Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Middle East Imperialism

I know you don't need me to tell you about Israel's raid on flotillas in Gaza. But really what the Hell do Israelis think they are doing? First they attack humanitarian aid workers and now they refuse to apologize. And they refuse to let an international team conduct a fair probation of events that transpired and innocent lives were lost. Israel claims it is fully capable of such a probation. Are others not? How can a perpetrator defending his case be the Chief Justice at the same time?

In the name of preventing Hamas extremists from arming themselves and strengthening their bunkers, it has imposed sanctions on even food items like jam and solantro. Really? I have no words to describe this  Israeli Imperialism on Palestinians. The attack Israel carried out last year killed hundred times or maybe even more civilians than did rockets fired from Palestine allegedly by Hamas extremists. How can anyone justify that?

And now that Turkey's citizens have been killed, Israel is suddenly starting to come under heat and its illegitimate sanctions in international water is coming under scrutiny. The world is crying out to stop this. How long will the United States government keep supporting Netanyahu's government? Only few months ago, Joe Biden suffered humiliation during his visit to Israel when Israeli authorities announced new plans for building more settlement areas. Israelis have money so they can buy lands from impoverished Palestinian civilians living on the border who want to sell their land and escape anyway from intolerable suffering and violence from both sides.

Is there any solution to this problem that has been deepening since UN's controversial proclamation of Jewish state of Israel. It seems to be polarizing more and more countries. Iran and several Middle East countries were already on Palestinian support and now Turkey, an influential country in the region seems to be joining the camp. We keep hearing about two state solutions from several actors like the US and the UK who are mediating talks between these two nations. But does it really mean anything without Israel showing some respect and halting controversial settlement plans till a peace deal is struck?

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