Israel's Hypocrisy

national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Tuesday August 24, 2010 14:28 by Declan Culle - None

Israel's Hypocrisy

Can someone please tell me if the Ireland has become the new Pro - Israel proxy.
The reason I asked is there seem to be endless letters published in various papers that support
Israel's right to do this, that, and the other, while not coming under any criticism for its actions.
People in this country need to remember that Israel has played the 'hard done by' card since its creation in 1948.

Israel's Hypocrisy

Can someone please tell me if the Ireland has become the new Pro - Israel proxy.
The reason I asked is there seem to be endless letters published in various papers that support Israel's right to do this, that, and the other, while not coming under any criticism for its actions.
People in this country need to remember that Israel has played the 'hard done by' card since its creation in 1948.
Just ask the American Government how innocent Israel are considering the they attacked the USS Liberty in order to blame the attack on Egypt during the Six Day War in 1967.
People also need to remember Rachel Corrie who was killed by an Israeli Bulldozer while trying to prevent the destruction of a doctor's house in the Gaza Strip, and the fate of the Irish ship named in her memory that was seized in international waters by Israeli armed forces. A similar action days earlier left ten unarmed Turkish activist dead.
Or maybe people should remember the Irish passports used in the assassination of the Hamas leader in Dubai.

And finally, just to bring things a little closer to home, don't forget the members of the Israeli security services that were allowed to carry automatic weapons at the Shamrock Rovers vs Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv game in Tallaght in July, which the Irish Government probably had not choice but to agree to.
Israel is no shrinking voilet, it is more like a torn in the side of sovern nations. It is a nation that thinks it can trample over the rights of other people, and then in the same breath cry foul when any person or nation rise's to challenge them.
People in Ireland need to see Israel for the nation it really is, a nation that controls American Foreign Policy via its massive lobby within the US Congress and Senate, and because of that control we will never see a lasting peace in the Middle East, but we will probably see another illegal war. Mostly likely in Iran. All in the name of protecting Israel,
a nation that needs no protection.

Thomas Cullen
Dublin 7