The west might also ask Russia to make a financial contribution to UN HIV/Aids funds to make up for the death of scientists who were on their way to an Aids conference in Melbourne. And from Donetsk to Gaza, we need to change air traffic regulations so planes are not cruising within striking distance of a rocket. Over the past six months Vladimir Putin has redrawn the map of Europe, fuelled war in a neighbouring sovereign state, and waged a propaganda campaign, much of it directed at the west, and not seen since the cold war. The west has largely decided to leave well alone. In light of what has happened, this is no longer a suitable way to deal with Putin's amoral, anarchic and brutish Russia.
[source : Ukraine: it's time brutish Putin was held to account, Editorial, The Observer, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/20/observer-editorial-flight-mh17-west-must-challenge-russia-putin, 20th July 2014]
Brutish Putin?
Brutish Russia?
The same editorial began:
The evidence is mounting. It suggests that pro-Russian separatists, using a sophisticated Buk missile, shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday, as it flew above eastern Ukraine.
What evidence? Evidence that the Ukrainian Security Service put out that was manufactured BEFORE MH17 was shot down? Or the photographic evidence that was initially said to show the Russian BUK system that shot down MH17 rushing back to Russia before it was found, when the BUK system in the photo actually belonged to the Ukrainian military and the photo was taken in an area of Ukraine controlled by the Ukrainian military? Or the evidence provided on social media, by fools such as Brown Moses who still after nearly a year is still trying to pin Ghouta on Assad, yet such an event was predicted right here on this blog weeks before it happened?
The Guardian/Observer barely reports on the many civilian deaths of civilians in East Ukraine, almost as many in Gaza, caused by the Guardian's beloved Ukrainian military, instead telling the EU in the same editorial:
It [the EU] should consider listing the Donetsk and Luhansk "people's republics" as terrorist groups.
As a reminder of what happened in Ukraine: Yanukovich had decided to sign an agreement with Russia that offered better terms for the people of Ukraine. This pissed off the IMF/Wall Street/EU crowd. So violent neo-Nazis were unleashed, who chased the Yanukovich government out and declared themselves the new government. They then began repressing dissent, and their supporters in Odessa chased a bunch of anti neo-Nazis into a building, set it on fire, burning many inside alive, shooting at those in the windows jumping to escape the flames, and then beating to death those who survived the jump. The new government has...SURPRISE!...signed Ukraine over to the IMF/Wall Street/EU crowd. All this violence was supported by the likes of The Guardian and the NATO media who portrayed the violence in Ukraine as an independent bloodless uprising of downtrodden peasants against a Russophile tryanny, and not the violent NATO-sponsored neo-Nazi coup that it actually was.
A month ago three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and found dead near Hebron. A splinter group of ISIS claimed responsibility. But Netanyahu blamed Hamas. In revenge, a Palestinian boy was kidnapped and burned alive by extremist Israelis (now there's a phrase you rarely see!). This provoked Hamas rocket fire into Israel. So Netanyahu started another war on Gaza.
I predicted this war. I said it was going to be at least as bad as Operation Cast Lead. And sadly I am going to be right...again.
This morning I have looked back at how The Guardian itself, through its editorials, has commented on this latest slaughter in Gaza by Israel. I did something similar last year when I looked at how The Guardian/Observer editorials commented on Syria after the event of 21st August last year, and found that they immediately and consistently accused Assad of Ghouta, not once considering the rebels as culprits despite the overwhelming evidence and logic that they stood to gain, and expressed great joy at Syria relinquishing its chemical weapons while not once mentioning Israel's much more powerful and destructive arsenal of WMDs.
The following editorials in The Guardian/Observer have been published since Operation Protective Edge began on 8th July:
21st July 2014 The Guardian view on... a futile war in Gaza
16th July 2014 The Guardian view on the chances of a Gaza ceasefire
13th July 2014 The Guardian view on the conflict in Gaza
The most recent editorial, The Guardian view on the causes of the fighting in Gaza, on Gaza was published on 25th July...A WEEK AGO! Since then there have been Israeli attacks on United Nations buildings, and busy market places during a ceasefire, and hundreds and hundreds more dead, the vast majority civilians.
In just over 3 weeks Israel has killed, not just wounded but actually killed, over 1300 people in Gaza, most of whom were civilians. Killed. Dead. Blown to bits. Decapitated. Dead. Yet where are the editorials using phrases such as "Brutish Israel"?
Israel is the occupier. It has legal responsibilities which it is not honouring. This is why organisations such as Hamas exist, why they have so much support inside and outside of Gaza, and why it is legal for them to resist. Yet for all their rocket fire into Israel, what death and damage have Hamas caused in Israel? Very, very little. Yet Israel has killed to death over 1300, most of whom were civilians. Most Israeli dead were IDF killed during the ground invasion of Gaza.
So we have to ask, how can The Guardian/Observer come out against 'brutish' Putin and Russia so strongly and overtly, while not condemning Israel's one-sided slaughter of civilians in Gaza, yet finding the time and space to write the most bizarre editorial on eating ice cream cones, and today's editorial on Phil Lesh!
Therefore the following people should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, should write their next articles/comments in The Guardian condemning The Guardian/Observer, and end those articles/comments with either their resignations from The Guardian or stating that they will no longer be writing for The Guardian:
Owen Jones
Seamus Milne
Both of these are allegedly anti war, yet they write for a newspaper that is so obviously a key member of the NATO/Israeli warmongering empire.
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