Aren’t We Wasting Time With UN & Five Big Powers ?
By Kusal Perera -July 21, 2014
Kusal Perara
When I sat to spread my anger from end to end in this short write up, UNSG Ban-ki Moon was on his way to the “region”, meaning to those countries around Gaza. He was to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Doha, Qatar, to “see if the truce could be revived” as reports said. Qatar Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani is said to play conduit between Hamas, the armed Palestinian group dominating Palestinian politics and the International community. Hamas has said an emphatic ‘no’ to the conditions proposed by Egypt, for a truce. Egypt, now under military rule, is allegedly funded by the US.
Meanwhile a UN statement said that Ban-ki Moon will be in Middle East over the weekend “to express solidarity with Israelis and Palestinians and to help them, in co-ordination with regional and international actors, to end the violence and find a way forward”. Like US President Obama, Ban-ki Moon will also recognise Israelis and Palestinians as equally worthy of his support. He proves, he is equally with the “criminal” and the “victim”. That’s a little more covert than Obama. The first US President of African descent, after a string of 43 White Presidents, Obama has no qualms supporting Israel, the same way as his predecessors. He had told media, that he defends the right of Israel to defend itself against “Hamas” rockets. That his friends and allies back him on that. In passing he says he is concerned about civilian casualties and Israel should avoid civilian casualties. “Obama” is thus a shorter reference for “high end, empty rhetoric”.
As Obama said, all EU power kegs, Briton, France, Germany at least, stand for Israel’s “right to defend itself”, which is Israeli “right to dislodge Gaza residents, turning them into refugees” with a heavy death toll of Palestinian men, women and children. Briton therefore keeps selling arms and weapons to Tel Aviv. With British arms in use, the death toll in these 14 days of brutal Israeli attacks on Gaza, have run a high of 445 plus with UNICEF records last week indicating at least 73 as under 18 years of age and most, were little kids.
