Excessive force.
By Albion
I read that roughly 550 Palestinians so far have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza conflict. Our very own Kommissar Herr Brown, ‘Nick’ Sarkozy and other world leaders have said the Israelis had a right to defend themselves from the continual rocket attacks but questioned the use of excessive force. Let’s look at that figure of 550 and try and determine what excessive force is.
Whether force is excessive depends which side of the conflict you are on. Let me explain. With the UN appearing to be the referee in many of these conflicts, it is they who decide, with pressure from the first world nations whether a regional conflict should be allowed to continue.
For example whether Kosovo should be annexed from Serbia and ceded to Albanian Moslems, and whether the American bombing of Serbia was justified or excessive when Serbia had no air defences and again this was a regional conflict, or whether Russia used excessive force when they stopped the attempted genocide in South Ossetia.
Meanwhile Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili sitting in front of an EU flag, a sycophant extraordinaire of the EU and a non-member of the EU accused the Russians of using excessive force in retaking South Ossetia. The BBC, as predictable as ever reported that the Russians invaded Georgia without provocation but weeks later the UN found that Georgia was involved in Genocide and the BBC had to make a hurried apology which was entirely against their apparent charter of unbalanced and biased reporting.
Wars today are supposed to be fought politely. If say a British soldier kicks an Iraqi prisoner his case might be brought before a Human Rights Commission and victim can sue for loss of dignity and hurt feelings. In contrast when blacks fight each other machetes and AK 45’s are the choice of weapons. In some African conflicts, very few I must add, they still eat body parts of their enemy.
One commentator said in all wars a country should use every means at is disposal to beat the enemy, and up until the end of WW2 that’s the way it has always been. If France was lobbing rockets across the channel non-stop, how would Brown react, maybe send in an expeditionary force and ask them to stop it?
“To my left I suddenly see a woman. I can see her to this day and shall never forget it. She carries a bundle in her arms. It is a baby. She runs, she falls, and the child flies in an arc into the fire, a raging firestorm. Suddenly, I saw people again, right in front of me. They scream and gesticulate with their hands, and then - to my utter horror and amazement - I see how one after the other they simply seem to let themselves drop to the ground. They fainted and then burnt to cinders.
Reading this would one say excessive force was used on non combatants, a woman with a child? But no the British government would say excessive force was not used; it was justifiable, they were the victors.
I would like to stress this bestial criminality was carried out on the orders of the ‘British Government’ NOT the British people. The bomber crews were the brave ones, many of them lost their lives carrying out dangerous nightly missions. In a time of war disobeying an order could mean death.
No-one had experienced a firestorm such as this in any war. The oxygen was removed from the air by incendiary bombs so many people were suffocated. They were the lucky ones, they were not burnt alive. The people involved in this horror on a civilian population knew this carnage would happen.
Many of you reading this would not have been alive during WW2. But it was the British government that gave ’Bomber’ Harris the all clear to bomb Dresden. 100,000 people mainly civilians were incinerated in an instant in a firestorm; it was the closest thing to an Atomic explosion. Dresden had no military value whatsoever. The Leica factory and the manufacture of fine China were the enemy here.
The British decided to break the moral of the German people by deliberately targeting the civilian population.
That was primitive savagery taken to the extreme. Harris should have been charged with crimes against humanity and hanged, but he wasn’t. Crimes against humanity is one of the spoils of war, it’s a luxury the victor enjoys.
I regularly watch the BBC Irish commentators reporting from Gaza and there is little exposure concerning the thousands of rockets that Hamas have rained on Israel but plenty on the use of ‘excessive force’ by the Israelis. Interestingly we are again talking about a ‘regional conflict’ but neither the EU nor the UN is game enough to poke their noses in. The EU is posturing like peacocks as though they are a democratically elected government.
Maybe what the BBC would like to report is that there has been a polite response to the rocket firing and strong urges to Hamas by the Israeli government to stop firing rockets at their civilians who have to duck in an air raid shelter every few minutes.
Something like over a million deaths in the Sudan and the Congo, now I would consider that excessive, but where is the UN. Sorry we are discussing a black country, there are always exceptions.
Finally one day history will show that the bombing of Serbia into submission was a murky episode that would frighten many people who think we live in a civilised democratic society. I smell the work of the New World Order that Mr. Brown spoke at great length about in one of his speeches The New world order that is crafting Europe as I write.
