"What I say is I have faith in the
efficiency of the law.
Perhaps that is because I'm a lawyer and not a missionary.
But I think history, which proves so many things, proves me right."
Thurgood Marshall
The great shampoo and toilet paper
embargo of '04.
They gonna be uncomfortable from top ta bottom.
Crime
and Punishment
Could
an Israeli write a note to the
embassies of the Christian nations (other than the United States),
without
committing treason, saying:
"Whereas
sixty percent of us believe the settlements in Palestine should be
abandoned (Source: Forward (American Jewish
weekly)) and since they were illegal in the first place:
"The Occupying Power shall not deport
or transfer parts
of its own civilian population into the territory it
occupies."
Paragraph 6 Article 49 of The Geneva Convention of 1949.
"And
whereas we are ruled by the vile Likud racist and land thief, Ariel
Sharon, who, September, 2000,
incited the current riot by intruding upon a contested holy site under
armed guard, symbolically proclaiming that:
'There
will never be an end to the settlements,
There will never be an end to the ethnic cleansing,
There will never be a Palestinian State,
And its capital will never be East Jerusalem...'
"Ariel
Sharon, who then rose to power on the platform that he would be the
best (most brutal) person to put down the riot that he himself started,
"Ariel
Sharon who recently met five minutes with Boy George... The Wacko from
Waco, The Great Connector of Dots, Conqueror of Baghdad and Fallujah, Instrument of the Messiah.... and got him to announce:
'Permanence
of the settlements on the West Bank?
Sounds good ta me, yup...'
"Could
you please send your war ships to the Eastern Mediterranean and the
Gulf of Aqabah and create what we might call, for the moment, ...
congestion... around our ports and start a big noisy conversation...
with other Christian nations which do same... about our shampoo supply,
our toilet paper supply and Paragraphy 6, Article 49 of The Geneva
Convention of 1949?"
Could
an Israeli, without committing
treason, write an additional note to the Russian Embassy, and say:
"You
know, you've got a few war ships in the Black Sea, at least.
"Could
you say something like:
'Oh,
we are so embarrassed that Likud and Jerry Falwell have loaded the
joint up with fundamentalist wackos from Russia such as:
'We
are totally embarrassed and can't vote for action against Arab racists
in the Security Council because the wackos in the States aren't doing
anything about the Jewish racists in Israel or the Christian racists in
the States.
'We're
going to start the toilet paper embargo, etc. and ask Turkey and other
NATO countries to join us.'"
And
could an Israeli, without committing
treason, write to the embassies of the Arab and other predominantly
Muslim
nations saying some of those same things and adding:
The
Government of Israel must abandon the settlements on the West
Bank as well as those of Gaza. The Government of the United
States is in a position to force Israel to do so. By simply
turning down the aid dollars and other simple acts.
Both
governments need to explain to the world why everybody else has to obey
Paragraph 6 of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention of 1949 but Israel
does not. For the moment, the answer is "Might makes right and they
don't have to if they don't want to."
Which
makes American representations concerning its love of freedom and the
rule of law quite dubious in the eyes of the 200 nations that regularly
vote against Israel in the United Nations.
The
American Presidents don't "get it". In some instances they know they
can only accomplish "this" but not "that". In some instances they seem
simply ignorant of the persistent message this sends to the world in
general and Muslim peoples in particular. In other instances they
clearly don't want to "get it".
Time
to force Israel to deal with its lawlessness and to do so in the
context of an American election year.
It
would be best if "congestion" around the ports of Israel were created
by Christian or nominally Christian nations.
Of
course this would not prevent Muslim, Buddhist and other nations from vociferously
pressing the matter with the Christian or nominally Christian nations.
And asking them why they haven't done something like this before. Since
the end of the Cold War, at any rate.
Forcing
Israel to obey the law will be good for everyone. Including the
Israelis.
I don't know... would it be
treason?
How 'bout if a Yank did it?
Would that be treason?
Apparently not because I
have, or I'm half way through the list of Washington embassies and
still
chipping away at it.
If they thought police were
going to show up, I expect they would have by now.
For myself, I am returning
to Australia after the American elections.
Australia where all my Jewish friends are vociferously anti-Likud and
anti-American on the settlements issue.
I shall not work or pay
taxes in the United States again until the Fence is on the Green Line
and the
settlements are abandoned and turned over to the Palestinians.
How can I do that?
Cuz I'm an Australian
citizen, too.
And I'd like ta thank me old
friend, John Howard, for goin' right 'long with Georgie Boy's game in
Iraq.
Prob'ly woulda treated us as bad as the Canadians if ya 'adn't... cut
off the
croc meat contracts for the meals ready to eat. Poor Diggers. Ours too.
Bloody
mayhem doin' all that before Boy George did somethin' 'bout the
settlements...
which is what his own consultants told 'im before
September 11
and Colin Powell certainly told 'im after.
And to Rupert Murdock I'd
like to say: "Bloody war monger racist Fox fuck... Australia's lucky to
be rid
of you."
Ariel Sharon... Binyamin
Netanyahu... Jerry Falwell...
May
you live another ten years
To see the Fence on the Green Line.
And the settlements abandoned.
Jerry
Falwell, plus que tout autre Américain.
Ariel Sharon, plus que tout autre Israeli.
Je vous accus.
Je vous accus de faire à la grande tristesse des Notre Mère la Terre.
