Saturday 24 August 2023
Palestine, my heart bleeds
OK, so quite some time since I wrote a, “The World This Week From Mennies “blog. The reason is that it is difficult to know where to start, with the outrage and mass slaughter that is going on before our eyes in occupied Palestine and as a voter and citizen of the UK, I, like most of you who are reading this are vicariously responsible for what is probably the worst atrocity of the last 100 years at least. Well possibly except the dropping by the US of not just one but two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Make no mistake about it, but if due process takes place through the International Court of Justice, eventually every official and politician who has assisted in this unfolding genocide will be indicted and face severe sentences.
Do I think, in all honesty, that will happen? No, as I have no faith in the processes involved in fully supporting the international courts, and as you can see now, although there is a judgement that Israel is illegally occupying large areas of Palestine and carrying out activities which can be tantamount to committing Genocide with a pending arrest warrant for Netanyahu about to be served, there is a concerted effort by several countries to stop this process by insisting that the ICJ has no jurisdiction when it comes to Israel.
Doesn’t anyone think it strange that Israel always seems to be different when it comes to justice? Israel, the country that has slaughtered more than 40,000 innocent civilians in Palestine in the last 11 months, a country that was invented in 1948 because of a decision taken in 1917 in a letter from the UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothchild who was at that time the leader of the British Jewish community. Below is the letter from the British Foreign Secretary offering “ a home” for Jews.
At that time Britain had a mandate to govern Palestine on behalf of the League of Nations, which was the forerunner of the United Nations. You will note that at that stage it makes no mention of the creation of Israel, nor does it indicate that anyone would be displaced. It specifically states that any arrangement would not be to the detriment of civil or religious concerns of the Palestinian people.
Now around this time, Jews had been settling in Palestine as they had been doing, coming and going for thousands of years. Among the world leaders who were quite supportive of this arrangement leading up to the formation of Israel in 1948 was Adolf Hitler who set up a procedure for Jews to emigrate to Palestine in the 1930’s. The arrangement was that he supported the emigration process but they could only take a percentage of their money with them. The balance had to remain in German banks but could be used to trade with Germany.
During the lead-up to 1948, the Jewish community became quite entrenched and they began to displace Palestinians from various villages and townships. This was disrupted by the British troops who maintained law and order. Several Jewish terrorist organizations were formed such as Irgun and Stearn Gang who fought both against the British mandate and the Palestinians who they continuously displaced. One of the most heinous actions of these terrorist groups was the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946, which resulted in over 90 deaths. The hotel was used by the British as an administration Centre.
So here we are, Israel was invented in 1948, and they have continuously slaughtered Palestinians in what has been a continuous creeping genocide, They have decided to speed up the process now and at the same time involve America in a war with Iran, because if they don’t do it now Iran will have nuclear weapons just like Israel and the game will be up.
Well, I have a feeling that Iran does have at least access to nuclear weapons and they are playing a very astute game at the moment as they taunt Israel with the prospect of retaliation for the latest terrorist act by Israel on Iranian land.
America is, as usual, doing what it is told by Israel and has up to one-third of its fleet stationed in the Middle East. On the face of it, it is not a very wise move as these days ships are really easy targets.
What do we have to look forward to? Probably yet another of America’s endless wars. Look back at every war that has been initiated in the Middle East., Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. All have been carried out on behalf of the Greater Israel project.
In the words of Pete Seager “when will they ever learn”
Bob Costello 