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Scottish News direct from Scotland Tuesday, 26th November 2002 Mon 25 Nov 2002 printer friendly email article Blair is potentially a greater danger to our country than Saddam Jimmy Reid GEORGE Bush talks as if terrorists were terrorists for no fathomable reason. As if terrorism exists independent of time and place and without social causation. This would mean that terrorism cannot be understood and therefore no remedial action is feasible except the obliteration of the terrorists. But we have historical proof that if you kill a generation of terrorists a new generation will emerge with the same aspirations and often the same mode of struggle. There is such a thing as cause and effect. Terrorism is an effect. Something causes it. If you can�t find the cause, or can�t be bothered trying to find it, then terrorism will be a constant. There is another problem. The English branded William Wallace a terrorist. To us, he was a freedom fighter. Those who fought for American independence were demonised as terrorists by the British Crown. All citizens of British colonies who fought for independence were branded terrorists. Mahatma Gandhi was vilified for advocating passive resistance to the British Raj and jailed as a terrorist, though he was a pacifist. People denied the right to change society through the ballot box have a moral right to use force as a means of bringing about change. People who have the right to change things through the ballot box have no moral right to seek change through violence. When the gerrymandered electoral system in Northern Ireland denied Catholics and Nationalists a vote of equal value with Protestants and Unionists, then the IRA�s armed struggle for a United Ireland had some moral justification. When gerrymandering was ended and the principle of one person one vote was established, the IRA had no moral right to continue the armed struggle. This is not some abstract principle but a proven means of resolving problems that otherwise drive peoples to violent forms of struggle. The cause of modern-day Islamic terrorism is not to be found in the teachings of Islam or the madness of individuals but in the vicious discrimination against the Arab peoples by the West, led by the United States. It built up Israel as a destabilising dagger in the heart of Arabia because instability allowed it to conspire and seek to control Arabia�s oil through corrupt and feudal dynasties. Israel is bristling with arms. The United States is Israel�s main arms supplier. In 1967, Israel�s military superiority enabled it to occupy and colonise Palestinian land. In 1967, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously for resolution 242 that demanded the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from this land. That was 35 years ago. Any proposal to implement this resolution was vetoed by the Americans. Recently, the UN Security Council passed, again unanimously, a resolution demanding that Iraq comply with the humiliating terms of a UN resolution, or face almost immediate destruction. The contrast is blatant. Muslims and Arabs are aware of this. They know, we know, the world knows, that there are no proven links between Saddam and Osama bin Laden. Iraq presents no military threat to the United States or the United Kingdom or the western world. It�s almost impossible, given the sanctions that have devastated the Iraqi economy and the daily surveillance of Iraqi territory by US and British aircraft, that Saddam has acquired a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons along with the means of delivery. Israel definitely has such a nuclear capacity. Bush and Blair are desperate to go to war. That they will defeat Iraq is not in doubt. Iraq will then be politically administered by the US military and economically by Standard Oil. For every Islamic rebel today there will be 1,000 in six months� time. Don�t expect them to "play the game" and engage American and British weaponry on the battlefield, as Palestinian youngsters do on the West Bank, confronting Israeli tanks with stones. They will use what we call terrorism. I abhor the targeting of civilians in any armed conflict, though why those who rain bombs on defenceless people should be allowed to lecture anyone on terrorism beats me. If there is a war, then Britain, given the complicity of Blair, could become a prime terrorist target. He is thereby potentially a bigger danger to our country than Saddam ever was. Just as his government, in sabotaging a negotiated settlement between firefighters and their employers, will be responsible for the continuation of the strike and any consequential dangers to the people of Britain. This government of former members of the CND and former Scargillites has been transmogrified into a coterie of mindless, right-wing militants, forever lusting for a fight. Any time - anywhere. Opinion: Page 2 Why the FBU's 'fairness' mantra is badly flawed The seeds of doubt can't halt progress Just get me to the church still sane Trouble on the home front puts Tony Blair to the test Pupils' potential deliberately squandered Blair is potentially a greater danger to our country than Saddam Golf course glory down to a tee Stripped for action and ripe for some humiliation Walking a tightrope Catalogue of confused messages in fire dispute Now and Then Figuring Scotland out The big Miss World mistake Scotland's Millstone Holding back the Cruel C That sinking feeling Page 2 of 5 PHOTO GALLERY Browse our award-winning photos and buy online. 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