"BY ANY MEASURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, BLAIR IS A PRIMA FACIE WAR CRIMINAL"

(AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THIS WAR CRAZY CLIQUE - HR - links below)

by John Pilger

August 16, 2006 - The New Statesman.

If the alleged plot to attack airliners flying from London is true* - remember the lies that led to the invasion of Iraq, and to the raid on a "terrorist cell" in east London - then one person ultimately is to blame, as he was on 7 July last year.* They were Blair's bombs then; who doesn't believe that 52 Londoners would be alive today had the Prime Minister refused to join Bush in his piratical attack on Iraq? A parliamentary committee has said as much, as have MI5, the Foreign Office, Chatham House and the polls.

A senior Metropolitan Police officer, Paul Stephenson, claims the Heathrow plot "was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale". The most reliable independent surveys put civilian deaths in Iraq, as a result of the invasion by Bush and Blair, above 100,000. The difference between the Heathrow scare and Iraq is that mass murder on an unimaginable scale has actually happened in Iraq.

BLAIR IS A MAJOR PRIMA FACIE WAR CRIMINAL

By any measure of international law, from Nuremberg to the Geneva accords, Blair is a major prima facie war criminal. The charges against him grow. The latest is his collusion with the Israeli state in its deliberate, criminal attacks on civilians. While Lebanese children were being buried beneath Israeli bombs, he refused to condemn their killers or even to call on them to desist. That a ceasefire was negotiated owed nothing to him, except its disgraceful delay.

Not only is it clear that Blair knew about Israel's plans but he alluded approvingly to the ultimate goal: an attack on Iran. Read his neurotic speech in Los Angeles, in which he described an "arc of extremism", stretching from Hezbollah to Iran. He gave not a hint of the arc of injustice and lawlessness of Israel's occupation of Palestine and its devastation of Lebanon. Neither did he attempt to counter the bigotry now directed at all Arabs by the west and by the racist regime in Tel Aviv. His references to "values" are code for a crusade against Islam.

Blair's extremism, like Bush's, is rooted in the righteous violence of rampant Messianic power. It is completely at odds with modern, multi cultural, secular Britain. He shames this society. Not so much distrusted these days as reviled, he endangers and betrays us in his vassal's affair with the religious fanatic in Washington and the Biblo-ethnic cleansers in Israel.

Unlike him, the Israelis at least are honest. "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population," said Israel's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Half a century later, Ariel Sharon said, "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion . . . that there can be no Zionism, colonisation or Jewish state without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

The current prime minister, Ehud Olmert, told the US Congress: "I believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land [his emphasis]."

BLAIR HAS BACKED THIS BARBARISM ENTHUSIASTICALLY.

In 2001, the Israeli press disclosed that he had secretly given the "green light" to Sharon's bloody invasion of the West Bank, whose advance plans he was shown. Palestine, Iraq, Leba non - is it any wonder the attacks of 7 July and this month's Heathrow scare happened? The CIA calls this "blowback". On 12 August, the Guardian published an editorial ("The challenge for us all"), which waffled about how "a significant number of young people have been alienated from the [Muslim] culture", but spent not a word on how Blair's Middle East disaster was the source of their alienation. A polite pretence is always preferred in describing British policy, elevating "misguided" and "inappropriate" and suppressing criminal behaviour.

Go into Muslim areas and you will be struck by a fear reminiscent of the anti-Semitic nightmare of the Jews in the 1930s, and by an anger generated almost entirely by "a perceived double standard in the foreign policy of western governments", as the Home Office admits.

This is felt deeply by many young Asians who, far from being "alienated from their culture", believe they are defending it.

How much longer are we all prepared to put up with the threat to our security coming from Downing Street?

Or do we wait for the "unimaginable"?

JOHN PILGER

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FPF - RELATED:

* Fake air terror & Bank of England freezes assets of accused? - Url.:  http://sydney.indymedia.org/node/38208

* More of their stupid 'liquid explosives' fakes in their media today - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/roy8n

* BLAIR'S LONDON BOMBING - France closes borders: Minister: UK bombers earlier arrested - Url.:  http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/07-19-05/discussion.cgi.128.html

* Analysis - London blasts boost Bush and Blair - Url.:  http://onlinejournal.org/Commentary/070705Ruyssenaars/070705ruyssenaars.html

* European Union Bombed into Submission? - Url.: www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/ 07-13-05/discussion.cgi.69.html

* British bombs and the 'Zero option' - Url.:  http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/07-19-05/discussion.cgi.90.html

* NEWS FROM INDYMEDIA in LEBANON - BEIRUT - Url.:  http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/

* DEFINITION OF SEMITES: from The Collin’s English Dictionary -1984 - "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians (the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew.” - Palestinians and Lebanese are semites.

* PREPARING THE GENOCIDE FOR 'ERETZ ISRAEL' - 'A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the Realm' - The new Israeli ''Pentagon Papers'' - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/zksqh

* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza which 'they' are holocausting. - 6 minute video - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5

* The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Having practical experience of coups and the obscenity of war: seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!

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