A monster beyond control?
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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Mary:
December 28th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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.
Anti-zionist Mohareb:
December 28th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
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.
wendy snith:
December 30th, 2009 at 1:46 am
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?
Abdul Wahid Osman Belal:
December 30th, 2009 at 3:46 am
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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Mary:
December 30th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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.
Afsar:
February 24th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
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..