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Toulouse and hypocrisy


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The events in Toulouse over the past few days are truly shocking and deserve the condemnation of the whole world. It is also shocking and sickening to witness the hypocrisy of the western media, in the reporting of this event, and also the behaviour of western politicians in their reaction to the events. The sight of Nicolas Sarkozy complete with serious expression at the scene and later at the airport as the bodies were flown back to Israel was nauseating. Today, we have the news that Baroness Ashton is being urged to resign as EU High Representative by Israel's defence minister, because of her remarks made highlighting various tragedies taking the lives of children when she addressed a Palestinian refugee youth conference in Brussels. She has today qualified her comments with “"At yesterday's event I drew no parallel whatsoever between this tragedy and events elsewhere in the Middle East." Back tracking to pacify Israel is both dishonourable and hypocritical.
The undeniable fact remains that there are many parallels between the events in Toulouse and the almost daily events in Gaza. The killing of children is the same whether the act is carried out by an unbalanced individual or a flight of Israeli warplanes. What is truly despicable is the way in which the media completely ignores what happens in Gaza and the occupied territories every day, to fill their reports with emotive rhetoric emphasising that the victims were Jewish, and only mentioning in passing the other victims killed in three previous attacks. Even the Pope sitting in his ivory Palace at the Vatican has joined the list of contributors. (The Vatican was of course strangely silent during the excesses of Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's) Politicians too, are indulging in the grossest form of hypocrisy with their apparent indifference towards Palestinians. I have argued previously that the world seems to have a collective guilty conscience in respect of Israel. Un reported events in the media and a stony silence from politicians. They probably have never even heard of Umm Muhammad Asilah (48) .This is part of her story
”Umm Muhammad Asilah (48) never imagined that Israeli airstrikes would take yet another one of her sons. This time, it was her 12-year-old son Ayoub’s turn to join his two brothers who were killed after Israeli war planes bombed the surroundings of the Asilah family house east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza strip.”
Now Mr Sarkozy, Mrs Clinton, Mr Hague, BBC News 24, SKY TV News, Benyamin Netanyahu and the rest of the civilised world, what is the difference?

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