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Why Condemn Israel But Not Iranian Government Brutality?
06.24.2009.10:34
 The European Left, the Democrats, the Liberals, the leaders of the West, all go rampant when Israel attacks the Gaza Strip. Where are they now? Why Obama, Blair, Sarkozy keep on sitting on the fence at the time that Iranian Regime is slaughtering protestors and crushing their basic right to be able to protest?
Tell me, where is everyone? To where have they vanished, all those who protested against Israel’s violence during Operation Cast, Lead or the Second Lebanon War, or Defense Shield or even the Hague when we were dragged there by our hair when we dared to try build a separation barrier between us and the suicide bomber? Here and there we see protests but they are mainly Iranian immigrants. In principle, Europe is calm and relaxed. Likewise, the USA. Here few dozens, there few thousands. What, they have vanished because it is Teheran, and not here?
Is it possible that all those Europeans who chase peace and justice, British professors who strive for freedom and equality, the friends who fill up the newspapers, the magazines, the academic gazettes with their variety of different demands the ban Israel, undermining Zionism, and blame us and our country for all of the world’s suffering and morbidity, have gone on a long vacation?
Now of all times, when the Basij militia forces hooligans have begun slaughtering innocent civilians in the city squares of Tehran? What, they are not connected to the Internet? They do not have YouTube? Terrible virus infected their computer? Their justice glands were removed in a complicated surgical procedure (so they can be successfully re-transplanted for the next conflict or operation in Gaza)? How can it be that when a Jew kills a Muslim, the entire world boils, and when extreme Islam regime slaughters its citizens their only sin is their strive for freedom, the world is silent?
Can you imagine that this was not happening now in Teheran, rather, as noted, here; let us say in Shchem (Bablus). The Palestinians spontaneous protests would have turned into an on going blood bath. The border patrol troops, armed with knives, on motorbikes would have slaughtering protestors. A young woman would have been shot in the bight day light by a sniper, dying in front of the camera.
Obama is stuttering
Actually, why imagine? It is possible to simply recall what happened with the Al-Dura kid. This issue (we need to admit very difficult) flooded the world from one end to another. The fact that afterward came an independent investigation that arose difficult questions regarding the type of the weapon from which Al-Dura was shot, did not make any difference to anyone. The Zionists were responsible for that.
And where are the leaders of the world? Where is Obama’s wonderful rhetoric ability? Where has his sublime treasure of words disappeared to? Where is the inclination that is supposed to be built in any American President to defend and to come to the aid of those who seek freedom anywhere on the face of the planet? What is this stutter?
Someone who is connected to the Iranian events and security said yesterday that if Obama would have demonstrated in regard to the Iranian issue a quarter of his determination that his demonstrates when he attacks Israel on the settlements in the territories issue, everything would have looked different.
“The protestors in Iran are begging for help,” the man, who served for many years in senior posts, said. “They need to know that they have a back, that there is a world out there that supports them, but instead they see apathy. That is all happening in a very critical stage of this struggle on the soul of Iran and on the freedom of the Iranian people. It is so sad.”
The West is indifferent
Or for example, the European Union (EU). The one that the height of justice and peace is on its lips each day of the year. Why its leaders aren’t declaring openly (with open mouth) that the world wants Iran free and democratic and will give her unconditional support? Could it be that the tongue of too many Europeans is still attached to dark places? The poor excuse that such support will be sufficient for Khamenei and Ahmadinejad to have a pretext to call the protestors “the West Agents,” does not hold water. As it is they call them “the West Agents,” so what is the difference? To think that only half a year ago, when Europe was flooded with demonstrations against Israel, Leftists and Islamists carried pictures of Nasrallah the proxy child of the Ayatollahs’ regime. The fact that we are talking about a dark regime did not bother them. We are speaking about mania but it does not seep in and affect the tired West. If there is a truly free world, let it appear at once! And will, for instance, impose sanctions on those who slaughter their people. Just like they imposed sanctions on North Korea and the Burmese regime. It is a matter of will not ability.
Apparently, when it comes to Iran, something happens to the international community adherence to justice and peace. The oppression is clear and known. The Internet age transmits everything live. And this is good. Bullies on behalf of the regime are shooting and stabbing many protestors that are screaming for freedom
Do we need anything else? Apparently yes. Because this will not help. The West remains pathetic. Obama is inexperienced. And why he should not be, after all he aims for a dialogue with the Ayatollahs. And this is nice, really nice, the problem is that at this stage there is no dialogue, but there is death and murder in the streets. At this stage there is a need to forget the manners rules.
Continuing sitting on the fence
The voices that Obama makes raise the suspicion that perhaps we have in fact business with a new version of Chamberlain. Appeasement is a good quality especially when it comes after George Bush’s clumsy militarism, but when appeasement becomes blindness, we have a serious problem.
The brave voice of Angela Markel, who, yesterday, announced her peremptory support for the Iranian nation and its right for freedom, is for the meantime a voice calling in the West desert. It is a pity though that she does not declare a total economic sanction, based on the fact that we are talking about a European country that is the most invested in Iran’s infrastructure.
The British Foreign Secretary David Miliband joined her. It is too late, it is not enough. Mullions, demanding freedom, went into the streets in Iran. And the West in on the fence. One foot here, one foot there.
There is another Islam. Today it is already clear. Even in Iran. There, there are millions of Muslims who support freedom, human rights, and women’s equality. These millions despise Khamenei, also Chaves, and also Nasrallah. However, part of the tired Left prefers the Ayatollahs’ regime to them.
The main thing that they wave flags against Israel and the USA. The question is why the Democrats, the Liberals, and Obama, and Blair, and Sarkozy continue sitting on the fence. It is not a separation wall, it a fence of shame.
Translated from Hebrew by Nurit Greenger from original story by Ben Kaspit and Ben Dror Yemini
NRG
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