Gilad Atzmon views British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s visit to the Middle East, where he reaffirmed British solidarity with Israel but did not care to mention Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinians, in particular the people of Gaza whom it is in the process of starving.
The crossing points into the Gaza Strip have been shut down for almost two weeks, forcing the only power plant there to stop functioning, due to the lack of fuel. Last week, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) ran out of food and stopped rations deliveries to 750,000 residents of Gaza.
Although the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now immanent, the Western media refrain from reporting about the emerging disaster. Apparently, there are far more interesting things to write about, much more interesting than millions of Palestinians who are being starved by the Jewish state.
However, the press was kind enough to report that British Foreign Secretary David Miliband spent some time in Israel this week. He had been very worried about issues concerning the avocado and other ethical grocery matters. He wanted to propose a clearer method of labelling food products that are sourced in the occupied West Bank and sold to consumers in Britain.
Although this could have been an opportunity for Britain and the EU to restrain Israel’s lethal enthusiasm, Miliband fell short, far too short of doing so. At the end of the day, Miliband is what you may call a grocery humanist. His ethical thinking is orientated around nutrition and ethical digestion. This is the most degenerate and probably the lowest form of left thinking. At least I really wanted to believe that the left could not go any lower than that.
Yet, Miliband is a dynamic person. Owing to the escalation of violence in the region, he visited the Israeli town of Sderot, which borders on Gaza, accompanied by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak. He blatantly expressed support for Israel’s criminal policies, saying: “I’m here today because Sderot has become the front line of Israel’s security. It’s very important that countries like mine and others show solidarity with the people of Sderot and that’s what I’m doing today.” Miliband didn’t visit Gaza. He also didn’t mention that countries like his should show solidarity with the millions of dispossessed Palestinian refugees that are now shelled and starved to submission. Although Miliband sincerely cares about avocados and ethical nutrition, millions of Palestinians who are left to eat sand do not seem to concern him at all.
However, Miliband couldn’t stay in the region for too long, as he has to rush back home. In London he is scheduled to meet Israeli President Shimon Peres, the elder politician who was the pioneer of the Israeli nuclear project. The man who introduced weapons of mass destruction to the Middle East. The man who has more blood on his hands than any other living Israeli politician (except the vegetable Ariel Sharon). Miliband should be in London in time to join President Peres and unveil a special plaque at the Foreign Office honouring British diplomats who helped save Jews during the Holocaust.
I wonder how many British diplomats will be honoured for saving a single Palestinian kid in the current Israeli-inflicted Holocaust? If there are any such British politicians and diplomats, clearly Miliband would not be one of them. Reading what he had to say to the people of Sderot, he is quite simply an enthusiastic supporter of Israeli crimes against humanity.
Meanwhile, President Peres is having a good time in London this week. In the framework of his visit, he will hold a round of meetings with the Queen, Crown Prince Charles, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, David Miliband and the opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
He will be awarded a Knight Grand Cross, the sixth-most senior award in the British system, which is used to honour individuals who have rendered important services in relation to foreign nations. Seemingly, in Britain, killing innocent Lebanese civilians and starving millions in Gaza must be considered an “important service”. In Belgium, on the other hand, a very similar activity is considered a crime against humanity.
President Peres will also receive an honorary degree from Kings College, London, for his efforts in “furthering peace in the Middle East”. I think that, considering Peres’s usage of ballistic technology against innocent civilians, a PhD in physics would be more appropriate.
While the Jewish state is exercising the most devastating forms of crimes against humanity, the British Government, the British Parliament, the royal family and a major British academic institution are all caught together in bed with no less than a vicious, nuclear-armed butcher.
I am rather impressed. More than ever, I am proud to be British. Such an embracing openness towards wickedness is probably the ultimate form of British kindness and forgiveness. This is something I have never seen in my homeland. Looking at Parliament, Miliband and the royal family, I must admit that I have much to learn about compassion before I become a genuine British subject.
