Sunday, bloody Sunday by Pepe Escobar

[Jefferson23]

Middle East
May 17, 2011


It was a Sunday, bloody Sunday - with no uplifting U2 anthem to "celebrate" it. In Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, tens of thousands of Palestinians marched to the borders with Israel to mark the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba - the displacement that accompanied the creation of Israel.

The Israeli response, with "maximum restraint": killing 10 people in Lebanon, eight in Syria, two in Gaza and one in the West Bank, and injuring over 200. The Anglo-French-American consortium waging war on Libya because Colonel Muammar Gaddafi allegedly kills his own people was thunderously mute.

The United Nations urged "restraint" (compare it with the official Israeli "maximum restraint"). The Israeli daily Ha'aretz, oblivious to the irony, ran a headline "The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel's door". Yeah baby, it is, and that's why you're freaking out.

Always on target:

Israel - master practitioner of targeted assassination - can always get away with killing Arabs wholesale because it fears no UN Security Council resolution; the US always blocks them. Even if there were any, the US administration of target executioner-in-chief Barack Obama would not, for instance, instruct UN ambassador Susan Rice to abstain from a UN condemnation. That's the kind of abstention that could also help the UN, for instance, to force Israel into accepting a two-state solution with Palestine.

Forget about the UN Security Council - so eager to send the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on an attacking rampage on the side of a dodgy bunch of Libyan "rebels", effectively taking sides on a civil war - even considering dealing with Israel as it treats Iran, slapping it with economic sanctions until it starts complying with international law.

in full: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ME17Ak01.html


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