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What If Iran Had Carried Out the Gaza Carnage?
By Kourosh Ziabari
Al-Jazeerah, ccun.org, June 7, 2010
It's not unjustifiable to consider Israel as the absolute incarnation
of fraudulence, relentlessness and brutality. Since its establishment, the
Zionist regime has carried out actions which contravene the international
regulations and cancel out the human rights in a way or another. Only a
brief look into the account of Israel's bloody interaction with the
Palestinian people over the past years shows us that this fabricated regime
does not deserve "the right of existence", as the U.S. and European
officials put it periodically. The Monday assault of the Israel
Defense Forces into the flotilla of humanitarian aids which was heading to
the besieged Gaza Strip from Turkey left at least 10 dead and several other
wounded. Never mind that Israel's criminal action violated the 4th Geneva
1949 Convention. Just imagine for a single moment that Iran had carried out
the carnage instead of Israel. Simply replace the two names and then read
the news as reported by CNN: "The Free Gaza Movement, one of the organizers
of the aid, said that Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the
deck of one of the ships early Monday and immediately opened fire on unarmed
civilians." Since September 2000, Israel killed more than 6,300
Palestinians, most of whom were children and defenseless civilians. Israel
has also demolished more than 25,000 Palestinian homes since 1967. It
possess up to 200 nuclear warheads in violation of the United Nations
Security Council resolution 487. Interestingly, it receives something around
$7 million of military aid from the U.S. per day. 7,383 Palestinians are
being kept in the prisons of Israel. The racist regime of Israel has built
223 settlements on the Palestinians' confiscated lands. Over the six-year
period between September 2000 and February 2006, 36589 Palestinians were
injured by the Israeli forces of whom 3530 Palestinians were permanently
disabled or maimed. Shockingly, this six-year period was witness to the
confiscation of 249680 km2 of Palestinian lands. Israeli forces even refused
to overlook the Palestinian trees as they uprooted 1,187,762 Palestinian
trees from 2000 to 2006. This shows the nature of the brutal regime of
Israel which is even at odds with the natural resources and trees, let alone
the human beings. Although it's practically unthinkable, try to
replace Iran and Israel, imagining for a single moment that Iran is the
occupying state that kills at least two foreign civilians a day, beleaguers
some 1.5 million people who don't have any access to the barest rudiments of
their daily life and live under the continual threats of military assault
and are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Would the so-called
international community tolerate it? Would the UN Secretary General suffice
to a simple "expression of concern" with regards to such an incessant
viciousness, if it had not been Israel? To be honest with
ourselves, Israel is enjoying an unconditional impunity from all of the
international rules, laws and regulations and acts like an autonomous state
which does not come in terms with any obligation and responsibility. After
the dissolution of South Africa's apartheid regime, which was recently
revealed to have had a nuclear deal with Tel Aviv in 1957, Israel is the
only apartheid entity which remains on the face of the world map and the
unyielding supports of the superpowers holds up this flimsy existence at any
rate. United States and its European allies never gave in their
supports to the Israel and backed the felonies of Tel Aviv even in the most
crucial pivots, such as the Operation Cast Lead of the September 2008 –
January 2009 which led to the termination of Israel's diplomatic relations
with four countries: Venezuela, Bolivia, Qatar and Mauritania.
Anyway, the international reactions to the latest brutality of Israel in a
pre-dawn attacking to the civilians asleep in a humanitarian aids flotilla
which included 700 peace activists from different nationalities was
expectable and at the same time, unpardonably deplorable. The
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who has several times attacked Iran
over its nuclear program has simply expressed his regret over the deaths and
injuries which "occurred", shrugging off to the responsibility of the
atrocious perpetrator and the architect of the massacre. "Canada deeply
regrets the loss of life and the injuries suffered. We are currently looking
for more information in order to shed light on what exactly happened." The
ridiculous statement of the Canadian Premier reads. Canada is still looking
for information about what has happened! Maybe the Israel Defense Force can
answer the questions well! "They had not coordinated with us as to the
shipping of humanitarian aids into Gaza, so we shot them killed in the
morning." The reaction of the other countries was not something of
more value. Some of them summoned the Israeli ambassadors for
clarifications, some of them regretted the death of civilians and
sympathized with the families of the dead, some of them expressed their
"serious concern" over the happening and the rest remained indifferent as
the Israeli officials gave their strong backing to the massacre, leaving
thousands of unanswered questions and bunches of ambiguity regarding the
modality of international relations which make a fabricated state such as
Israel so guaranteed and impervious to international regulations that nobody
can stop it. The NPT 2010 review conference in which 189 countries
unanimously called on Israel to put its nuclear activities and facilities
under the comprehensive IAEA safeguards was similarly responded arrogantly
by Tel Aviv: We are not NPT signatory and thus we don't need its
supervision, we want to possess our nuclear weapons to use them whenever
necessary! Anyway, the "international community" which in the most
cases comprises the United States and its European friends who gave birth to
this inauspicious child should tolerate the consequences of the great
mistake they made 60 years ago. From the very beginning, it was clear that
the establishment of the regime of Israel would be tantamount to insecurity,
anxiety and disorder in the Middle East. Now Israel is expanding the
frontiers of its aggressiveness and one can easily foresee the days when the
European and American civilians are massacred by the Zionist regime, a
simple instance of which we witnessed in the flotilla case. Again,
I'm thinking of the same question. What would happen if Iran, my country,
had carried out such a vicious action? The country which has never attacked
nor occupied any lands over the past 100 years; the country which has never
killed any foreign civilian under fallacious pretexts; would it have been
treated the same way as Israel?
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