January 18, 2009
By Jay Janson
It is not Zionist Israelis that deserve prime condemnation, for they have obviously been acting out of an somewhat understandable emotionally unbalanced state of mind. No, it is the so called "international community" made up of First World authorities, the UN Secretariat, and civil society movements that participated in the few debates they agreed to have while children were slaughtered, that merits our prime condemnation
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It is not Zionist Israelis who should be receiving prime condemnation, for they are obviously acting out of an somewhat understandable emotionally unbalanced state of mind, and have been doing so since the unfair partition was forced upon the entire population of British occupied Palestine by the colonial powers, ashamed of their indifference during the Holocaust.
No, it is the so called "international community" that merits our prime condemnation; an "international community" made up of First World authorities, the UN Secretariat, and civil society movements that presently participate in the few debates they agree to have in a primitive fashion with lies, fabrications and deceit, while children are slaughtered.
The great majority of the citizens of this commercialized industrialized world community of wealth manipulation and power have watched as their governments acquiesced and accepted Israeli crimes against humanity. They watched inhibited to react in spite of seeing through conglomerate media attempts at justifying the massive amount of death. And most of us dare not speak out for we still hear the ghosts of the holocaust victims silently screaming, pleading against the apathy of the international community at the time of their round up and executions.
Under the frighteningly phantasmic protective excusability of a planetary-sized black umbrella of ghastly and nightmarish, but inescapably real, memories of a mad horror in Europe, the violent Zionist conquerers of Palestine are allowed to go forward in grisly payback.
There is little point in condemning the actions of those gone insane, who are unable to remember that we all, each, and every one of us, are going to die relatively soon. Better we try to understand what is behind the insane behavior. Hastening the day for thousands of fellow human beings is merely one symptom of the irrationality of the mentally deranged.
Better yet, would be to condemn the heartless connivence of politicians in 'the international community who excuse the insanity of wildly uncontrolled mass-homicide, rained down on so many innocent brothers and sisters, at the very same moment that the individuals in command are being accused of crimes against humanity in the International Court in the Hague.
Would that citizens of today's 'international community' could avoid a repeat of the kind of disinformation after World War II, when the corporate capitalist world was able to explain away the involvement of European and American industrialists and their colleagues in governments, and spare them condemnation, and even the mildest criticism of complicity.
We watch in frozen horror Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warmly shaking hands smilingly over and over again with those sons and daughters of Europe who command a heavily armed high-tech air force, navy and army bombarding mercilessly the tightly packed and imprisoned Mid-eastern population of Gaza.
We patiently wonder if the Secretary General would brave entering air and ground attacked Gaza to warmly shake hands with those elected government leaders not yet assassinated for having allowed the firing of rockets into southern Israel to protest the years long unending Israeli blockade - cognizant of the fact that these rockets had caused no fatalities or serious injuries prior to the Israeli Gaza bombing and invasion which as of latest count has taken more than one thousand two hundred lives.
Instead of all-smiles photo op posing for cameras to the enormous comfort and propaganda effort of the Israelis making war on a captive population, would not a compassionate and serious, perhaps even grim, countenance be more appropriate out of respect for the huge toll of dead children? Enthusiastic repeating handshakes for video cameras, be they handshakes with anyone involved in a such a man made catastrophic human tragedy - is this not a bizarre message to the world audience and to that 'international community' the Secretary represents.
Authors Website: http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com
Authors Bio:
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident Voice; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents; Minority Perspective, UK,and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 19 nations. Dissident Voice supports this website with link at the end of each issue of its newsletter.