Cailean Bochanan

1st June, 2010

The British government has been unable to specify what exactly it finds unblameworthy about the murderous Israeli assault on a Gaza relief convoy. Referring to the convoy, foreign secretary William Hague stressed that the government had “consistently advised against attempting to access Gaza in this way”. This could have been taken for a bit of friendly advice founded on an intimate knowledge of the homicidal tendencies of our Israeli friends. But clearly it wasn’t. The message was; “you shouldn’t have been there”. David Cameron chose the moment to reaffirm Britain’s commitment to the security of Israel. Former UK ambassador to the UN, Sir Jeremy Greenstock deplored an event which  “was clearly not very well handled”.

The British government, who are always the first to find others tardy in condemning terrorism, has damned itself with faint condemnation of an event which adds a whole new dimension to shoot to kill. For us that means a covert operation not an overt operation. “You done Menezes”- the Israelis could retort, but this was like taking out a whole carriage of Jean-Charles de Menezes on a bright, London, summer morning. According to Turkish sources the assault involved targeted assassination, the Israeli commando having a list of persons to be killed. Apart from anything else this was an act of war against Turkey, a NATO member, and therefore an attack on NATO itself. At the heart of Britain’s mild rebuke, and here there is blame, was , of course, the argument that Israel’s action was counter-productive and Israel should be more attentive to “legitimate criticism” from its friends.

But Israel disagrees. The empire is floundering in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Washington-London-Tel Aviv axis is suffering a whole series of reverses on the military front but especially on the diplomatic front. Even our best friends are in league with the enemy. Our very own New World Order is coming up against the counter-globalisation process, the multipolar concept become incarnate  in alliances and agreements behind our backs, over our heads and in even in our faces. The recent CFR speech by Brzezinski is brutally frank recognising that global political leadership is now “much more diversified, unlike what it was until relatively recently” and lamenting that ” the world has become politically awakened”. Turkish diplomacy has been to the fore in all this and its “solution” to the non-existent but perennial “Iranian nuclear threat” put forward along with Brazil is a mortal threat to our efforts to rally what’s left of the “international community” and isolate Iran.

In the face of so many reverses one could almost despair as Brzezinski seems to. But not Israel. Israel has chosen to lead by example: if the empire is to win out, if the New World Order is really to be in our grasp then we must stop at nothing. Such an order can only be built on unprecedented brutality, an even greater contempt for all laws and norms, an even greater depreciation of human life and culture, an even more thorough- going racism. Israel is showing us the way from a lunatic state to a lunatic alliance. The West must rule and, if not, destroy the world in the course of trying to. The Israeli colonials has shown the new schoolboy coalition in Westminster who wears the long trousers and they have gone weak at the knees.