Jul 31, 2006, 11:10

Qana is back in the international news just over ten years after the terrible massacre in 1996. The Zionists have once again bombed and killed a large number of defenceless civilians, mainly children. On the previous occasion the casualties numbered over one hundred and this time they were over fifty.

This is clear evidence that the "clinical pin-point-accuracy" of Zionist "carefully targeted" attacks on supposed "terrorists" in the Lebanon is a totally false claim.

What normal people cannot accept is the sheer lack of concern and/or conscience shown by such international criminals as Mr Bush, Mr Olmert, Mr Blair and Dr Rice. Mr Blair's latest Foreign Secretary, Mrs Margaret Beckett (she who was described as "not so much a safe pair of hands, more of a glove-puppet"), refused fully to answer questions put to her on BBC Radio this morning regarding the carefree lack of haste in the policies of the USA and the United Kingdom. I have to admit that I fully understand that she cannot give any justification for the deliberately long drawn-out discussions resulting in continuing delays which increase the loss of innocent lives.

Obviously, if the Bushist régime said "stop", the aggressors would obey, because they rely on the Bushists for their most effective arms as well as for unfailing protection within the United Nations. The ephemeral and artificial "state of Israel" has yet to obey a whole range of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, especially those requiring it to act in accordance with international law in general and that to withdraw behind the frontiers of the lands occupied prior to 1967.

The argument that this rogue state (if this entity can be considered to be a state) has "the right to defend itself" is a total red-herring, since the existence of the "state of Israel" is based upon the crudest form of ethnic cleansing in complete contradiction with the United Nations Charter. This started before the ending of the British (League of Nations and subsequently United Nations) Mandate, and involved murder and threats against ordinary inhabitants, as well as against members of the British administration. It is also still continuing, particularly in the Naqab and in Galilee.

Although Dr Rice has shed a few crocodile tears over the victims at Qana, she has so far done nothing to stop the carnage in the Lebanon, and her Fuehrer has been shown on newsreel footage smilingly babbling about finding a "final solution" (an expression which reminds those of my generation of the late unlamented Adolf Hitler and his followers).

The only valid final solution possible is the ending of Zionist apartheid, and the reversion of the whole of Palestine to being a country where all inhabitants have equal rights of citizenship, regardless of their religious affiliation or lack of it. It also requires the return of land and other property to the rightful owners, or perhaps proper compensation in difficult cases.

As a lawyer, I have to repeat once again that there can be no peace without justice, and that those who refuse justice risk building up further resentment and hatred, thus fueling further terrorism.

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Robert Thompson's analyses and writing on Axis of Logic can be found in the Axis section, Letters from France. He offers refreshing perspectives on international relations with a European perspective. He is a French citizen and a retired Avocat (Trial Lawyer) at the Boulogne-sur-Mer Bar, living with his wife in a small village in Northern France. He was born at Leek (North Staffordshire, England) in 1931, and, after reading Jurisprudence at Oxford University, he became an English Solicitor. He later went to work at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. There he was Director in charge of the Legal Department and also Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration, the most important international commercial arbitration centre on the world. While there, he became the I.C.C. Director in charge of relations with the Arab states, where he travelled for professional reasons, and he worked towards legal cooperation with the countries then within the Comecon. Robert can be reached via e-mail at: robert@axisoflogic.com