[Peace-discuss] John Pilger on Israel

[Morton K. Brussel]

There is more protest in the UK against the policies of Israel than  
here. Will a call for a boycott of Israel be effective? John Pilger  
sees some reason to hope. --mkb

An extract from http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm? 
SectionID=107&ItemID=13676

…The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is as much America's crusade as  
Israel's. On 16 August, the Bush administration announced an  
unprecedented $30bn military "aid package" for Israel, the world's  
fourth biggest military power, an air power greater than Britain, a  
nuclear power greater than France. No other country on earth enjoys  
such immunity, allowing it to act without sanction, as Israel. No  
other country has such a record of lawlessness: not one of the  
world's tyrannies comes close. International treaties, such as the  
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, ratified by Iran, are ignored by  
Israel. There is nothing like it in UN history.

But something is changing. Perhaps last summer's panoramic horror  
beamed from Lebanon on to the world's TV screens provided the  
catalyst. Or perhaps cynicism of Bush and Blair and the incessant use  
of the inanity, "terror", together with the day-by-day dissemination  
of a fabricated insecurity in all our lives, has finally brought the  
attention of the international community outside the rogue states,  
Britain and the US, back to one of its principal sources, Israel.…


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