Getting away with murder
Aijaz Zaka Syed / Al-Ahram
25-Feb-2010 (3 comments)

Check this out. Here's a story of two countries from the Middle East. One is an ancient civilisation with a rich history that goes back 5,000 years. It's a functioning democracy with free elections held at regular intervals. It's a huge country of 70 million people. It has remained within its borders and hasn't attacked any country in the last 100 years. It is pursuing a nuclear power programme, which it insists is for peaceful purposes.

The second is a country that also claims to be a democracy. In this democracy you get citizenship and voting rights not on the basis of your origins, even if you were born in this land, but on your ancestry. This country was founded on land stolen and forcibly taken from its original inhabitants. It has fought at least three wars and is locked in permanent conflict with its neighbours on all sides. It has a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons and other state-of-the-art killing machines. It pursues assassination as a state policy and regularly sends death squads around the world to take out people it doesn't like.

Which do you think is a threat to world peace? The first country that has no history of aggression, or the second, that has killed tens of thousands of innocent people in wars of aggression against neighbours and in coldblooded executions?

No prizes for guessing that the two countries in question are Iran and Israel. And if anyone had any doubts about the evil and criminal nature of the state of Israel, they shou... >>>

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