The United States Entangled in Moral Crisis

The world was shocked by the new crime Israel committed against civilians outside this country’s jurisdiction. Israel is an entity driven by a racist ideology with anti-humanitarian dimensions, namely Zionism. The United Nations was right in its adoption of a recommendation, back in the 1970s, to the effect that Zionism is a form of racism. Israel has grown accustomed to killing civilians. But in the past, the Israeli crimes did not reach the global public, except through the written press or via some news bulletins when it was feasible to film the facts on the ground.

However, a real shift took place with what happened in Sabra and Shatila in Beirut, where televised media were able, for the first time, to transmit the horror of what transpired there. The world got to see the atrocity perpetrated by Israel and its star at the time, Ariel Sharon, even as some Lebanese citizens allied with the Zionist enemy were also involved in the crime. Sabra and Shatila was a grave crime also. There is no doubt that the failure to take action against the perpetrators and the ones implicated in the crime, as well as the avoidance of international bodies to act — particularly the Security Council — emboldened the Israeli officials to continue committing further brutal attacks against civilians.

We know that following the events of Sabra and Shatila, cases were brought against Sharon and his accomplices before the Belgian criminal justice. This justice system almost accomplished a historic mission, but the case was brought at a time when the Zionist influence in Europe — just like in the United States — was at its strongest. The so-called Zionist lobby was successful based on the influential “bridge” between New York and Belgium, stopping the case after it reached the Indictment Chamber of the Court of Appeals in Brussels. Furthermore, the Zionist influence was able to get the Belgian legislature to change the so-called universal competence law, considered to be ideal, by undoing an important aspect of it — that of making Sharon, and war criminals in general, perpetrators of crimes against humanity — with Sharon outside the scope of application of this law.

What had happened in Belgium was a victory, albeit limited, for the Zionist criminality. There is no doubt that the Israeli gains from subjugating the Belgian government and parliaments only reinforced the sense of superiority for Israel, as well as proved what had been achieved in Belgium: that all of Europe is under the influence of Zionism. This is a consistent stance that is confirmed by the positions of current European governments toward Israel, as they are turning a blind eye to all the violations and crimes committed by Israel, even if against unarmed civilians. Leaders such as Mrs. Merkel, the German Chancellor, or Mr. Sarkozy, the French president and other heads of state and governments in Europe, never miss an opportunity to express — as do the leaders of the U.S. — their loyalty to Israel using their concern for its security as a reason, as if the only human security being threatened or in need of protection is the security of Israel. Meanwhile, Israel is the one threatening human security in an entire region of the world, and it is the only one that persists in its breach of international law while trampling on human rights.

The bowing of governments, European parliaments and the siding of successive American administrations with Israel — even when it committed the most grievous and horrific crimes — encourages Israel to persist in its brutal, uncivilized and inhumane behavior. If Israel was not confident that governments of Western countries would cover up for them, that mechanisms of international law will be subverted for their sake, that the Security Council exists for its protection and that the U.S. military power would provide support when needed, they would not have gone that far in their criminal behavior. What happened to the Freedom Flotilla will remain a shameful stain among many on the forehead of the Zionist entity, which will remain an outcast not only in the Arab region and the Islamic world, but also in many other parts of the world. It is believed that Israel draws its strength from its strategic thinking and this, in my opinion, is correct. But the Zionist arrogance is leading Israeli strategy toward bankruptcy, because they do not know how to deal with the environment in which they were planted.

What is more serious for the Israelis is how much they invested in looking to the future, when they were wrong without even knowing it. Perhaps the most notable question the Israelis must ask themselves is: What future is there for an entity that continuously carries out terrorism, planting death and destruction, only to be known for their continued criminal acts? Moreover, the persistence of Israel in its endless crimes makes the entire world, except for its allies, convinced that Israel subverts international law and that it is a source of real danger to global peace and security. This has been already confirmed by a referendum that was carried out in European societies.

As for the democracy that is said to characterize the state of Israel, it happens to be a special kind of democracy. The strange thing is, except for the Arab candidates for the Knesset, the ones implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity happen to be the ones most likely to win the Israeli legislative elections that give rise to governments, given the fact that the Israeli political system is of the parliamentary type. To have someone as a head of successive Israeli governments who was not implicated in committing war crimes and crimes against humanity has yet to happen. So, what democracy are they talking about?

Israel is living outside the standards of our times, considered to be the age of international law that is founded on the concepts of freedom, human rights, peace and the people’s rights to self-determination — the end of colonialism and occupation. What it committed against the Freedom Flotilla is a chapter in a series of chapters in that bloodthirsty entity. (Let us remember what happened in Jenin and what happened and is still happening in Gaza.) There is no doubt that the crime Israel committed against humanity, this time on the high seas in a region intended by international law to be a symbol of liberation and freedom, will have detrimental consequences, no matter how much Western countries supported and protected Israel. These countries are embroiled by Israel in an unprecedented moral crisis and are made one way or another an accomplice in Israel’s crimes denounced by societies — thus making everyone who seeks to justify or provide a cover-up into an enemy not only of the law, but also of civilization, values and human rights.