The real threat we face is Blair
By any measure of international law, Blair is a prima
facie war criminal
by John Pilger
August 16, 2006
The New Statesman.
If the alleged plot to attack airliners flying from
London is true -
remember the lies that led to the invasion of Iraq,
and to the raid on a
"terrorist cell" in east London - then one person
ultimately is to
blame, as he was on 7 July last year. They were
Blair's bombs then; who
doesn't believe that 52 Londoners would be alive today
had the Prime
Minister refused to join Bush in his piratical attack
on Iraq? A
parliamentary committee has said as much, as have MI5,
the Foreign
Office, Chatham House and the polls.
A senior Metropolitan Police officer, Paul Stephenson,
claims the
Heathrow plot "was intended to be mass murder on an
unimaginable scale".
The most reliable independent surveys put civilian
deaths in Iraq, as a
result of the invasion by Bush and Blair, above
100,000. The difference
between the Heathrow scare and Iraq is that mass
murder on an
unimaginable scale has actually happened in Iraq.
By any measure of international law, from Nuremberg to
the Geneva
accords, Blair is a major prima facie war criminal.
The charges against
him grow. The latest is his collusion with the Israeli
state in its
deliberate, criminal attacks on civilians. While
Lebanese children were
being buried beneath Israeli bombs, he refused to
condemn their killers
or even to call on them to desist. That a ceasefire
was negotiated owed
nothing to him, except its disgraceful delay.
Not only is it clear that Blair knew about Israel's
plans but he alluded
approvingly to the ultimate goal: an attack on Iran.
Read his neurotic
speech in Los Angeles, in which he described an "arc
of extremism",
stretching from Hezbollah to Iran. He gave not a hint
of the arc of
injustice and lawlessness of Israel's occupation of
Palestine and its
devastation of Lebanon. Neither did he attempt to
counter the bigotry
now directed at all Arabs by the west and by the
racist regime in Tel
Aviv. His references to "values" are code for a
crusade against Islam.
Blair's extremism, like Bush's, is rooted in the
righteous violence of
rampant Messianic power. It is completely at odds with
modern, multi
cultural, secular Britain. He shames this society. Not
so much
distrusted these days as reviled, he endangers and
betrays us in his
vassal's affair with the religious fanatic in
Washington and the
Biblo-ethnic cleansers in Israel. Unlike him, the
Israelis at least are
honest. "We must use terror, assassination,
intimidation, land
confiscation and the cutting of all social services to
rid the Galilee
of its Arab population," said Israel's founding prime
minister, David
Ben-Gurion. Half a century later, Ariel Sharon said,
"It is the duty of
Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion . . .
that there can be no
Zionism, colonisation or Jewish state without the
eviction of the Arabs
and the expropriation of their lands." The current
prime minister, Ehud
Olmert, told the US Congress: "I believe in our
people's eternal and
historic right to this entire land [his emphasis]."
Blair has backed this barbarism enthusiastically. In
2001, the Israeli
press disclosed that he had secretly given the "green
light" to Sharon's
bloody invasion of the West Bank, whose advance plans
he was shown.
Palestine, Iraq, Leba non - is it any wonder the
attacks of 7 July and
this month's Heathrow scare happened? The CIA calls
this "blowback". On
12 August, the Guardian published an editorial ("The
challenge for us
all"), which waffled about how "a significant number
of young people
have been alienated from the [Muslim] culture", but
spent not a word on
how Blair's Middle East disaster was the source of
their alienation. A
polite pretence is always preferred in describing
British policy,
elevating "misguided" and "inappropriate" and
suppressing criminal
behaviour.
Go into Muslim areas and you will be struck by a fear
reminiscent of the
anti-Semitic nightmare of the Jews in the 1930s, and
by an anger
generated almost entirely by "a perceived double
standard in the foreign
policy of western governments", as the Home Office
admits. This is felt
deeply by many young Asians who, far from being
"alienated from their
culture", believe they are defending it. How much
longer are we all
prepared to put up with the threat to our security
coming from Downing
Street? Or do we wait for the "unimaginable"?
[http://www.johnpilger.com]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=PIL200
60816&articleId=2985
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