeli Defense Minister Dayan didn’t want Johnson to know that he intended to take the West Bank and the Golan Heights that he, Dayan, ordered the attack on the Liberty. (The full story of that attack and Johnson’s cover-up of it is also in my book, in a chapter headed The Liberty Affair – “Pure Murder” on a “Great Day”).
Despite that, the major powers, including and led by America, could still have acted firmly to contain Zionism’s colonial ambitions. They could have said to Israel something like: “We can just about live with the fact that you will retain the newly occupied Arab territories as a bargaining chip, to be exchanged for peace with your Arab neighbours, but we will not allow you to settle those territories. Not one building. If you defy us on this matter, the Security Council will authorize enforcement action as necessary to oblige you to comply with international law.”
In what became Security Council Resolution 242, it was the failure of the major powers to read the riot act to Israel on the matter of not settling the newly occupied territories that marks the moment when they, the major powers, became resigned to the fact that the Zionist state, assisted by its awesomely powerful global lobby, was a monster they could not control. (They could slap it on the wrist from time to time but not control it).
The lesson of the cold-blooded attack on the Liberty was that there is nothing the Zionist state might not do, to its friends as well as its enemies, in order to get its own way. (In my book I explain, on the basis of a conversation with Dayan, the real reason for Israel’s decision to acquire a nuclear arsenal. It was to have the deterrent threat capability of saying to its friends, “Don’t push us further than we are prepared to go or we’ll use these things.”)
So in the full light of the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, it’s not surprising that the major powers (and others) are today complicit, more by default than design I say, in Zionism’s crimes.
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It is true that Israel is a loose cannon in the middle east, by virtue of its "ambiguous" nuclear arsenal. It enjoys this status, knowing it controls the area under the threat of nuclear attack should Israel feel sufficiently "threatened" by its imagined enemies. It is for this reason that it fears even the possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons capabilities. The balance of power will shift away from Israel.
Israel is much more dangerous than Iran because although Iran has a history of acting with restraint, Israel is a violent and aggressive country that does not appear to think before it kills. The only thing preventing Israel from deploying a nuclear bomb in Gaza is its close proximity. But I am certain that when Israel attacks Gaza again, it will be with a ferocity well beyond Operation Cast Lead. This will be the outcome of the US choosing to bury the Goldstone Report because by doing so, it has given Israel carte blanche to continue its genocide of the Palestinians.
It is not 1967 but 1948--the birth year of fascist Israel--that marks the beginning of "zionism's colonial expansion". Ever since the world has not experienced a single day of peace. This fascist machinery is not a "democracy" but a moral stain on the face of this good earth. It is the source of all conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia. It has cleverly manipulated the military and political resources of the United States for pursuing its expansionist project in the region. If this evil parasite continues on its current criminal course, ultimately, sooner than later, and no matter the scale of the slaughter of Palestinians, some form of a "fat boy" is bound to get through. And when that happens the stain will erode leaving behind an eternal mark of dishonor and shame on the name of God's "chosen people". For the sake of global peace and the lives of millions of innocent jews, let us hope a constellation of forces materializes to bring this beast to its senses before it consumes itself and others out of existence.
UK RUSSIA CHINA US AND cONGRESS burRIED the Goldstone Report because IF APPLIED IT WILL EXPOSE THEIR OWN PEOPLE
Therefre this report is not good for anybody fighting
islam terror and as such has to be shelved
do you want goldstone on US UK activities in afgan?
Israel India and United States with the support of their European
allies and "with us" or "against us" are dreaming of conquest of the world in general for Greater Israel, United India (Akhand Bharat) and One World Government imposing their political ideology like Zionism, Hindutva and New World Order, and specially Muslim countries examples of which are immoral and illegal occupation of Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq and Afghnaistan
on account of their increasing population, attraction and appeal of Islam that is in gaining conversions in order to satisfy their lust for power and to rob them of their naturally rich mineral wealth and resources and geographically strategic position they occupy that is an eye-sore for them.
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Islam is not a factor; it is not the objective of Zionism or of the Americans to crush the religion of Islam. It just so happens that the resources (land, oil, natural gas and water) coveted by them both are located in lands populated by Muslims.
I think the overweening sympathy given to the Jews post-World War II has bred a monster, and the Zionists are that monster. They have played on the Holocaust and successfully portrayed themselves as perpetual victims, which has given them a cloak behind which they have been able to commit many crimes with impunity. The Israeli nuclear weapons program is only one case in point. There is no other nation in the world who would have been permitted to create such a program under subterfuge, and while refusing to sign the NPT or allow inspection of its arsenal. This tiny, crazy nation has in its possession the power to destroy the planet, and no one blinks an eye.
If Israel is a monster beyond control, is the situation hopeless? Or maybe what is needed is a different leadership in the UN, or in the US - leadership which is not afraid to pull the monster's teeth.
It now seems odd, the west have got a golden opportunity in Iran obtaining a nuclear arsenal and somewhat bringing Israel into control. That they deliberately seek to halt this opportunity, this is most likely due to the sheer influence enjoyed by the zionist lobbies in the western world. e.g. the COFI and LFOI in teh UK..