Liverpool opinions
Danse macabre
By
John Williams
The hate filled voices of the so called left are creating a myth that is not only untrue but dangerous to us all. I am referring to the notion that Israel is an 'illegitimate state'. Those who support this lie implictly advocate the elimination of Israel as a nation state; in short, they desire a genocide.
I want to make my self perfectly clear on one thing; people can call themselves anti-Zionists but they are Jew haters plain and simple, using the rag of caring for Palestinians as a cover for the hatred of Jews in general and Israelis in particular. I can say this with confidence because their bleeding hearts couldn't spare a drop for the Palestinians who were executed like dogs, by Hamas, in the streets of Gaza .
The once allegedly impartial BBC refer to Hamas as 'radicals', which puts these savage medievalist murderers in the same exalted company as Thomas Paine, Bertrand Russell or William Wilberforce.
The principles of the Hamas are stated in their Covenant or Charter
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
Their 'radicalism' is no more that old Islamic hatreds togged out in the rhetoric of 'freedom' fighters,
Leaving aside the sick fantasies of those 'leftists' whose political lineage, before they succumbed to the succubus of racism, included many Jews, let us examine the notion of Israel's legitimacy or otherwise.
The denial of Israel's legitimacy, whose status as a nation state was conferred by a majority vote the UN for the partition of Palestine, is tenuously woven around ideas of artificiality, armed conflict and the displacement of refugees.
Essentially what they are insinuating is that Israel has no right to exist because it was created in 1948 on land that allegedly belonged to others.
The measure of their duplicity and Jew hatred can be demonstrated by the fact that they totally avoid applying the same accusations to Pakistan which was created a year earlier and which unleashed a catastrophe. The simple fact is that the wars of the middle East have resulted in regrettable but relatively few deaths compared to the endless blood letting that has characterised Islamic Pakistan's existence.
These are the words of Ishtiaq Ahmed Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Stockholm University
"The Partition of British India in 1947, which created the two independent states of India and Pakistan, was followed by one of the cruellest and bloodiest migrations and ethnic cleansings in history. The religious fury and violence that it unleashed caused the deaths of some 2 million Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. An estimated 12 to 15 million people were forcibly transferred between the two countries. At least 75,000 women were raped.[1] The trauma incurred in the process has been profound. Consequently relations between the two states, between them and some of their people, and between some of their groups have not normalised even after more than half a century; on the contrary they have consistently worsened with each passing year.".
Contrast this with the recent statement of an Israeli commentator, Ben Dror Yemeni;
"...about 60,000 Arabs have died in the Arab-Israel conflict since 1948 (including the War of 1948 itself), most killed in wars started by the Arabs themselves, and only a few thousand of those killed have been Palestinians! Now, it goes without saying that every one of those killed is a tragedy, but the numbers killed in this conflict are dwarfed to insignificance by the terrible, horrendous atrocities that have been committed elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim world at the very same time. All this time, millions of Muslims and Arabs have been dying at the hands of Muslim and Arabs."
Ben Dror Yemeni calls it a cover up and says that the great deception of the libel against Israel is the great tragedy of the Arabs and the Muslims - for it allows this horrific carnage to continue undisturbed".
Here are some undeniable facts about the deaths that have been caused by the creation of Pakistan.
On February 22, 1971 the generals in West Pakistan took a decision to crush the Awami League and its supporters. It was recognized from the first that a campaign of genocide would be necessary to eradicate the threat: "Kill three million of them," said President Yahya Khan at the February conference, "and the rest will eat out of our hands." (Robert Payne, Massacre [1972], p. 50.) On March 25 the genocide was launched. The university in Dacca was attacked and students exterminated in their hundreds. Death squads roamed the streets of Dacca, killing some 7,000 people in a single night. It was only the beginning. "Within a week, half the population of Dacca had fled, and at least 30,000 people had been killed. Chittagong, too, had lost half its population. All over East Pakistan people were taking flight, and it was estimated that in April some thirty million people [!] were wandering helplessly across East Pakistan to escape the grasp of the military." (Payne, Massacre, p. 48.) Ten million refugees fled to India, overwhelming that country's resources and spurring the eventual Indian military intervention. (The population of Bangladesh/East Pakistan at the outbreak of the genocide was about 75 million.)
So, the state of conflict that we call Pakistan has been responsible for the death of millions of its own and other people's citizens; and its fostering of Islamic fanatics coupled with the real prospect of those fanatics obtaining the means to make nuclear war leave us all in mortal danger; but not a word of criticism from the wilfully deluded left and their allies about the legitimacy of Pakistan. They not only refuse to criticise the Islamic state, many of them actually applaud the murder of westerners, soldiers or civilians.
If that is not a dangerous psychiatric condition I don't know what is.
Since 1947 many new countries have been created and their creation led to countless deaths.
French indo China was divided to create Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. I don't have to remind you of the slaughter that took place in these countries in the name of independence. The Republic of the Congo was born in blood and is still haemorrhaging at a dreadful rate. Nigeria's leaders slaughtered its Ibo population....
The carnage that ensued in these and many others places still continues is not perceived by the lunatics on the left as in any way a stain on the legitimacy of these states.
In matters not concerning Israel they are rather pragmatic and accept that, like the birth of human beings, the births of nations are often bloody.
This determination on their part to walk eyeless everywhere, except in Gaza, is proof of their Jew hating mentality
How anybody can question or even deny the legitimacy of Israel while studiously ignoring the disaster that is Pakistan and still lay claim to intellectual integrity is a mystery to me
It will be seen that throughout history the massive population displacements caused by wars of independence did not always result in permanent festering slums because refugees, from Pharoaic times onwards, have abandoned false pride and accepted their defeats before assimilating elswwhere; except for the Palestinians who, in spite of defeat after defeat on the their behalf, continue to be a running sore in the body politic of the near East, a situation that pleases their pusillanimous benefactors, the rich Islamic leaders whose only use for Palestinian suffering is to employ their images as recruiting posters for their dreams of waging a genocidal war against Israel...
July 25th 2007