Onion Uttapam : India's Leading Satire Daily

1.6 million people are being imprisoned in a wide open-air jail, provided with almost no food or water to drink or wash to perform their daily ablutions. Of course there's no power too for running their homes. Add to it that any attempt to break-out from this jail is met with a hail of bullets. Reminds you of Auschwitz, isnt it? And Dachau, where about a 6 million Jews were allegedly killed during the so-called Holocaust, a myth that's been perpetrated over and over again on the the modern era humans that Goebbels would at once be proud and writhe in agony, in his grave. For he and his master were accused of exterminating the Jews. But where is all this happening? You guessed wrong if you guessed Somalia, Ethiopia. Its happening in Palestine. And why is the rest of the world keeping quiet and not protesting against the Israelis? Because the big bad boy of the world, Uncle Sam is backing them to the hilt. Even the Presidential-hopeful, Black, oops, Barrack Obama pledged his support to Israel after he won his nomination.

Bullies build on fear and it is fear that makes the world keep quiet.

Burma, Darfur, Zimbabwe and of course Tibet are routinely condemned in the world's leading media and by the governments too but if you speak about Afghanistan, Iraq or Palestine where people routinely die by the dozens whether to American bullets by Americans or by American bullets used by Israel in these places, specifically Palestine, not a whimper of protest is raised by anyone anywhere. Its as if all of this was happening in Mars and not on Earth. For example out there in Palestine, IDF tanks destroy homes, use the protesting Palestinians for routine target practice. Dead bodies dont move, dont they? And who is to stop them? No one. Their Big Brother knows all and turns a false-blibd eye and frins with pride everytime an Ye-Rab falls twitching down riddled with bullets ot a bunch of them die under the rubble, smashed to pulp. To rub salt into the wounded psyche of the Palestinians, God's chosen people, build settlements after the rubble is cleared out. Any living Palestinian that wants out is pushed back in or simply shot and labeled as a terrorist and his body left to rot for a few days under the harsh glare of the sun. The glare of international outrage is absent though at this violation of human rights. No body wants to be invaded for objection, like the Afghans did.

The Taliban, a legitimate Government, had actually offered to stash away Osama in a neutral country when he was asked to be extradited to the USA until the charges against him were proved. But the USA refused to even negotiate the handover and invaded illegally. At least in the case of the Soviets a faction of the then ruling junta had invited them to invade. International Law on extradition is settled."Extradition. The position in public international law is that countries are required to extradite except in three cases: their own nationals, fiscal offences and political offences. There is no denying that the offence Osama bin Laden was charged with was political and the Afghan government was thus perfectly within its rights in refusing to extradite him. Moreover, the US government never actually applied for extradition in proper legal form, they just ordered the Afghan government to hand him over. Finally, no rule of public international law permits a country which has been refused extradition, even wrongfully, to invade the refusing country".

What its Big Brother can do, Israel does better. It doesnt ask or order. It simply kills and takes. No wonder the rest of the international community look the other way when these two bullies of the world come out and play with their guns. Until recently that is. Blowing the lid off  the UN's[and the EU and Russia]decision, in 2006, to blockade Palestine as called for by USA and Israel, Jimmy Carter revealed that the document was drafted well in advance by the USA and not a single word was changed. At that point in time, the USA was firmly entrenched in Iraq and Afghanistan and were shooting up the "fucking-hajis" and "ragheads" as the USMC refers to ordinary Iraqis and Afghans. And the western world, timidly signed on the dotted line.

Along with Carter, Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner the condemnation of the Israeli Government has finally begun to stir the collective conscience of the rest of the world. Stirred, not shaken yet. Still not falling in line, the Europeans are dithering, perhaps waiting for some sign of the ill-wind that's blowing to blow the other way, notwithstanding the "human rights crime" tag that Carter has attached to the current situation. They apparently are quite willing to act as vassals to the USA. After suffering the ignonmity of being refused, alongwith his delegation from the UNHRC to investigate the killings of 19 people belonging to a single family in 2006 by Israeli rocket-fire in a small town called Beit Hanoun, Tutu entered via Egypt. And his conclusions were jarring to the puppet media in the USA. Calling the killings a "massacre" and Israel's explanation as something that "fell short of accountability" he added that the general situation in Palestine was "abominable and something you would not wish on your worst enemy." The problem with the World's complicity is that even after January'09 when the new President takes oath the foreign policy will not change when it comes to Palestine and the Palestinians will continue to suffer unless a miracle happens.

In today's polarized[?] world, David cannot slay a Goliath.

Comments (2)

bigstoner said:

The venerable anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a ban on the Zimbabwe cricket team playing in England while Robert Mugabe remains as the country's president. Tutu, who will deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket lecture at Lord's tonight. "I would say it is a non-violent pressure that can be brought to bear. People will say Mugabe doesn't play cricket but the more you make him aware that he has become a pariah the better," Archbishop Tutu told the Guardian. "I believe that a significant part of the population in Zimbabwe would say [the cricketers] should not be here, because you are lending a legitimacy and respectability to a country that is in a shambles because of one person."

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June 10, 2008
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essbee said:

	The roles have been reversed.. erstwhile goliaths are now davids and davids have become today's goliaths..
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June 05, 2008
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