Sunday, October 3, 2010
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BANKRUPTCY OF WESTERN MORALITY
By Paul Craig Roberts Yes, I know. Many readers will rush to tell me: the West had never moral. But things have gotten worse.
Hoping to be allowed to present my arguments, I would remind you that the United States dropped nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities, that Britain and the U.S. Tokyo-based burned incendiary bombs, that Britain and the U.S. bombed Dresden and a number of other German cities by the same method, using more destructive force, according to some historians, against the German civilian population against the Nazi armies, that the president Grant and criminals of our Civil War, Generals Sherman and Sheridan, committed genocide against the Plains Indians, the United States today that Israel can carry out their genocidal policies against the Palestinians, an Israeli official has compared the homonymous policies nineteenth century Americans against Native Americans, that in the XXI century, U.S. has invaded Iraq and Afghanistan with trivial pretexts, killing countless civilians, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave the British army to their American masters, like other NATO countries, all of whom are committing crimes established war in Nuremberg in lands that have no national interests but by the U.S. receive a stipend. I do not pretend that these few examples are exhaustive. I know the list is much longer. However, despite the long list of horrors, moral degradation is reaching new lows. United States now routinely torture prisoners, despite the strict illegality of these acts under both the laws of the country as international law, and a recent survey shows that the percentage of Americans who approve of torture is increasing; still slightly below the majority. And now we have what looks like a new experience exciting: U.S. soldiers used the cover of war to kill civilians. U.S. troops recently were arrested for the murder of Afghan civilians for fun and make a display of trophies such as fingers and heads. This revelation came shortly after the soldier Bradley Manning, allegedly leaked a video of the U.S. Army showing soldiers of this country from helicopters and their drivers to thousands of miles away having fun in killing members of the press and Afghan civilians. Manning bears the curse of a moral consciousness that both his government and his army lost, and was arrested by obeying the law and inform the American people to commit a war crime.
Rep. Rogers said that U.S. wars are being undermined by "a culture of disclosure" and could only put an end to this "serious and growing problem" by implementing Manning. If Rogers is really to Michigan, then Michigan is a state we could do without.
The U.S. government, a source of imperial arrogance, considers that no act committed by vile words, which may constitute a war crime. One million Iraqis dead, a country in ruins and displaced four million are justified because the "threat" is the U.S. superpower had to protect non-existent weapons of mass destruction that the government itself knew for sure they were not in Iraq, and not even have been a threat if they were there. When other countries try to enforce international law dictated that the Americans themselves in order to execute the German defeat in World War II, the U.S. government is operated and blocks the attempt. A year ago, on 8 October, the English Senate, in obedience to its U.S. master, limited in Spain's universal jurisdiction law in order to sabotage a legitimate accusation of war crimes against George W. Bush, Barack H. Obama, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. West including Israel and their stories horror and lasting 60 long years. On the other hand, if you mention any of these stories are going to use the label of anti-Semitic. I only mention this to demonstrate that I am neither anti-nor anti-British or anti-NATO, but I'm just against war crimes. Was the distinguished Judge Richard Goldstone, a Jew and Zionist, who prepared the UN report stating that Israel committed war crimes when it attacked civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza. For his efforts, calling Israel the Zionist Goldstone as "a Jew who despises himself," and the U.S. Congress, on the instructions of the Israeli lobby, voted Please ignore the Goldstone report submitted to the UN.
If the offense is limited to the war and the theft of land could perhaps say that this is a case of misuse of a patriotic traditional morality which otherwise remains in force.
Unfortunately, the collapse of morality is too widespread. Some sports teams are now maintaining an attitude of winning at all costs, including deliberate intentions to harm the star players from rival teams. To avoid all these controversies, we will see the case of Formula One races in which speeds of 300 kilometers per hour are common. Before 1988, 22 years ago, the deaths were due to driver error, mechanical failure or poor design of the car circuits, all of which involved security risks. But in 1988 everything changed. An elite pilot, Ayrton Senna, pushed to another, Alain Prost, against a wall while filming at 190 kilometers per hour. According to AutoWeek (8/30/2010), never seen anything like it. "Officials punished no action that day Senna in Portugal, which began a significant change in careers." What the great Stirling Moss described as "dirty driving" became the norm.
moral climate in Western prevailing stamp another good pilot against a wall at 300 miles per hour is only part of the victory. Michael Schumacher, born in January 1969, it has been seven times world champion, a record unmatched. On August 1 at the Grand Prix of Hungary, AutoWeek reports that Schumacher tried to push his former Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello against the wall at a speed 300 miles per hour. Faced with this assassination attempt, Schumacher said: "This is Formula One Everybody knows that I do not make gifts." Nor does the U.S. government, nor those of other states or regions, nor the UK government nor the European Union.
Police deformation of many Americans, in their ignorant existence of naive believers in the rule of law, believes he is on his side, has acquired new dimensions with the militarization of the security forces to combat "terrorists" and " domestic extremists. "
The police have acted with impunity since the Conservatives were able to neutralize the municipal board of police control. Children as young as six years have been handcuffed and detained for offenses brought school that may or may not have happened. Mothers have also arrested driving a car full of children. "Http://www.youtube.com/"
Anyone on the network see videos of police brutality in the U.S. will have access to tens of thousands of examples, then introduced laws that make the footage of police brutality is a felony.
In one of the most recent police abuses, thousands occur each day, a man of 84 years ended with a broken neck because he opposed the crane to take your car at night. The bully uniformed police threw the old man against a wall and broke his neck. The Orlando Police Department, State of Florida, says the old man was a threat for the well-armed bully, much younger than him, because he had shown a tight fist. Americans will be the first to go straight to hell thinking they are the salt of the earth. Americans even have devised for themselves a title that rivals that of the Israelis: the designation of "God's chosen people", Americans call themselves "indispensable."
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zapping through TV channels I stumbled upon an interview with the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi in a U.S. network (Fox : can you believe it?).
| | " My grandfather told us to love our enemies, even as we struggled against them " he said. " "(quote from memory). He fought courageously against the British, but loved the British |
My immediate reaction was: nonsense, typical of well-meaning pious wish! But then I suddenly remembered that in my youth I myself had felt exactly the same when the age of 15 I joined the Irgun. I liked the English (and called the British), the English language and culture, but was willing to risk my life to drive the English in our country. When I said that the committee recruitment Irgun as he sat under a bright light I lit the eyes, I stopped short of votes.
At first glance the answer is "yes." The so-called "realists" and "pragmatic" say that peace is a matter of political interests, that should not be mixed with feelings (those "realists" are people who can not imagine another reality, and those "pragmatic" are people who can to think long term).
As is well known, peace is made with enemies. One makes peace with the order to stop a war. War is the realm of hate, dehumanize the enemy. In every war the enemy is presented as sub-human, evil and cruel in nature. supposed to peace with ending the war, but not promised change in attitude towards the enemy yesterday. We leave to kill him, but that does not mean that we start to love it. When we reached the conclusion that is in our interest to stop the war instead of continuing with it, that does not necessarily mean that our attitude towards the enemy has changed. Here an intrinsic paradox: the idea of \u200b\u200bpeace comes as war is waged. It follows that the peace plan's usually those who are still at war, those still in the grip of a war mentality, which can distort your thinking.
The result can be a monster, like the infamous Treaty of Versailles that ended World War. He trampled on the treaty defeated Germany, robbed and, worst of all, humbled. Many historians believe that the treaty had much of the blame for the outbreak of World War II, which was even more devastating (child I grew up in Germany under the dark shadow of the Treaty of Versailles, so I know what I'm talking about.)
Nazi Germany, but I've always admired his genius as a leader of the liberation of India.
be realized that the main task of a leader of the mold release is the mentality of people who want to release. When hundreds of millions of Indians faced a few tens of thousands of Britons the main problem was not to defeat the British, but Indians get their own liberation and a wish to live in freedom and harmony. Who aspire to make peace without hate, no revenge, with an open heart, willing to reconcile with the enemy of yesterday. This week an expert in election analysis appeared in an Israeli television. Professor Tamar Harman did not analyze the results of one or two elections but all the elections held in recent decades.
Professor Harman confirmed statistically what everyone percbimos in our everyday lives in Israel there is a continuous movement in the long term, [which is displacing the public] from the concepts of right to the concepts of left. The two-state solution is now accepted by a large majority. The vast majority also agree that the border must be based on the Green Line With exchanges of territory that will leave Israel within the large settlement blocs. The public accepts that the rest of the settlements must be evacuated. Even accepting that the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem part of the future Palestinian state. The expert's conclusion: it is a continuous, dynamic. Public opinion [Israel] is moving in that direction.
remember those distant days of the 1950 when I first proposed this solution [of the two States.] In Israel and the world would not have a hundred people in favor of this idea (the UN resolution 1947, which proposed exactly the same, had been erased from public consciousness by the war, after which Palestine was divided between Israel, Jordan and Egypt.) On a date as late as 1970 I was wandering the halls of power in Washington DC, White House
the State Department, trying to find a single statesman important to support the idea of \u200b\u200bthe two is. The Israeli public almost unanimously opposed to it, like the PLO , who even published a book entitled Uri Avnery and Neo-Zionism .
When we talk today of "two states for two peoples" is almost always linked that concept to the idea of \u200b\u200b"separation." As Ehud Barak said his incomparable style: " We will be here and they will be there ." The phrase evokes the image of Israel as "a villa in the middle of the jungle." We are surrounded by wild beasts ready to devour us, and we in the house must raise an iron wall to protect us.
This is how it is being sold to the masses the idea of \u200b\u200btwo states. Is gaining popularity because it promises a final and total separation: perdámoslos of view, they have their state, for the love of God, and leave us alone. The "two-state solution" will be held live in the "Nation-State of the Jewish people" to be a part of the West, and "they" will live in a state that will be part of the Arab world. Among us will stand a high wall that will be part of the separation wall between the two civilizations. " In Palestine (...) Europe will be part of the wall against Asia, we will serve as a vanguard of civilization against barbarism .
I know that many are surprised by the words "love of the land ". Like many other things, that notion has been kidnapped and inherited by the extreme right. We have allowed it. My generation, which toured the country from end to end long before the emergence of the State [of Israel], did not try to Jericho, Hebron and Nablus like foreign territory. We love them. We deeply thrilling. I still love them. For some people, like the late left-wing writer Amos Kenan, this love became almost an obsession.
The settlers, who ceaselessly proclaim their love of country, love him as a rapist loves her victim, violate the country and want to dominate by force. That is visible in the architecture of the strengths that build on top of hills, fortified neighborhoods Swiss tile roofs. They do not love the real country, the villages with their minarets, stone houses with arched windows nested on the slopes and fused with the landscape, the cultivated terraces to the last centimeter, the streams and the groves. Dream of another country and want to build on the ruins of the Beloved. Kenan expressed it succinctly: " The State of Israel is destroying Earth of Israel."
Beyond the romance, which has its own validity, we wanted to reunite the torn country the only way possible: through the combination of the two people who love him. Despite all their similarities, these two national entities are different in culture, religion, traditions, language, writing, lifestyle, social structure and economic development. Our life experience, and expertise from around the world in this generation more than any other, has shown that people can not live well in one country (Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Cyprus, and perhaps Belgium, Canada , Iraq). Therefore, the need to live in two states, side by side (with the possibility of a future federation).
When we arrived at this conclusion after the war ended in 1948, conceived the two-state solution rather than a plan for separation but, rather, as a plan for the unit. For decades we've talked about two states with an open border between them, with a common economy with free movement of persons and goods.
These were the central themes in all plans for "two-state solution." Then came the so-called "realists" and seized the body without the soul, reducing the plan alive a lot of dry bones. Similarly, left many were willing to approve the separation program in the belief that this pseudo-pragmatic approach would be easier to sell to the masses. But the moment of truth this approach failed. The "peace talks collapsed.
propose returning to the wisdom of Gandhi. It is impossible to mobilize the masses without a vision. Peace is not merely the absence of hostilities, and the product of a maze of fences and walls. Nor is it a utopia like "the wolf living with the lamb." This is a true state of reconciliation and cooperation between peoples and human beings who respect each other, they are willing to meet each other's interests to trade with each other, build relationships and, who knows, here and there, even to like the each other.
In a nutshell: two states, a common future. http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1285413817/
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