Certainly Israel is hardly innocent but it isn't targeting civilians and trying to kill as many of them as it can.
In just the same way, we are responding to the latest
massacre in Israel according to the rules of the State
Department, CNN, the BBC and Downing Street. Arafat has got
to come alive, to get real, to perform his duty as the West's policeman in the Middle East. President Mubarak does it in Egypt; King Abdullah does it in Jordan; King Fahd does it in Saudi Arabia. They control their people for us. It is their duty. They must fulfil their moral obligations, without any reference to history or to the pain and the suffering of their people.
The history and the suffering don't justify targeting bombs at Pizzarias, or planes at skyscrapers. All that action does is increase the suffering for everyone. If they put as much effort into trying to find peace and stability as they do in to hatred and violence they might actually get a chance to end things like the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and to avoid things like the American bombing of Afghanistan.
The reality is that the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is the last colonial war. The French thought that they were fighting the last battle of this kind.
The French could go home to France. Israel has no where else to go. If there was no violence and calls for the destruction of Israel then maybe they could trust enough to allow the existance of an indpendent Palestinian state, but under the current circumstances it would be crazy to give an enemy that they are at war with a base to attack from.
Mahmat had been asleep in his home in the village of Kazikarez six days ago when an bomb from an American B-52 fell on his village. He was asleep in one room, his wife with the children. His son Nourali died, as did Jaber – aged 10 – Janaan, eight, Salamo, six, Twayir, four, and Palwasha – the only girl – two.
That is tragic, but thousands died in New York, and the organization that did this can not be allowed to operate unmolested. So war happens, and unfortuantly innocents get killed in war. With our technology and training we can mimize civilian casualtees, but not stop them all together.
And hopefully a better Afghanistan will come from this, and a better life for millions of Afghans.
Tim |
