Island Mentality? (links added on)

With love for country aside, before we are any nationality I like to think we may be human and have some moral fibre even if we seem unable to drum up enough compassion to defend those who need our support, in principle and theory at the very least.
Before we can say we are not responsible for what is going on in Palestine we really should consider Zionism and the manner in which it has managed to thrive. Heavily backed by the US Israel has done nothing other than transgress, transgress, transgress.
 
Before we can possibly say we are unaffected and therefore cannot afford to care ‘too much’ hence shall remain impartial, we should really know that that ship has sailed long ago. Britain has not been impartial and has played its part in history and if it is not willing to take sides in this conflict then where exactly does it stand?

A silly question we might say, if profit from arms sales is dropped into the equation.

But just for the sake of argument:

Israel states loud and clear that it will not and shall not bow to international law; surely that alone should warrant that all of us who strive to abide by such could not, in all good faith, possibly take a political stand of abstention… Or perhaps we see those laws as quite superfluous?  

Taking sides does not have to be about engaging ourselves in conflict but rather about ‘standing up’ for what is morally acceptable. That alone should appear to be our only prerogative.

With an occupier/ oppressor; terrorising civilians left right and centre, how can we not expect an element of those occupied to fight back? 

How can we label that element alone a terrorist when terror is what created it? 

Hamas is largely dismissed when it comes to negotiations of ceasefire... Should we perhaps only negotiate with Israel who believes it has the right to implement major military force against the very people it has been evicting for so long, killing and maiming in the process? ~ Using weaponry so sophisticated and yet with such perverse accuracy killing civilians, mainly children..  and in the process allowing itself to consider the casualties as mere collateral damage?

  ~ Israel's iron dome courtesy of the USA ~

http://www.alleywatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Page-5-graphic.png

With occupier continuing to glean from what can only be termed as stolen property; continuing to persecute, kill and maim the people it, as occupier, has a duty to protect, we can only assume we have nothing against the heavily armed robber concept who decides to get rid of the problem by killing all its hostages.

All the above must sit right with us, otherwise, how could the UK in possession of any moral fibre give itself the liberty to deem itself impartial...

“My country, to its shame, follows the bully that is the United States,” said Loach. “But we are not powerless. We can act together.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/25/ken-loach-calls-for-cultural-boycott-of-israel?CMP=twt_gu
  
"With Gaza’s land mass shrinking due to Israeli military action, it’s about time someone asked: What is the end game?... Look at the region's maps from recent history. Look at the steady erosion of Palestinian land and the acquisition of land by Israel, and you can understand that the present attack on Gaza is not about solely about Hamas. It’s about land. It isn’t just about Hamas’s rockets. It’s about land. It isn’t just about Hamas’s tunnels. It’s about land. It isn’t about kidnappings. It is about land. It isn’t even about meeting a housing crisis in Israel. It is about grabbing land from the Palestinians in Gaza and the natural resources that go with the land, upon the occasion of Israel’s military invasion of Gaza."
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/gaza-buffer-zone-dennis-kucinich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDYiBls99w 
video clip: FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE 

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