This was written by me in 2014. I am still hunted by the Operation Protective Edge by which Palestine was ethnically cleansed for over 50 days.
I’m still hunted by inaction of the US President Barack Obama and his harsh and bitter language referring to Palestinians as “Barbarians”.
Anyhow this is what I jutted down 5 years ago, I read and refer to my own old posts because there are events that should never be forgotten.
I’m still hunted by inaction of the US President Barack Obama and his harsh and bitter language referring to Palestinians as “Barbarians”.
Anyhow this is what I jutted down 5 years ago, I read and refer to my own old posts because there are events that should never be forgotten.
When we think of ISIS, Al Nusrah Front, and various potpourri of fundamentalist groups, not only the support we see for them (despite their eschewed ideology) is not new, but that the support is growing.
However, the vile and unexcused behavior of members of these groups, majority of whom are from Muslim countries, are not a 'cause' in itself but rather the "effect' and/or "consequences" of decades of being colonized/occupied by Europe and the US.
Some occupiers like Israel, a victim of the West herself have become victimizer, and have been historically supported by the West in their brutality and systematic annihilation of indigenous people of the region (Palestine.)
The western occupiers killed men, women, children and the elderly. Humiliating people in their own land, raping the women, imprisoning the men, and in general perpetuating a cycle of violence that went on for centuries.
The impetus almost always has been greed for natural resources, such as oil, gas, precious metals, by proxy of installing puppet regimes whom facilitated and paved the road for not only raping of the land but its people.
So in short, the majority of these extremist groups come from countries whose histories has been negatively affected by the colonizers of yesteryear and Imperial power of today.
Hence it is important to understand that they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us for what we stand for, they hate us because we have destroyed generations after generations of their people, they hate us because we have no respect for their culture, their lives, their livelihood.
It is true that we never look at ourselves as "colonists" but in fact that's exactly who we are. We invade countries like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria if it serves our 'national interest'. Our 'national interest' ties to either their 'natural resources' or their 'geopolitical position.'
They are looked at as simply impediment to our expansionist agenda, like a bump in the road they slow us down, so we devise a way to remove the road bump. We do it by killing their people, by subjugating their masses, by choking their economy, and by beheading their culture.
We do all that under guise of 'liberation', alas the only thing we manage to liberate and free them from is their resources, their land, their sovereignty, their national identity. We decapitate their dignity and their rights to self-determination.
Many from our both sides (ours & theirs) fall victim to this twisted game we play, many become the collateral damage of the cycle of violence we foster. In the process neither they nor us would ever know peace. Peace is the first casualty and in reality we are all headless.
There is no excuse for butchery of any kind, we can't kill and say killing is wrong, we can't destabilize and say we won't stand for the breach of our security, we can not fight terrorism and contribute to terror all over the globe, we can't violate human rights and claim we respect it.
Last but not least, we can not instigate war to bring about peace.
Barack H. Obama has been in office for 68 months to this day, Syria is the 7th country he has bombed and destabilized, but let us be realistic, Barack Obama is one in the long line of executors of US global aggression.
I care not if he is better or worse than the one before him or the one who would come after him, the question is if he who is executor of the US policies is any better that the hooded man dressed in black and about to behead yet another victim kneeling down helplessly awaiting his fate.
The answer is very clear to me, he is not any better, butchery is not defined by the nature of one's crime, but by the criminal act itself.
However, the vile and unexcused behavior of members of these groups, majority of whom are from Muslim countries, are not a 'cause' in itself but rather the "effect' and/or "consequences" of decades of being colonized/occupied by Europe and the US.
Some occupiers like Israel, a victim of the West herself have become victimizer, and have been historically supported by the West in their brutality and systematic annihilation of indigenous people of the region (Palestine.)
The western occupiers killed men, women, children and the elderly. Humiliating people in their own land, raping the women, imprisoning the men, and in general perpetuating a cycle of violence that went on for centuries.
The impetus almost always has been greed for natural resources, such as oil, gas, precious metals, by proxy of installing puppet regimes whom facilitated and paved the road for not only raping of the land but its people.
So in short, the majority of these extremist groups come from countries whose histories has been negatively affected by the colonizers of yesteryear and Imperial power of today.
Hence it is important to understand that they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us for what we stand for, they hate us because we have destroyed generations after generations of their people, they hate us because we have no respect for their culture, their lives, their livelihood.
It is true that we never look at ourselves as "colonists" but in fact that's exactly who we are. We invade countries like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria if it serves our 'national interest'. Our 'national interest' ties to either their 'natural resources' or their 'geopolitical position.'
They are looked at as simply impediment to our expansionist agenda, like a bump in the road they slow us down, so we devise a way to remove the road bump. We do it by killing their people, by subjugating their masses, by choking their economy, and by beheading their culture.
We do all that under guise of 'liberation', alas the only thing we manage to liberate and free them from is their resources, their land, their sovereignty, their national identity. We decapitate their dignity and their rights to self-determination.
Many from our both sides (ours & theirs) fall victim to this twisted game we play, many become the collateral damage of the cycle of violence we foster. In the process neither they nor us would ever know peace. Peace is the first casualty and in reality we are all headless.
There is no excuse for butchery of any kind, we can't kill and say killing is wrong, we can't destabilize and say we won't stand for the breach of our security, we can not fight terrorism and contribute to terror all over the globe, we can't violate human rights and claim we respect it.
Last but not least, we can not instigate war to bring about peace.
Barack H. Obama has been in office for 68 months to this day, Syria is the 7th country he has bombed and destabilized, but let us be realistic, Barack Obama is one in the long line of executors of US global aggression.
I care not if he is better or worse than the one before him or the one who would come after him, the question is if he who is executor of the US policies is any better that the hooded man dressed in black and about to behead yet another victim kneeling down helplessly awaiting his fate.
The answer is very clear to me, he is not any better, butchery is not defined by the nature of one's crime, but by the criminal act itself.
Susan Nevens - September 25, 2014
