Gaza
Carnage And America's
Pro-Israel Policies
By Ubaid Mushtaq
20 January,
2009
Countercurrents.org
When the Mumbai tragedy took place everybody was quick to condemn the attackers and to call for an immediate action against them and had sympathy with the Indian people but, It is very sad that a captive population of Palestine is being killed by air as well as ground onslaughts by Israelis and there is no condemnation of Israeli terrorism that is on an even larger-scale than that perpetrated in Mumbai. Crossing into the Gaza strip with the help of tanks and heavy artillery fire with full air cover from gunship helicopters, Israel is showing to the world that its thirst for blood is not quenched yet as the innocent Palestinians including children; women and elderly continue to perish. It is surprising that the US, which lectures the world not to think in terms of racism, ethnicity and religion, and can influence a peaceful settlement, is openly siding with Israel, turning a blind eye to the brutalities being committed by the Jewish state against the struggling people of Palestine.
Despite many so called global calls for an immediate ceasefire there seems to be no end of Israeli atrocities probably because Israel is backed by a super power America. The US openly supports Israel in its war with Hezbollah. What explains this intimate relationship? The US has been pro Israel since the founding of Israel in 1947. The headquarters of international Zionism moved to the US from Britain after world war 2nd and US views Israel as the only state in the Middle East with democratic values and a strong military power to protect its interests. American Jews have a pervasive influence on the US political system and in national media and after 9/11; Israel saw the benefits of linking its local struggle with Palestine to the US global war on terror. On July 31, 2006, President George W Bush commented that the crisis between Israel and Palestine is a part of a larger struggle between forces of freedom and terror in the Middle East which shows American pro-Israel opinion. Another aspect that could account for Americans support for Israel is the inevitable Christian culture underlying the US and its inherent tie with Judaism. Christian Zionism sees the modern state of Israel as the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy and thus deserving of political, financial and religious support.
The issue of Palestine is not new and the world knows that people there are struggling for independence for the past five decades as many world bodies, including the UNO, have endorsed their right for freedom urging Israel to give a timeframe for the establishment of an independent state of Palestine but ever since, With the outbreak of the first intifada Hamas and Gaza become the leitmotif and metaphor throughout world.
Ever since Hamas toppled the Palestinian Authority (PA) in June 2007, the Israelis perturbed by militant nature of the organisation and have been planning to dismantle the whole Palestine by the wide ranging measures consisted of mobilising the international community to accept Hamas as a terrorist organisation, isolating Hamas internationally and regionally, instituting a complete economic blockade of Gaza, instigating a popular uprising against Hamas's political leadership and collating intelligence related to Hamas's security and military infrastructure.
The recent carnage has made the situation in the region more uncertain than was ever before during the last two decades. The prospects of peace have become murky, but the most tragic fact is the spineless reaction of the international community evoked by Israel's atrocious act of brutality. The Israel-Palestine conflict has a long history and its resolution demands patience, determination and political will. The need is to tailor some arrangement through peaceful means to settle the issue. What is needed from Arab world and other countries is a vigorous denunciation of Israeli war crimes...
(Ubaid
Mushtaq is a student of BBA, Islamic university of science
and technology kashmir: feedback on [email protected])
