www.ilyameyer.com – English

With more than 12,000 mortar shells as well as Kassam, Katyusha and Grad rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas government at civilian targets in Israel over the past eight years, the constant bombardment is finally being brought to the attention of the world powers.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the only US public figure to consistently use public funds to block legitimate scrutiny of his birth certificate, the current incumbent of the White House Barack Hussein Obama, recently published an op-ed in a number of newspapers.

In it they wrote “Our duty and our mandate under (the) UN Security Council Resolution is to protect civilians, and we are doing that.

“The International Criminal Court is rightly investigating the crimes committed against civilians and the grievous violations of international law.”

Finally, some straight talk.

Human Rights Watch also expressed its concern about the firing of missiles – both Grad rockets and mortar shells – from within civilian areas into other civilian areas:

“One strike, apparently by a Grad rocket, killed at least eight civilians … Another attack, apparently with a mortar round, hit a medical clinic, wounding four others.

“At least 16 civilians have been killed in indiscriminate attacks,” according to Human Rights Watch, which bases its report on witness and survivor eyewitness accounts, as well as inspections of impact sites.

HRW continues: “Government forces have repeatedly fired mortars and Grad rockets into residential neighborhoods, causing civilian casualties,” according to Peter Bouckaert, the organisation’s emergencies director.

And he has more to say: “The Soviet-made Grad in particular is one of the world’s most inaccurate rocket systems and should never be fired in areas with civilians.”

In an unprecedented step, Human Rights Watch even interviewed four witnesses to the attacks and visited seven impact sites – a high-risk undertaking bearing in mind the constant barrage of missiles launched into civilian areas, reporting: “All of the witnesses said they had not seen or heard fighting in the neighborhood at the time of the attack … Human Rights Watch saw no discernible military targets when visiting the neighborhood.

“No side … should use the indiscriminate Grad in or near areas where there are civilians,” reiterated Bouckaert.

With more than 12,000 missiles fired by the Hamas government regime into exclusively civilian areas, it is no wonder that international figures such as Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama and NGOs such as Human Rights Watch are taking such a strong stance on this human rights disgrace.

There is however a problem.

None of this relates to the fundamentalist Islamist Hamas regime in Gaza that has (a) consistently brutalised its own population, throwing political dissidents off roofs of tall buildings, burning churches and executing gays and (b) has fired more than 12,000 missiles into civilian communities in southern Israel over a period of eight (8) years.

It relates instead to the three (3) weeks that secular Libyan dictator Gaddafi has been fighting to retain hegemony over Libya.

At this time of Pesach (Passover) when Jews the world over are recalling the Exodus from Egypt and their escape from a regime that brutalised them almost to extinction, it is interesting to note that in 2011, the problems are still very much the same:

Brutal political despots, global politics and crass economic gain all interlocking to ignore the human element. What’s unacceptable when the targets are Arab civilians living in oil-rich Libya – prompting world powers to act diplomatically, economically and militarily – warrants nary a comment when exactly the same brutality targets Jewish civilians in Israel, which has no oil.

Of course, it may be nothing at all to do with oil. It may simply be that Israel is the world’s sole Jewish state, whereas Libya is one of 53 Muslim states. With another two Muslim states-in-waiting eager to join the UN: Fatahstan in the Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria, and Hamasstan in the Gaza Strip.

It’s important to take people at their word. Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama and the righteous folks at HRW mean it when they declare their undying support for Libyans suffering 3 weeks of rocket and mortar attacks – almost 100 such missiles by all accounts. And they mean it equally fervently when they have nothing to say about Israelis suffering eight years of attacks with identical rockets and mortars – 12,000 missiles thus far.

Here’s someone else to take at their word. Here’s what the Fatah and Hamas Palestinian Arabs – they’re the ones who want to create Muslim states numbers 54 and 55 in Judea/Samaria and Gaza respectively – have to say about their intended Judenrein ethnically cleansed states of Palestine 2 and Palestine 3 (Palestine 1 has been in existence since 1922, known first as Transjordan, then renamed Jordan in 1950. Seventy percent (70%) of Jordan’s population is Palestinian Arab). Their aim is to eradicate and replace the entire state of Israel. The translation comes courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Note that this is children’s TV. It is no wonder that children growing up on this diet feel not only encouraged but positively commanded to kill three-month old babies asleep in their cots for the crime of being Jewish.

In the meantime, while you were watching the short clip above, another rocket fired by the Hamas government in Gaza landed among civilians in Israel. The thunder with which it exploded in civilian Israeli territory was matched only by the thunderous silence of David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, Barack Hussein Obama and Human Rights Watch.

For day by day, month by month, year by year documentation of all the human rights abuses of the Gaza Arabs via their mass indiscriminate bombing campaign against Israel’s Jews, read here. Now match this list with the list of protests by British, French and US governments over the years, and campaigns by HRW to draw attention to this documented human rights disgrace.

A word of caution: you’ll have to search hard to find evidence of these EU, US and HRW protests. Very hard indeed. Because they don’t exist.