Israel Can't Get Away With the "Holocaust Victim" Routine Anymore

June 3, 2010 (LPAC)—Israel is coming under increasingly broad attack for its killing of unarmed civilians attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The reality is that the Israeli "We can do what we want because we were holocaust victims" operation is a thing of the past. They can't get away with it any more. Everyone can see that the Israelis are committing the same kind of crimes against Palestinians, that were carried out against them.

A particularly apt op-ed appeared in the New York Times, which drew the comparison between the treatment of the Turkish Mavi Marmara, and the good ship Exodus from 1947. International Herald Tribune writer H.D.S. Greenway wrote that many are drawing the parallel. The Exodus was a ship full of Holocaust survivors which sailed for Palestine in 1947, seeking to be able to find refuge in that land. Rather than permit them to land, the British occupiers of Palestine opened fire on the ship, killing numerous of the refugees. All perfectly legal, Greenway notes, but a moral atrocity.

U.S. author Paul Craig Roberts also pens an op-ed excoriating the Israelis — and President Obama — for the murders. Obama is complicit in Israel's war crimes, he says; his "12-hour silence in the face of extreme barbarity" is his signal that he's going to toe the line. Roberts also creams the so-called evangelical Christians who always go along with such Israeli barbarity.

What neither author addresses is the sine qua non for ending this horror: To break the British-controlled Sykes-Picot horror, British puppet Obama must be removed from office, now.