UN and the green light of terror

Well it seems that the Israelis have accomplished their objective in murdering the UN observes in southern Lebanon. The UN announced it will pull out its observers, thus leaving the southern regions of Lebanon. This will give Israel a free hand in “liquidating” any suspected Hezbollah. Of course the test whether you are Hezbollah is whether you have a distaste or hatred of Israel, something very common NOW, thanks to the indiscriminate killings perpetrated by Israel. This of course done on the heals of the passive approval of a multi-national conference charged with stopping the vicious attack on Lebanon.
The passive agreement was not the will of the majority but of the big bully in the room, the US who insistent that the final wording of the communiqué state an eventual end to hostilities as opposed to an immediate end. This was done because the US policy is that any aggression, how ever lopsided, misdirected or inhumane is okay as long as you say it is to stop terrorism; Terrorism, the orgasm word of the US presidents George W. Bush’s Administration.
I found it interesting that many people, including our own Prime Minister Stephen Harper, claim Israel has full rights to do what it is doing to defend itself. But at what point do you say you have over done it. "It's been horrific... There is something fundamentally wrong with the war, where there are more dead children than armed men," Mr Egeland said in an interview with the BBC.
For those who thought it was just an act of defence, the comments made by Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon are illuminating. He stated that Israel wants further attacks on infrastructure, including electricity supplies. Ramon had earlier infuriated the EU by claiming that the Rome meeting on Wednesday, which failed to produce a unified call for an immediate ceasefire, had given Israel the green light to continue.(BBC) To put the war in context for the Israeli government, Ramon was quoted as saying in an interview Israeli radio on July 13 “a war waged by the sovereign state of Lebanon against the sovereign state of Israel” (Regum)
It seems the majority of Canadians are appalled at Israel’s reaction (the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the killing of innocents in Lebanon) to what some would state as measured and justifiable actions against Israel (the detention of some Israeli solders and the deaths of tens of Israel, all of which started after Israel’s initial overreaction) (see previous blog “Forbissima chalcious mishigas“June 30, 2006 for clarification on this).
Our prime minister continued on his plan of destroying Canada international reputation by suggesting, in an interview yesterday, that the Canadian peace keeper, who was killed by a directed attack by Israeli forces on the UN observation post, was the fault of the UN. That the UN was asking for trouble by keeping the observers there.
This is much like the classic defence used by sexist who claim that rape victims ask for it and probably had it coming. This not only continues to present to the world a more fascist view of Canada; defames the ideals of Peace Keepers (the one great thing Canada has created for peace); undermines the authority of the only international body wanting to save lives and create peace in the middle east; places Canada more firmly in the US orbit (and Harpers plans fore eventual annexation of Canada by Texas); no it also is an insult to every Canadian alive and dead because of is absolute lack of anger, compassion or outrage at the death. Even if he did think it was and accident, he should have been overflowing with compassion for the family of the fallen peacekeeper and should have been praising the work he was doing. But no, all Harper can hear is the soft whispers of him mentor, Bush.

I would suggest us grabbing Harper and giving him to the Americans, but in fact they already have his mind and soul, what would they want with the body….