Men and women from all over the Southern West Bank stand in line for
hours each morning on their way to work outside of a Bethlehem checkpoint.
In June and August 1980, the UN Security Council declared Israel's annexation of Jerusalem 'null and void' under international law. In December of 1981, the UN Security Council declared Israel's annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights 'null and void' under international law. On 9 August 1990, the UN Security Council declared Iraq's annexation of Kuwait 'null and void' under international law. For the third declaration - but not for the first two - the West would insist on a strict application of 'international law.' Arabs already knew, of course, that there was one rule of law for the Israelis, a quite different one for non-Israelis.
Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East. Pg 606. (footnote)
Not only is it a 'double standard,' as Fisk describes it here, but it also constitutes intentional ignorance about how the mechanisms of abusive Occupation work. The same pattern endlessly repeats itself without fail in the criminal behavior of the perpetrator: avoid acceptance of responsibility - deny (reverse blame), counterattack and feign victimhood.
Unfortunately, twelve-step programs are inappropriate and ineffectual for healing forty years of humiliation and abuse at the hands of the criminally insane and others who have chosen to become complicit in these heinous acts with their silence, smoke screens and red herrings - traitorous lies, deceptions and criminal insanity across the board.
"As above so below."
Posted by: Napalm | 05 September 2009 at 19:49