THE CRUEL BLOCKADE OF GAZA

Israel is supposed to be a western style liberal democracy. It is armed and funded by the United States and benefits by a web of preferential agreements with the European Union. The Jewish state gets much favoured treatment. Its murderous attack on the flotilla of people bringing humanitarian aid to the stricken beleaguered people of Gaza however show it to be anything but a western style democracy and certainly not deserving of the generous munificence which comes out of the hard earned income of western tax-payers' pockets.

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ISRAEL STARTS TO DISINTEGRATE

Israel's callous massacre of the crew members of the mercy ship carrying humanitarian aid to the stricken Palestinians imprisoned, starving and dying for want of medical attention on the Gaza strip is assuredly the beginning of the end for the rogue apartheid state set up by the arrogance of a waning British Empire some sixty two years ago in 1948. It was a state that was never meant to be, instituted in terms of the mistaken interpretation of a Balfour doctrine which never envisaged the territory becoming a Jewish homeland at the expense of the indigenous Palestinians. The British Government's White Paper of 1939 was designed to rectify the injustices of the Balfour Declaration towards the indigenous Palestinians and sought to ensure that the Jewish people, who were immigrating from Eastern Europe at a rate which alarmed the native Arabs, sponsored by a mainly American Zionist Group,would never exceed one third of the population of Palestine. Alas the Pyrrhic victory which ended the second world war saw a disintegrating British Empire too weakened to control the tide of Jewish immigrants into Palestine, simultaneously saw a corrupt American Zionist Lobby gain a stranglehold on the US government which subsequently became the protector of a nascent Jewish state which in 1948, to an uproar from the civilised world, saw it declare itself the state of Israel in a country known up to then as Palestine. The descendants of a tribe of semites which had lived in the region over 2000 years earlier had pitched up to claim sovereignty in terms of Koranic fairy tales which Einstein termed childish superstitions. It was as if the Picts had turned up and reclaimed Scotland. America which up until then had been the champion of anti-colonialism performed a volte face and toyed with the merits of having a surrogate state in the oil rich Middle East and itself became a colonial power providing Israel with armaments and an annual budget of US$2 billion. Thus began the tensions stemming from the Middle East manifesting themselves in the atrocities of 9/11, 7/7 , the Iraq war which has accounted for the genocide of over a million innocent civilians and the wholesale destruction of the infrastructure of the country and the emergence of sectarianism in what was the most advanced secular society in the region, the innumerable barbarities inflicted on the innocent Palestinians by the Israeli and the trillions lost to world economies in heightened airport security which sees an ageing travelling population forced to remove their shoes, belts, braces, and hearing aids all to ensure that Israel can be secure to practise apartheid in a country stolen from the indigenous Palestinian population. Now however Israel's tyrannies have become too much for the world to bear. Vox populii has given two fingers to the governments of Obama and Britain's coalition .The people have taken up the cudgels on behalf of the beleaguered Palestinians.It is the beginning of the end for Israel,and, sadly, for the United States, which never achieved the potential it showed as a power for good under the assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The spirit of Rachel Corrie is beginning to be triumphant. Requiescat in pace.