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Whose side are you on in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? Perhaps you feel that Israel has every right to defend itself against the homemade rockets Hamas and other Palestinian freedom fighters (terrorists?) have been firing across the Gaza/Israel border, or maybe you consider both sides equally to blame – that’s it’s time they all grew up and began respecting each other’s position?

It’s hardly surprising if you hold either of the above viewpoints. Both Israel and the US have worked hard over the years at suppressing the truth about the conflict. Israel even rewrites its school history books so young Jewish minds are thoroughly medicated, with a sanitized version of Israel’s history.

The truth is somewhat different. There are some Israelis appalled by their nation’s actions against the Palestinians. They are usually secular Jews. Most Israelis, regard the Palestinians as something less than human. For years, their government has forced the Arabs to live like rats in a sewer, eking a living from farming the poor soil, always bowing the knee to their Israeli masters.

The idea of a one, or two, state solution has been played along with for decades. It’s not the intention of Israel to accept either proposition. While US politicians and European governments consistently mouth empty rhetoric, dangling the prospect of a free Palestinian society before Arabs like a carrot just out of reach of the donkey, they turn blind eyes to the interminable encroachment of Israeli “settlements”, as the Jewish nation inexorably expands into the Palestinian territories.

Expansion is the focus of these “Chosen People of Jehovah”. According to their myths and legends the god Jehovah gave them all this land, and it is their right to reclaim it.

Those non-Jews presently living on this “Holy Land” are merely rodents to be exterminated, or driven elsewhere.

So Israeli soldiers use them for target practice, and are captured doing so on video shot by courageous international human rights activists.

One such human rights activist, in a yellow reflective vest, shouts through a megaphone pleading with the Israelis to stop shooting at the unarmed and defenseless Palestinian farmers, desperately trying to harvest their crop of parsley.

In this incident, on February 18th 2009, they shot and wounded a Palestinian farmer in the leg. On January 27th 2009, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 27 year old, unarmed, Palestinian farmer. Another incident, on February 5th, was also captured on camera. Mercifully, on this occasion, no-one was injured. [see link]^[1]

In all these cases the Palestinians were on their own land, unarmed, creating no provocation, and at least 600 – 700 meters from the Israeli border.

Needless to say, no senior Israeli military officer, nor any government agent, makes any attempt to stop it.

No doubt, to “God’s Chosen People” it’s more fun than a turkey shoot.

^{[1] “Farming under fire” YouTube, February 7th 2009}

^{NOTE: Once again, my thanks go to This Old Brit for providing the links and information.}

Filed under: Israel lies, cameras don’t

It was announced recently that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir.

The communication came as no great surprise, though much discussion has taken place, both in the media and in political circles, as to whether it was a wise decision, given the circumstances.

Aid agencies, in particular, expressed concern that millions already displaced by the conflicts in Sudan would suffer if al-Bashir expelled them in retaliation for the ICC’s announcement.^[1]

As expected, this is exactly what occurred. Yesterday, ten foreign aid agencies were told to leave the country.

Was the arrest warrant, then, a serious mistake on the part of the ICC?

Undoubtedly, the answer to that question has to be: no.

Neither the ICC, nor western governments, can be held responsible for the dastardly acts of Sudan’s crazed leader. There is no doubt of al-Bashir’s culpability. He is guilty of the most vile war crimes.

A known serial killer on the loose with hostages would never be pardoned in exchange for their release. Al-Bashir is the worst kind of serial killer. He must be brought to justice, if the rule of law is not to be mocked by every petty tyrant throughout the world.

One can only hope the suffering of innocents in Sudan, who have already paid dearly, will not further increase due to the wanton brutality of Omar al-Bashir. He must surely be haunted by the eventual capture and trial of Milosevic, Karadzic, and other Bosnian war criminals, some of whom evaded detention for many years.

Al-Bashir’s initial reaction to the news of the warrant was one of disdain and scorn. These are emotions useful to hide an underlying fear.

Two other arrest warrants are presently in force in the region. Two years ago, the ICC issued warrants for the Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Ahmed Haroun, and the Janjaweed militia leader, Ali Abdul Rahman.

Let us hope it will not be long before all three are incarcerated at The Hague, awaiting trial, and a comeuppance that is grossly overdue.

^{[1] “Arrest warrant draws Sudan scorn” BBC, March 5th 2009}

Filed under: Copping the war criminals

Many would question the existence of good and evil, certainly in a Biblical sense. The human ability to fail, while attempting the perfection demanded by Biblical ‘goodness’, needs no clarification here.

If, however, evil exists and can take on material form –

– then you’re looking at it now.

In Pernambuco, Brazil, lives a little nine year old girl. She has been sexually abused and raped by her stepfather since the age of six. Recently, the girl was taken to hospital suffering from stomach pains. It was discovered she was pregnant with twins.

Doctors decided the girl was too young for her body to cope with such a pregnancy. They made the wise decision to abort the foetuses.

Meanwhile, the stepfather disappeared, but has since been arrested.

For carrying out the abortion on this unfortunate child, the doctors involved have been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church. For agreeing to the operation, which saved her daughter’s life, the mother has suffered a similar fate.

The character whose evil countenance stares back at us from the image above is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho. The decision to excommunicate these people was his, when his attempts to prevent the abortion, failed.

I have only one thing to say to Archbishop Sobrinho:

Sir, I despise your beliefs, your notions of ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’, your distorted and fabricated vision of a God incapable of mercy, compassion, or even interest, in what you consider to be His greatest creation.

You, sir, are sick of mind and twisted by your own arrogance and egotism. You ruin countless lives on Earth by justifying the myth of eternal life hereafter, a myth that lines your ample pockets and allows you control of others, weak and in need of love you cannot even comprehend.

I am so glad your ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ do not exist, except that is, in the dark, forbidding, caverns of your soul. For, if I were to find myself one day in the same Heaven as yourself, I fear it would be only moments before I was transported to that ‘other place’, for the mortal sin of throttling any remaining eternal life from your bloated, evil, body.”

Both the little girl’s mother, and the doctors responsible for saving her life, should rejoice to be freed from the bondage imposed on them and millions of others who know no better, by that despicable and ungodly institution existing under the misnomer of the ‘Roman Catholic Church’.

^{[1] “Rape row sparks excommunications” BBC, March 5th 2009}

Filed under: Incarnate evil