{"id":10704,"date":"2011-03-14T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2011-03-10T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:04:07","slug":"what-about-a-no-fly-zone-for-the-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/03\/what-about-a-no-fly-zone-for-the-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"What about a No Fly Zone for the Palestinians?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEven the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza Strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It’s the same thing here\u201d <\/em>Muammar Gaddafi (France 24)<\/p>\n

In the last few days the\u00a0UN have\u00a0paved the way for a no-fly zone in Libya.<\/p>\n

David Cameron and Barack Obama\u00a0have\u00a0also agreed to draw up “the full spectrum” of military responses to the crisis in Libya.<\/p>\n

British PM David Cameron outlined his conversation with Obama, saying “We have got to prepare for what we might have to do if he [Gaddafi] goes on brutalising his own people\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I find myself\u00a0overwhelmed\u00a0by Cameron’s humanist stand —\u00a0it seems he really cares about the Libyan people.<\/p>\n

And yet, I am left puzzled,\u00a0for I have never\u00a0observed Cameron, Obama or the UN being so touched in the same manner\u00a0by the death of Palestinian civilians, who are also butchered on a daily basis\u00a0by Israeli air raids. As it seems, in the quote above, Muammar Gaddafi performs far more integrity than Cameron, Obama and the UN. Gaddafi clearly manages to question the Western moralist agenda. If the UN is so enthusiastic to bomb Libya, shouldn\u2019t it really start with Israel?<\/p>\n

I would contend that for a moral interventional argument to be justifiable, it must be primarily grounded on moral integrity.<\/p>\n

If America and Britain are, indeed, \u2018morally driven\u2019 why do they fail to protect the people of Palestine?\u00a0Why do they allow Israeli airplanes\u00a0decorated with Jewish symbols to drop bombs in Gaza? Is it because Israeli bombs are kosher<\/em> somehow?<\/p>\n

But\u00a0I guess that we already know the answers —\u00a0\u00a0First, they want the Libyan oil and\u00a0 moral intervention is just a pretext for another oil war . Second, the American and the\u00a0British governments are maintained financially by notorious Zionist lobbies: In America it is AIPAC, and in Britain it is the CFI.\u00a0 It becomes clear that if we want our leaders to save this planet or at least to perform any kind of ethical integrity, Jewish lobbies must be confronted.<\/p>\n

I’d like to suggest to Cameron and Obama that if they behaved morally for a change and imposed an immediate no fly zone on Israel\u00a0they\u00a0could contribute significantly\u00a0to\u00a0resolving one of\u00a0the most dangerous conflicts in the world today.<\/p>\n

Such an act would\u00a0also contribute to solving the current energy crisis —\u00a0and most significantly, peace might actually\u00a0prevail.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 gilad.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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I would contend that for a moral interventional argument to be justifiable, it must be primarily grounded on moral integrity. If America and Britain are, indeed, \u2018morally driven\u2019 why do they fail to protect the people of Palestine? Why do they allow Israeli airplanes decorated with Jewish symbols to drop bombs in Gaza? Is it because Israeli bombs are kosher somehow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}