On
“Mowing the Palestinian Grass”
That’s
the phrase that is used by Israel to describe their periodic forays into Gaza
to terrify the Palestinian who live there. The Israelis call their recent
shootings of unarmed prisoners in the large outdoor prison of deprivation they
have created for the Palestinians: “Mowing the Grass”. The Israelis feel quite
free to use live ammunition on unarmed Palestinian protesters who want their
land and homes returned.
However, the Israelis know they are “the
chosen” both politically and by religious decree and that they don’t have to
return anything. They will gladly starve out and/or kill every last Palestinian
protester, including children in Gaza, before they will willingly give back the
right of the Palestinians to return to their land, or interfere with their
continuing stealing of even more Palestinian land. And the Israelis also
know they can use live ammunition on unarmed protesters without worry of global
condemnation. They have Donald Trump solidly behind them on the one hand, armed
with the most extensive, viscous military in the entire world, and the deep
pockets of the Jewish Lobby to protect them from any censure by the American
Congress on the other. After all, the
Jewish Lobby has bought and paid for the vast majority of the US federal
politicians, both Democrats and Republicans.
The US in
turn, twists the arms of the UN, so the outright murder of unarmed Palestinians
is ignored by the European politicians and the Western press, or else when
mentioned, the protesters are defined as “terrorists”. Citizens of the
western world should take note. What is
done in Gaza could come home. When unarmed protesters of any kind are shot and
killed in the so called civilized world with scant or no notice from other
supposed civilized nations, then
these states themselves by their lack of
care, signify their own murderous impulses toward their own political
protesters who are perceived as trying to disturb the accepted order of
things. From this heavy blanket of
silence from the governments of the world, including Canada, of the deliberate
killing of unarmed protesting Palestinians, then we can deduce that no visibly
protesting citizen anywhere in our western world is safe from our own
governments.
On war with Russia
The hatred being vented toward Russia by the Western world may be some
kind of a temporary aberration, but I don’t think so. This non-stop assault on Russia is a horrendously
dangerous thing. The accusations of
wrong-doing by Russia without including Western countries own role in all of it
is never-ending. As far as Russia trying
to kill a double agent on British soil after Russia had already released him
years before after he served time for treason, I don’t believe it. On the eve of the World cup games? Why would
they do that?
I could be wrong but it certainly sounds
as though some sort of a pre-emptive strike on Russia by US-led NATO is being
seriously discussed by the US generals. However, the problem for this scenario is
that Russia (as I understand it) now has a nuclear capability superior to the
US. NATO (of which Canada is a part)
can’t really try to destroy Russia without grave risk of destroying our own
countries and populations.
I also think this flood of
accusations coming from the West against Russia is aimed equally, or even
primarily, at China. Why? The US dollar
has been the predominant settlement currency for oil future contracts. China is the world’s biggest oil consumer and
has just launched their own yuan-back crude oil futures in Shanghai. This means
they don’t have to use US dollars anymore in their oil transactions. They will use their own currency, backed by
gold, instead of US dollars, backed by much of nothing. Which, of course, weakens the US dollar
further and makes the US furious.
The US war hawks will rattle swords
and cheer on Theresa May but unless the new warriors in Trump’s cabinet are
willing to try to wreck the entire world along with their own lives, there
isn’t a dammed thing they can do about it. Except, of course, sling accusations
non-stop both at Russia and China while titillating the public with the frolics
of Donald Trump and Stormy, the porn star.
