The world reacted with horrified shock yesterday to an Israeli army attack on Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip that killed 18 civilians, eight of them children. Condemnations poured in from the United Nations, the European Union, the Middle East and Europe over what Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called a "black day".
Of the quartet overseeing the moribund Middle East peace process - the EU, the UN, Russia and the United States - only Washington refrained from harsh criticism.
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Some are less equal than others
Here’s how the charade will play itself out. Over the next few weeks suicide attacks will take place in the occupied territories in response to yesterday’s cowardly Israeli massacre in Beit Hanun. Israeli civilians will probably die, and there will be mass uproar in the world media. CNN and Fox News will go into overdrive, with round the clock ‘balanced’ coverage.
The sheep from Washington and London will trot out the same tired, offensive lines about not dealing with terrorists and Israel having the right to ‘defend’ itself. Worst of all, people who know nothing about Middle Eastern politics, and care even less, will suddenly be transformed into seasoned experts and start pointing their fingers at those ‘**** Palestinian terrorists’ again.
Because, you know, terrorism exists in a vacuum. There are no reasons behind extemism except for the irrational hatred that exists in the hearts of those freedom-hating savages for the peace-loving people of Israel, and the west of course. ‘These’ people take up terrorism because it’s fun, they just love blowing themselves up. It’s got nothing to do with being oppressed for 50 years, with being humiliated beyond all human tolerance on a daily basis. Nothing at all to do with seeing your parents, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters mutilated while you have to suffer in silence.
But let’s give everyone the chance to show their humanity here. Will the moral indignation from the so-called politically correct ‘neutrals’ slamming Israel for the deaths of innocent women and children, materialise? Not likely. The Palestinians will be condemned, and no amount of Israeli oppression or crimes will justify their reactions. Two wrongs don’t make a right, we’ll be told. But only if it’s in Israel’s favour. When Palestinian children die, there will be no sanctions, no invasions, no ‘wars on’ anything. It’s collateral damage, a necessary evil in the campaign to rid the world of these horrible ‘terrorists’.
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