"NATO's actions in Yugoslavia have absolutely nothing to do with Israel and the Palestinians, your inane claims notwithstanding. This may come as a surprise, but it's not up to you to dictate what NATO will or will not do. It's up to the heads of NATO. To take the actions against Israel"
Nothing to do with Israel and the Palestinians? The Kosovar Albanians and the Palestinians face very similar situations. Ther are two major differences between the two. One is the fact that their are some two million Palestinian refugees and only one million Kosovars. The other is the fact that the Plestinians how been waiting for in the Refugee camps for some fifty years for the world community to force compliance with the UN resolutions.
Let us investigate this idea a bit further! Let us look into the primary and fundamental motives of NATO and the US for their intervention in the Serbia-Kosovo conflict!
1.) Ethnic cleansing---The Yogoslavian Serbs were using terror and massacres to drive the ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo. Serbs are presented as racial and religious bigots for wanting to creating a greater Serbia composed only of Orthodox Serbs. Some one million ethnic Albanian were driven out of Kosovo and their homes destroyed and their land confiscated by the Serbs. Some one million ethnic Albanians are now living in refugees camps because of this action. This is the scenario presented by the NATO and the US government.
If we are to take the US and NATO at their words, these were the fundamental reasons given for bombing Yogoslavia. NATO and the world community were willing to employ force to restore the ethnic Albanians to their rightful property and homes.
Now, let us turn to Palestine.
1.) Ethnic cleansing--There are some two million ethnically cleansed Palestinians who have been living in Refugee camps for the last fifty years waiting for Israel to conply to the more than twenty UN Resolutions that demand the return of the Palestinians Refugees to their rightful land and homes. How were these Palestinians expelled from their land and homes? The Israelis deliberately used terror and massacres (Deir Yassin as one example) to force these indigenous people from their homes. These Palestinians had lived on their land for some thirteenth hundred years when Israel determined to make Palestine into an exclusively Jewish state. The UN has determined that approximately 85% of Israel consist of confiscated Palestinian land.
Like the Orthodox Serbs, the Israelis were determined to make a greater Israel into an exclusively Jewish homeland.
So, we have a situation where both Kosovar Albanians and Palestinians have been made refugees because of the massacres and ethnic cleansing of the xenophobic Serbs in Yogoslavia and Jews in Israel. Both countries are seeking to establish exclusive ethno-religious homelands and found it necessary to cleanse the undesirable ethnic Albanians and ethnic Palestinians from these homeland. So, NATO and the world community were willing to employ force to restore the ethnic Albanians to their rightful property and homes, why not employ the same techniques to force Israel to comply with UN resolutions.
Consequently, we can clearly see that the Yogoslav-Kosovar problem is identical to the Israeli-Palestinian problem! It certainly seems plausible to assume, that if US-NATO found force and bombing the best solution to the Yogoslav-Kosovar ethnic cleansing, it should also work to force Israel to comply with UN Resolutions in solving its ethnic cleansing policies.
In addition, we are presently using military force against Iraq to induce them to comply with a few UN Resolution that they are presently violating. Again, Israel is in violation of more than twenty UN REsolutions, so why not use the same techniques in forcing them to comply to the consensus of the world community.
The Kosovo-Iraqi bombing precedent may turn out, in the long run, to be a blessing for all mankind. |
