A monster beyond control?
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip – in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked – it's not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel's on-going collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians, 53% of whom are children.
What is actually happening in the blockaded Gaza Strip, and less obviously on the occupied West Bank, is the continuation by stealth of Zionism's ethnic cleansing of Palestine. My friend Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel's leading "revisionist" (meaning honest) historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, would and has put it another way. What we are witnessing is, in his words, "genocide in slow motion." And that, really, is what the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in.
The question that provokes in my mind is: Why, really, are the major powers (and others) allowing it to happen?
The only answer that makes some sense to me is this. They have concluded, but cannot say, that nuclear-armed Israel, with the assistance of the Zionist lobby in all of its manifestations, is a monster beyond control.
In my analysis it's possible to identify the moment in history when the major powers abandoned any hope they might have had of containing Zionism's colonial ambitions.
It came, the moment, in the immediate aftermarth of the 1967 war.
We, representing 1,362 individuals from 43 countries arriving in Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, are pleading to the Egyptians and your reputation for hospitality.
Gaza Freedom March congratulates the Government of Egypt on its change of policy to allow international missions into Gaza during December with the decision to allow the Viva Palestina convoy to go into Gaza on December 27, 2009.
