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Kill the Internationals!
The
rationale of international protection rests upon the assumption that
Israel
cannot remain unaccountable for the killing of international
civilians as it is unaccountable for the killing of Palestinians.
Today this assumption has been challenged. International
Solidarity Movement
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British peace activist Thomas Hurndall was shot in the head at the start of a protest as he was rescuing Palestinian children from gunfire. |
The
sudden end of the so-called “liberation” of
Iraq
seems to be inconvenient to many people. To those who miss the
amusing announcements of Iraqi Information Minister al-Sahaf, and to
those who used the world’s undivided attention towards
Iraq
as a cover for all kinds of crimes that were committed during that
period, the end of the war was an unpleasant surprise. Israelis have
been killing everyone who stood in their way; not only Palestinians
but even international peace activists. Killing the innocent has
been “globalized” and Palestinian lands are now flooded with an
international blood cocktail.
April 13, 2003
, British citizen Tom Hurndall, 21, of
London
, was shot in the head while rescuing Palestinian children from
Israeli gunfire in Rafah,
Gaza
. He currently lies in a coma.
April 5, 2003
, American citizen Brian Avery, 24, of
New Mexico
, was shot in the face by a burst of Israeli machine gun fire in
Jenin.
March 16, 2003
, American citizen Rachel Corrie, 23, of
Olympia
,
Washington
, was run over by an Israeli bulldozer attempting to demolish a
Palestinian home in Rafah,
Gaza
.
November 23, 2002
, Irish citizen Caoimhe Butterly, 23, was shot in the leg while
trying to stop Israeli soldiers from shooting at Palestinian school
children in Jenin.
International
peace activists now join 1,900 Palestinians who have been killed by
Israeli soldiers and settlers since September 2000, mostly
unmentioned in the Zionist-controlled global media, which has
deviously used the so-called “War on Terrorism” to cover for
such brutal acts or to justify them as part of that war.
Israel
has a long record of assault on the
US
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Not
a single American or British Media tycoon honored those names. None
of the American or British media outlets that gush on about how the
“free world” should mercilessly fight those who threaten
“freedom,” “democracy,” “security” or the
“civilization” of the West. But why would they? Those activists
were on the side of the “barbarians,” the “terrorists.” Both
the
US
and the
UK
, so high on “human rights,” took no real action upon the deaths
of their own citizens.
But
should it surprise anyone when it’s not the first incident in the
history of American-Israeli relations where
America
turns a blind eye to Israeli violations, even when the victims are
American citizens? Should it astonish anyone when history still
keeps the records of how British governments ignored the acts of
Zionist mobs in
Palestine
against the British occupation forces who were paving the way for
Zionists to their “Promised Land”?
Israel
has a long record of assault on its biggest ally in the world. This
history goes back to 1954, when the Israeli government plotted to
blow up American installations in
Cairo
and
Alexandria
and blame it on Egyptian nationals. By chance the plot failed and
was uncovered. It was named the “Lavon” Affair after the man who
supposedly set it up, “Pinhas Lavon,” the Israeli Defense Chief.
In
1967,
Israel
purposefully attacked, with unmarked jet fighters and torpedo boats,
the USS Liberty, an American Navy vessel of the
Sinai Peninsula. The attack killed 31 American servicemen and wounded over 170.
They sought to sink the ship, kill those aboard and blame it on the
Egyptians to further sour Egyptian-American relations.
The
answer to this paradoxical irony is the immoral pragmatism of the
US
and
UK
policies that are being narrowed everyday to fit the interests of a
rotten political minority in power.
Waleed Arafa is an Egyptian/American freelance writer and professional architect. A regular contributor to several society and youth magazines, he has been a published writer since 1998. You can reach him at
waleedarafa78@hotmail.com
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