It was to be expected. Soon after Londoners came out of their shock, there were voices blaming Israel for what had just happened to them.
Maybe somebody out there can explain to me what is the connection? Would a wacko Pakistani blow himself up because he can't witness the suffering of the Palestinians at the hand of the Zionist enemy anymore? I didn't think so...
What we see here is the bill for Saddam Hussein's early retirement and the removal of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. US and British forces invaded both places for their own national interest, not to protect Israel - God forbid.
Why then does every announcement of Al Qaeda et al. mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Simply in order to erode public support for Israel in Europe and to increase public support among Muslims world-wide for their useless slaughter of innocent civilians anywhere, anytime.
Get it people, Israel is nothing but a "shitty little country" (to speak with Daniel Bernard, the French ambassador to the UK), and those few square miles of desert inhabited by some 6 million people can not possibly be responsible for the negative bias of 1.5 billion Muslims towards the Western World.
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those few square miles of desert inhabited by some 6 million people can not possibly be responsible for the negative bias of 1.5 billion Muslims towards the Western World.
It is fair to say that Israel is one important factor of several. The ethnic cleansing of a people from their land is no small matter, whether directly (in earlier days) or indirectly (the settlements of the last 60 years).
The invasion of Iraq was conceived by people with close ties to Israel (Feith, Perle, etc.) and enjoyed the support of AIPAC and other powerful Israeli-oriented lobby groups. So again, Israel was indeed a contributing factor, along with America's larger interest in regional resources.
So yes, it is foolish to blame everything on Israel. At the same time, it is foolish to think that Israel is some passive, innocent scapegoat, when it's really the last obvious European colonial enterprise.
Wouldn't it have been much more fair for Germany to surrender part of its land to create a homeland for the Zionists?
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