The impunity of Israel and its allies will carry a price
Outrage over Tzipi Livni's arrest warrant would be better directed to the suffering of Gaza and the risks of a new eruption. When evidence of war crimes is produced, you might expect states that claim to defend the rule of law to want those crimes investigated and the perpetrators held to account. Not a bit of it. The decision by a London judge to issue a warrant for the arrest of Israel's former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over evidence of serious breaches of the laws of war in Gaza has sparked official outrage in Britain. The court's behaviour was "insufferable", foreign secretary David Miliband declared. The Times called it "repugnant". Gordon Brown yesterday assured Livni that action would be taken to ensure no such thing ever happens again. AWIP: UK to review war crimes warrants after Tzipi Livni arrest row.
We don't remember British officialdom protesting when the mass murders in Gaza took place. British politicians, including Prime Minister & Poodle Tony Blair kept mum, and let 1,420 Palestinians be killed (446 of them children), 5,320 be injured (1,855 of them children), let 4,000 houses be destroyed and 16,000 houses be damaged without uttering a single word of protest, much less of outrage. -How can we now take their reactions to this British court seriously? Among modern-day hypocrites, aren't these obnoxious Friends of Israel the most contemptible and despicable? The following twelve lines of mockery do not seem at all inappropriate:
Grovel, grovel, bow and scrape:
kowtow, crawl and lick their boots.
Fawn and flatter, curry favor
from morning until late at night:
We cater to their every need,
and keenly heed their faintest call.
We excuse their cruelest deeds
and blame the victims, one and all
--even babes killed in mother's arms.
Lest we incur their righteous wrath,
we lower and demean ourselves
and keep note: always be umble.