Once again, the international community stands polaxed while innocent civilians are murdered on both sides of the frontier, amid callous comments which demonstrate a total disrespect for the human condition, a total disregard for human life.
“They are Jews and must be destroyed”. “They shouldn’t have been there” (in their own homes). Two cold, callous comments showing a shocking degree of insensitivity towards the basic right of civilians to safety in their own homes. Whether by a non-State initiative (Hezbollah) or by the State (Israel), blatant acts of mass murder have been committed against defenceless civilian targets. In short, terrorism and war crimes.
With sickening predictability, the media circus swung into action and churned the story out in their sickeningly predictable ways, the right-wing “bought” press speaking about Hezbollah’s acts of terrorism, Israeli “strikes” and showing soundbites about Israel’s right to protect itself after unreasonable provocation. Other outlets broadcast reactions of horror to Israsel’s disproportionate response by a growing number of public officials. Some of us decided to undergo the usual gauntlet of hacker attacks, death threats on personal e-mail accounts, just because we stated the truth, namely that there have been terrorist attacks by both sides against both sides.
In short, this approach to the news produces messages of pure, seething hatred, the same type of actions as those undertaken by the IDF against Lebanese children, which provoke the same reactions.
And as usual, the international community looked on, impotent, tut-tutting.We remember Rwanda, we remember Bosnia, we remember Darfur. We also remember the two occasions when the international community jumped the gun – Kosovo and Iraq- and got it so terribly wrong (in the first case for not realising the problem was caused by the Albanian terrorists and the second, for launching a war outside the UNO without a casus belli).
Nobody can be satisfied by these three weeks of violence and nobody comes out of it well. Israel’s grossly disproportionate reactions to terrorist attacks have destroyed what little sympathy this State had left in the hearts and minds of the international community and has once again proved, amid yet more massacres, that it does not stand with right and reason, it does not stand for the rule of law and it does not stand by international norms of crisis management. It is as guilty of terrorism as anyone else. What would Tel Aviv have said if the UK had levelled civilian apartment blocks in Belfast after an IRA bomb attack, and then, shrugging its shoulders, with a derisory sniff, have claimed: “Well, they shouldn’t have been there, should they?”
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