Terror in the name of the God of Israel...

The standing military of the United States most ardent ally, Israel has killed 9 peaceful humanitarian workers in international waters on ships carrying aid to starving gentiles in Ghaza. It was all done in the name of God as the Israeli soldiers storming the ships prayed to God for the success of their mission to stop food reaching the hungry people under the blessings of their priests.

Pro-Israeli organizations in America and all over the world are silent, the same way as Christians were silent when Jews were massacred by Hitler\'s mainly Christian soldiers in Germany. Those who claim to champion the cause of justice among the Israelis are justifying the killing and the strongest ally of the Jewish state is still studying the situation. What a shame.

What was done is inhumane and among the ugliest form of terrorism. It is terrorism sponsored by the state. No ifs and no buts. But some refuse to see this as inhumane. Probably it is because a gentile has no value in the eyes of those who claim that God has given them all the wisdom to decide and determine the status of everyone else.

The so called holy land, today, offers the most unholy scene. Everything, the divine guidance inspires humans to accomplish is violated. Peace, human dignity, human life has no meaning. What is even more ironic is that the conflict is among people who claim that they have the most comprehensive divine guidance for justice, peace and love.

Only a sick mind can see the other human suffer. For almost 60 years, a people have been kicked out of their land and placed in holes not even fit for insects. At will they have been killed, humiliated and tormented. Only a sick mind will let the people die in hunger and face starvation. And only a sick mind will stop relief reaching the injured and wounded.

That sick mind, in our world, today is represented by those who claim to be the defenders of the Jewish state. Jews in America owe it to Americans to distance them from this thinking. Palestinians have the same human rights that Jews and Christians have and they have the same right to live in peace and security as the Israelis have.

In the last 60 years the Israelis have created a myth of insecurity to their existence. They have always argued that their tiny state is surrounded by Muslims who pose a constant threat to them. Well, in the 2,000 years of their existence, Jews have found them selves on the verge of annihilation either by Christian Romans or Christian Europe. Never, in their presence among Muslims, they ever felt that their religious existence was ever under threat. This myth is perpetuated by their sympathizers all over the world. In the US, their lobbies propagate lies and use all tactics including intimidation and coercion to influence the opinion of the so called people\'s representatives.

From Aslam Abdullah's article in Radiance. More Here

Today we are all Palestinians

 

I wonder how many of you remember the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro way back in October 1985?

 
Four members of the Palestine Liberation Front took control of the liner off Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said.

It was a bungled operation in which the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard.

The incident created headlines around the world and polarized people over the Palestinian cause.

It also prompted lawmakers to create new legislation making it an international crime for anyone to take a ship by force.

And this is the reason for the brief history lesson -- under Article 3 of the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process.

The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence.

In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.

Any right to self-defense in such dramatic circumstances rests purely with the passengers and crew on board. Under international maritime law, you are legally entitled to resist unlawful capture, abduction, and detention.

What those on board the Freedom Flotilla did was perfectly legal. I believe they acted with great courage in the face of heavily armed Israeli Defense Forces commandos, while others might have thought their actions reckless.

Whatever your view, a number paid the ultimate price for their international right to resist and hundreds more were locked up in the Zionist regime, including my Press TV colleague Hassan al Banna Ghani, who still has of been freed.

Israel now stands virtually alone, having exposed itself as a pariah state.

I wrote an article last year calling them the Pirates of the Mediterranean after they had illegally boarded other aid ships, kidnapping crew and passengers.

Now I want you to ask yourself this question: If a group of Somali pirates had forced their way onto half a dozen humanitarian aid ships from the West, slaughtering around nine or 10 people and injuring scores more, what do you think the international reaction would have been?

Let me tell you. A NATO task force would by now be steaming toward the Horn of Africa, accompanied by a couple of drones and various members of the press to record the occasion.

(On a point of interest, the Achille Lauro sank in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia in 1994.)

So why is Israel allowed to get away with murder? In a premeditated act, the Zionist regime showed once again its total disregard for human life -- and international law.

There were pensioners, women, and children on board those ships, which were carrying bags of cement, electric wheelchairs, toys, medicines, and water purifiers for Gaza's people.

Realizing Israel had shot itself in the foot, the vile state's leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, then started shooting from the lip.

He asked us to believe that his troops were acting in self-defense. And then, 24 hours later, given time to come up with more lies, he told the world that the soldiers were armed with paintballs and had not expected to use their weapons. Not content with insulting our intelligence, he said his nice, cuddly IDF folk had only boarded the boats to carry out an inspection and inventory.

Then Mark Regev, the Zionist regime's political Pinocchio, backed him up. He reckons these evil-doers on board the boats grabbed the IDF's real guns and used them to fire on the soldiers.

These are the same soldiers that come from an elite, highly trained, crack squad… hmm. Mr. Regev, if that's the case, why would you send in the A-Team if they were just going to do an inventory?

And if they were such a hot squad how did a bunch of civilians manage to overpower them and give them a good slap?

Either Israeli soldiers fight like a bunch of old women -- which Hezbollah says they do -- or they intended to massacre those on board to make sure that no other peace activists get involved in trying to help the Palestinian people of Gaza.

Well if that was the aim, then it has failed. As I write this, some heroic friends of mine from the Free Gaza Movement are bound for Gaza now on board the appropriately named ship the Rachel Corrie.

In our thousands in our millions… today we are all Palestinians. 

From Yvonne Ridley's article in Tehran Times. More Here

Journalist Yvonne Ridley is also the European president of the International Muslim Women's Union and a committed peace activist who was on board the first boat to successfully break the siege of Gaza in 2008.