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What is Canada's position on the "conflict" currently unfolding in Lebanon? It's a simple question, one posed repeatedly by the CBC's 'The National' host Peter Mansbridge of Canada's minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay tonight with little effect. Who speaks for Canada, according to the minister, is the G8.
That's just great!
A day following the immolation of a Canadian family visiting relatives in Beirut beneath an Israeli bomb, all the representatives of this country, those whose visage projects the nation's image across the world, can bring themselves to say of this war crime come home is:
"Go ask the G8 what we think about this."
[This is from July 17, 2006, as the "war" in Lebanon was underway.]
Couched in sombre tones by ever insouciant anchor Peter
Mansbridge, to perhaps transmit the mildest of rebukes to the masters
of the Israeli juggernaut currently taking a neighbouring nation to
pieces, and cloaking the naked aggression.
Behind the veil of
the official line of "provocation by terrorists," (according to minister Mackay, the kidnap
of the now world famous soldiers by Hezbollah, was an entirely
"unprovoked" attack) the heart of what lay behind this current "escalation" isn't addressed.
Montreal's El-Ahkras family were not the first clan blasted to pieces
by Israeli bombs falling from above. Perhaps The National's host was
too genteel to mention the families perished during Israel's on-going
terror campaign, fetchingly called, 'Summer Rains' currently falling over Palestine?
But
he might have thought to educated the minister, and the Canadian people
paying his salary, to inform them of the facts as printed in several
"credible" corporate news organs.
Those claiming to hold the captured
soldiers clearly say their actions were a direct response to Israel's
murder and mayhem campaign, its "Killing in the Rain" terror
production, shooting now in Palestine.
That high ranking Hamas
officials, kidnapped from Gaza two days before the initial taking of
the young Israeli corporal there might be construed by one with a mind
for detail to be a "provocative" act has evaporated
the short memory span of minister MacKay, and found not worth a
mention by Mansbridge or his colleagues in the corporate news.
It's
amazing, (comical but for the horrendous realities occuring today in
Palestine) Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and elsewhere to watch the
linguistic gymnastics of State representatives and State broadcasters,
literally squirming to avoid anything resembling a criticism of the
single most profligate scofflaw on the world stage, save the towering
hypocrisy of its American benefactor, that is Israel.
Quickly cut to...
The aftermath of Hezbollah's rocket attacks against cities
within Israel... Here document the people effected... "It's despicable
cowardice to rain bombs on civilians"... And deplore attacks against
civilians anywhere...
Neglected by the CBC: pictures of the dead of Lebanon...
Reduce to statistical oblivion...
Commercial...
Video is available of those most horribly effected by the
"Guernica on the Levant;" pictures of limbless babes, headless mothers,
uncles, aunts, fathers, sons and daughters rendered to pulpy mush,
reduced to raw hamburger goo; held in the arms of the survivors,
shocked and frantic to salvage something of the life that once dwelt
there.
No? Me and Peter Mansbridge either... It's on to the panel discussion... after the break...
But before that, the round table convenes to roundly
agree: Iran and Syria are really to blame for wiping out the El-Ahkras
family in Beirut.
This astonishing leap of
logic proffered by Andrew Coyne, of the vaunted 'National Post.' The
Post is the crown jewel of the crapulent Canwest Global media monolith,
(the same made infamous by their May 19th front page doggerel, 'Iran
Eyes Badges for Jews,' a ham-fisted propaganda effort, questioned
on-line by the Post itself moments after it hit the streets) The
jingoistic attempt to foment war against Iran was an all-time
journalistic low. I wrote this at the time.
Back to Dunkirk!
Perhaps
it was Peter Mansbridge's last stab at redemption? Or, maybe it's the
limit we can expect from those slaving away in the corpo/State media,
but Pete slyly inserted a reference verbotten in any discussion of
things Israel: The Nazi Comparison.
Mansbridge
opened his remarks, on a new subject to divert from the murderous
behaviour of the Israelis against their nearest neighbours; the topic shifts to "What to do about the thousands of Canadian remaining
alive under the Israeli barrage against Lebanon?"
There Peter, or his
producers tag the piece, 'Canada's Dunkirk in Lebanon.' Or something
likewise. Finally: A glimmer of truth emanates Canada's
"trusted" news source.
Of course, this refers to the evacuation of
British and Canadian soldiers from France following a disastrous
invasion by Hitler's Nazis. Like those trapped with their backs to the
sea facing an unstoppable military machine, the Lebanese would
appreciate the comparison; but their electricity plants are bombed.
Peter's comparison is apt: In
everything they've done these decades past, and continue now at a
quickened pace, Israel resembles perfectly the fascist ideologies that
paradoxically parented the State of Israel.
The
examples are legion, and are daily made more evident. It is a lawless
regime, doing as much damage to its own citizens as it metes out to its
perceived enemies. It is a violent, remorseless destroyer of worlds for
which killing it almost seems is done for its own sake, and it's
stoking a fire that threatens now to inflame the entire region, and the
world.
In Canada, a primary supporter of Israel's and America's
brutal, Iraq-esque sanctions, (levied for no other reason than
Palestinians' temerity to elect a government unsuitable to Israel
during the hyped elections there last January) the continued
deprivation of monies, medicines, food, and any hope of escaping their
walled concentration camp "country" against the Hamas government is also not considered "provocation." In fact, it's just another unmentionable aspect of the "conflict" unfolding over there.
Of
course, as the government has no idea what to do about the Canadians
currently trapped beneath the aerial destruction of Lebanon, Peter's
second "Dunkirk" in Lebanon, (and Afghanistan, for that matter) might
better have been tagged, 'Canada's Second Dieppe.'
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