http://www.newstatesman.com/200608210022
Despatches: The real threat we face
is Blair
Columnists
John Pilger
Monday 21st August 2006
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]
This article first appeared in the New
Statesman.
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