Beneath Contempt

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  SA September 22, 2019 at 07:17

  Hatuey
  This article is nine years old. Little has been done since about Israel’s illegal activities against the human rights of the Palestinians since. It is a case that the so called upholders of law internationally feel that this is not a universal law but that some countries can be exempt from them because they are an ethnically based democracy, itself a glaring contradiction.

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    Hatuey September 22, 2019 at 11:17

    I know, SA. Nothing is ever done. And my lengthy comment which I apologise for, given that most people who come here know about this stuff, is another waste of time and effort that will result in nothing. I’m under no illusions.

    When I see people on here defending Israel, though, and excusing their genocidal attacks on innocent people on the basis of population growth, we have no option but to go through the routine of reminding them that we know the truth.

    Everybody with a conscience should be boycotting Israeli produce wherever they can and drawing attention to their crimes against humanity. Stealing the organs of kids that you murder is as sinister as you get in this world.

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  michael norton September 22, 2019 at 15:08

  It is not that likely that Iran is directly involved.

  Iran does not want all out war, especially if they have not done this thing.
  However, Iran has offered all out war, including on the allies of America,
  one of the states that is an allie of America, is of course Israel.
  At the moment Israel does not have a functioning government.
  So no real war until the new administration in Israel is installed and up and running, then only if they give all out war the thumbs up, which they will not.

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        Hatuey September 22, 2019 at 20:40

        Btw, Vietnam and Iraq don’t compare. I don’t expect the US would be in any hurry to send in troops on the ground in Iran. A win in the terms I’m using would mean hammering Iran back to the year dot.

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  Goose September 22, 2019 at 16:36

  The most depressing thing living in the west, is our so-called free press and their willingness to believe without question everything coming out of Washington and Riyadh.

  Maybe Jamal Khashoggi launched the missiles from the Turkish Saudi embassy car park?

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  Hatuey September 22, 2019 at 16:50

  SA, I listened to the interview carefully. You can be sure that the drones were of Iranian origin, nobody is disputing that.

  The US and U.K. want to violate the normal rules of proxy war and argue that by supplying the Houthis with these drone, Iran is basically responsible.

  If we were to take them seriously, the US and U.K. as the world’s top two arms exporters would be straightforwardly responsible for more violence and destruction than the rest of the world put together.

  But that would be a break from the normal rules of the proxy war game that the U.K. and US invented. Nobody in England or America who wanted to be taken seriously in the field of international relations would support that because proxy war is so central to everything when it comes to arms sales and foreign intervention.

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    Goose September 22, 2019 at 18:14

    By that standard a certain Mr Kalashnikov would be responsible for every war on the planet.

    What is it Trump and the NRA are fond of telling us every time there’s a mass shooting : weapons don’t kill anyone, people do.

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    Michael September 22, 2019 at 18:20

    Russia and China could change the nature of warfare forever. If drawn into a war by western gangsters they could use their modern missile systems to personally target western leaders. They must know several addresses these savages live and frequent. Take war to their own front door and ensure some of them are amongst the first to die in this one. Very soon they’d realise this is personal, where they’re at extreme risk of being wiped out in a missile strike. After which the survivors will no longer be so keen to start war.