WHAT IF IRAN HAD CARRIED OUT THE FLOTILLA CARNAGE?

Sea faring Captain Ahmedinajad

WHICH NATION IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE?

March 2007, the Iranian Navy seized 15 British servicemen who had strayed into their waters. For all the Iranians knew they were up to no good, planting mines or something.

Not a shot was fired, and shortly all were released by order of Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Today, the Israelis murdered 19 innocent civilians on a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza in an unprovoked attack.

The ships had men, women and children on board. The participants included journalists, EU parliamentarians, and even a Nobel prize winner. They were simply seeking to lift the inhuman blockade of Gaza, which is essentially strangling the people there.

Which of these nations,

Iran or Israel,

is a threat to world peace?

Submitted by Kourosh Ziabari

June 3, 2010

It's not unjustifiable to consider Israel as the absolute incarnation of fraudulence, relentlessness and brutality. Since its establishment, the Zionist regime has carried out actions which contravene the international regulations and cancel out the human rights in a way or another.

Only a brief look into the account of Israel's bloody interaction with the Palestinian people over the past years shows us that this fabricated regime does not deserve "the right of existence", as the U.S. and European officials put it periodically.

The Monday assault of the Israel Defense Forces into the flotilla of humanitarian aids which was heading to the besieged Gaza Strip from Turkey left at least 10 dead and several other wounded.

Never mind that Israel's criminal action violated the 4^th Geneva 1949 Convention. Just imagine for a single moment that Iran had carried out the carnage instead of Israel.

Simply replace the two names and then read the news as reported by CNN: "The Free Gaza Movement, one of the organizers of the aid, said that Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the deck of one of the ships early Monday and immediately opened fire on unarmed civilians."

Since September 2000, Israel killed more than 6,300 Palestinians, most of whom were children and defenseless civilians.

Israel has also demolished more than 25,000 Palestinian homes since 1967.

It possess up to 200 nuclear warheads in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution 487.

Interestingly, it receives something around $7 million of military aid from the U.S. per day.

7,383 Palestinians are being kept in the prisons of Israel.

The racist regime of Israel has built 223 settlements on the Palestinians' confiscated lands.

Over the six-year period between September 2000 and February 2006, 36589 Palestinians were injured by the Israeli forces of whom 3530 Palestinians were permanently disabled or maimed.

Shockingly, this six-year period was witness to the confiscation of 249680 km² of Palestinian lands.

Israeli forces even refused to overlook the Palestinian trees as they uprooted 1,187,762 Palestinian trees from 2000 to 2006.

This shows the nature of the brutal regime of Israel which is even at odds with the natural resources and trees, let alone the human beings.

Although it's practically unthinkable, try to replace Iran and Israel, imagining for a single moment that Iran is the occupying state that kills at least two foreign civilians a day, beleaguers some 1.5 million people who don't have any access to the barest rudiments of their daily life and live under the continual threats of military assault and are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

Would the so-called international community tolerate it? Would the UN Secretary General suffice to a simple "expression of concern" with regards to such an incessant viciousness, if it had not been Israel?

To be honest with ourselves, Israel is enjoying an unconditional impunity from all of the international rules, laws and regulations and acts like an autonomous state which does not come in terms with any obligation and responsibility.

After the dissolution of South Africa's apartheid regime, which was recently revealed to have had a nuclear deal with Tel Aviv in 1957, Israel is the only apartheid entity which remains on the face of the world map and the unyielding supports of the superpowers holds up this flimsy existence at any rate.

United States and its European allies never gave in their supports to the Israel and backed the felonies of Tel Aviv even in the most crucial pivots, such as the Operation Cast Lead of the September 2008 – January 2009 which led to the termination of Israel's diplomatic relations with four countries: Venezuela, Bolivia, Qatar and Mauritania.

Anyway, the international reactions to the latest brutality of Israel in a pre-dawn attacking to the civilians asleep in a humanitarian aids flotilla which included 700 peace activists from different nationalities was expectable and at the same time, unpardonably deplorable.

The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who has several times attacked Iran over its nuclear program has simply expressed his regret over the deaths and injuries which "occurred", shrugging off to the responsibility of the atrocious perpetrator and the architect of the massacre.

"Canada deeply regrets the loss of life and the injuries suffered. We are currently looking for more information in order to shed light on what exactly happened."

The ridiculous statement of the Canadian Premier reads. Canada is still looking for information about what has happened! Maybe the Israel Defense Force can answer the questions well! "They had not coordinated with us as to the shipping of humanitarian aids into Gaza, so we shot them killed in the morning."

Victoria-based activist Kevin Neish was aboard a flotilla of boats stormed by Israeli troops earlier this week. (CBC)

Kevin Neish of Victoria, B.C.

INTERVIEW WITH NEISH AFTER HIS RETURN HOME ON RABBLE RADIO

Once again, as a Canadian, I apologize to all people who care about humanity and such events as this latest obscene act of Israel, I apologize from the bottom of my soul. As with every country and people, many of us do not agree with what our "leaders", planted in the helm by the fanatic Chabad Lubavitch, say or do.

Our nation's complicity with the Zionists is beyond embarrassing to so many of us. Harper was with Net 'n Yahoo when the news of the attack reached them and I am sure they had a little heart to heart before speaking to the world, condoning this latest slaughter, even as the rest of us were appalled by what was unfolding before our eyes. At least one person from my city, Victoria, was among those arrested. He was also among the first released and returned home in good shape.

THE SHAMEFUL REACTIONS OF GOVERNMENTS INTERNATIONALLY

The reaction of the other countries was not something of more value. Some of them summoned the Israeli ambassadors for clarifications, some of them regretted the death of civilians and sympathized with the families of the dead, some of them expressed their "serious concern" over the happening and the rest remained indifferent as the Israeli officials gave their strong backing to the massacre, leaving thousands of unanswered questions and bunches of ambiguity regarding the modality of international relations which make a fabricated state such as Israel so guaranteed and impervious to international regulations that nobody can stop it.

The NPT 2010 review conference in which 189 countries unanimously called on Israel to put its nuclear activities and facilities under the comprehensive IAEA safeguards was similarly responded arrogantly by Tel Aviv: We are not NPT signatory and thus we don't need its supervision, we want to possess our nuclear weapons to use them whenever necessary!

Anyway, the "international community" which in the most cases comprises the United States and its European friends who gave birth to this inauspicious child should tolerate the consequences of the great mistake they made 60 years ago.

From the very beginning, it was clear that the establishment of the regime of Israel would be tantamount to insecurity, anxiety and disorder in the Middle East.

(I still maintain that this tension was part of the Rothschild long term agenda for the eventual destruction of the Arab nations.)

Now Israel is expanding the frontiers of its aggressiveness and one can easily foresee the days when the European and American civilians are massacred by the Zionist regime, a simple instance of which we witnessed in the flotilla case.

Hell is a Jewish state devoid of Jewish values that picks up where the anti-Semites, the pogromers, and the exilers left off. Hell is a Jewish prime minister who has become a cannibal of his own people. Hell is when a country has lost its will to exist and begins a process of national suicide. Hell is when Jews with Jewish values have become outcast in their own land. Hell is when the Jewish state becomes worse than the exile. ~ Gershon Perlman

Again, I'm thinking of the same question.

What would happen if Iran, my country,

had carried out such a vicious action?

The country which has never attacked

nor occupied any lands over the past 100 years;

the country which has never killed

any foreign civilian under fallacious pretexts;

Would Iran have been treated

the same way as Israel?