Gilad Atzmon views Israeli Deputy Premier Moshe Yaalon’s contention that the quest for justice against Israeli war criminals is the weapon of losers and reminds Yaalon and other Israeli war crimes suspects and their stooges in the UK of the fate that awaits them in the International Criminal Court.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe (Bogi) Yaalon has told Ynet that "when the Arabs realized they cannot defeat us with their armies, they turned to terrorism and rockets”. But they didn’t stop just there, "now they are realizing that they cannot defeat us this way either, so they are taking the path of de-legitimization".
Yaalon is a retired chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces. He knows pretty well that, as things stand, it is the IDF [“Israel Defence Forces”] that didn’t win a single war since 1967. Yes, it killed many and it starved millions but it didn’t win a single war. As if this were not enough, in 2006 the IDF was humiliated in Lebanon by a tiny paramilitary organization, Hezbollah. In its last Gaza campaign, the IDF failed to achieve any of its military targets (destroying the Hamas leadership, dismantling its rocket-launching capability and freeing a captive Israeli soldier). Considering the damage “Operation Cast Lead” inflicted on Israeli public relations, the IDF initiative is more accurately described as a total disaster.
Yaalon and his fellow retarded Hasbara campaigners had better internalize this obvious fact: it is Israel's actions that are delegitimizing the Jewish state and the Zionist cause. It is the Israeli actions and Israel’s supportive Jewish lobbies that are bringing the level of Jew hatred to a new height. Israel is not that young anymore. It is 61 years old and it had better start to take responsibility for its actions.
Addressing the recent arrest warrant issued against former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in England, Yaalon said he warned former British Prime Minister Tony Blair more than two years ago about the "flawed policy in respect to arrest warrants against myself and other senior Israeli officials".
Yaalon probably doesn’t realize how vulnerable Blair’s situation in Britain is at the moment. Blair is not exactly a name that buys legitimacy in this country at this point in time. In his interview, Yaalon maintained: “We need to tell the Brits that we're in the same boat, as their commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan clearly say." Yaalon is partially correct. But to be precise, it is Blair, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Yaalon and Livni that are indeed pushed together in the same symbolic boat, the boat that may eventually dock in The Hague for a very long time.
However Yaalon is totally mistaken to think that Britons and Israelis are in the same boat or share the same fate. The truth of the matter is obvious: while 94 per cent of the Israelis supported IDF brutality in Gaza, the Britons are extremely unhappy with the presence of their soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes the general public, British military generals, politicians, cabinet ministers, intellectuals and artists. Tony Blair indeed launched an illegal war. He sent British soldiers to fight a Zionist war. At the time his No. 1 fundraiser was Lord “Cashpoint” Levy. Blair's support in the media came from Hasbara author David Aaronovitch and the enthusiastic interventionist Nick Cohen. Day by day, we learn more about Tony Blair’s pretext for war. We read the revelations of aides coming forward at the Chilcot Inquiry.
I am not an expert in naval matters but looking at the mounting evidence against Blair, the Jewish lobby and the Israeli leadership, I start to think that the boat may be just too overcrowded with so many rich Zionists, Israeli politicians and officers and one British prime minister. We may need a seriously big ship, just to make sure we schlep them to justice in safety.
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born musician, writer and anti-racism campaigner. His latest jazz album, "In loving memory of America", was released on 1 March 2009 and can be purchased here.
