Israel : What Bertand Russell Said ? ************************************************ Bertand Russell in his last message before death , sent to the World Parliamentarians Conference held in Cairo in February , 1970 said : The development of the crisis in the middle east is both dangerous. Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to reason and has suggested negotiations. This is the traditional role of the imperial powers because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has taken already by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiations from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by the Israel must be condemned, not because no state has the right to annex a foreign territory but because every expansion is also an experiment to discover how much aggression the world will tolerate. The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was given by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless.With every new conflict their numbers have increased. how much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty ? It is abundantly clear that refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict.No people any where in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country , how can any one require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which no body else would tolerate ? We are frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the sufferings of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Isreal is doing today can not be condoned and to invoke the horror of past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. NOTE : Mind Bertand Russell wrote the piece in 1970, 44 years back, and the situation is the same that the so called world including Arab world is keeping eyes shut and supporting Israel directly and indirectly. CSMP is concerned with the fact that we are shouting from roof tops about Israeli genocide of Palestinians but never take positive steps. Just boycott those products which support Israel and see the result. The logic that what we can do, what will happen if just i boycotted has no standing at all. Instead of street protests and shouting, take positive stand.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:40:59 +0000