Jan 01 2009
Does Israel Want To Be Surrounded By Enemies?
Today, on the first day of 2009, I’m publishing a guest post by a writer for one of my other websites. He’s a student of Israel-Palestine issues, and does a lot of reading on the issues involved in their conflicts. He writes regularly for some other websites also, including Lew Rockwell and the Atlantic Free Press. Here is his latest article about Israel’s latest war with Gaza. The odd thing about Israel attacking Gaza like this is that they do this every few years. I was looking for some background material for something on this war last night, looking for a story of how the US recently blocked a UN resolution for an immediate ceasefire (a ceasefire other countries are still working on.) I found this article on Breitbart which says in part:
“The United States vetoed a UN draft resolution that would have called for an end to Israeli attacks and “disproportionate use of force” in the Gaza Strip as well as for the release of a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
The Security Council resolution received 10 votes, one against from the United States with four abstentions, French Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, the council president for July, announced.
Explaining his negative vote, US Ambassador John Bolton described the text as “unbalanced” and was “not only untimely but also outmoded” because of the attacks against Israel by Lebanese Hezbollah militants and UN chief Kofi Annan’s decision to send a crisis team to the region.
He said adoption of the resolution would have exacerbated tensions in the region. . . . “
It’s dated July 13 2005! One vote against it — the United States. So the names have changed, but the problems are still nearly exactly the same. Hamas flings some home made rockets at Israel that usually hurt no one. Israel responds with tanks and days of Air Force bombings that kill hundreds. It seems rather ridiculously unbalanced, doesn’t it? Tonight the death toll in Gaza is 440, with reports that Israel bombed a school yesterday filled with kids. I get most of my up-to-the-minute information on this war from Twitter. I’m following several Palestinians there and in other countries, in touch with their connections who are there, so they are reporting the news that CNN won’t. (You can follow me on Twitter at this link).
Here is the article about Israel’s latest war by Tom Chartier.
Israel’s Iron Fist
By Tom Chartier
We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done,
no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not.
There is no other morality.
Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky- Founder of the Israeli Right – Nov. 4, 1923
In his historic essay The Iron Wall Russian immigrant to Palestine Vladimir Jabotinsky succinctly outlined the Zionist plan of colonization. His logic was nearly impeccable as was his honest assessment of the challenges Zionism faced in coming to an agreement with the indigenous Arab population. Only behind an Iron Wall of brute force and oppression destroying any hope would the Arabs ever agree to peaceful co-existence with the flood of Jewish immigrants seeking a Jewish National Homeland.
Jabotinsky was brutally honest in his logic, however twisted. Where his assertion that “Zionism is moral and just” comes from I can only speculate. Since when has colonization of another people’s land been moral and just? Jabotinsky made a frightening statement implying a divine right where the end justifies the means. Where is the morality or justice in this?
