 selected writing Letters to British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Dear Mr Blair, Since July 12th, Israel has flown 3000 air sorties into Lebanon and has decimated the civilian infrastructure in the name of "fighting terrorism". The BBC is currently showing bombing of the south of Lebanon, with bodies everywhere, rows of coffins, 100 people brought to one hospital, mass graves, and many, many refugees. Mr Blair, watching you and half of the Labour MPs in Parliament stand by and refuse to call for a ceasefire -- while Israel massacres innocent civilians and creates hundreds of thousands of new refugees -- is one of the most profoundly ugly and utterly amoral things I have ever had to watch a British Prime Minister do. Prior to that, the most profoundly ugly and utterly amoral thing I have ever had to watch a British Prime Minister do took place two weeks ago, when you stood by and did nothing as Israel did exactly the same thing in Gaza. You have not just failed your voters and cast a stain on the British people as a whole, you have negated humanity itself. Pick up the phone. Call Olmert. Tell him to stop. And then distance yourself and your country from this genocidal Middle Eastern reincarnation of Apartheid that calls itself "Israel". Nigel Parry New York, NY 28 June 2006 Dear Mr. Blair, Watching you standing next to President Bush and talking about the need for a UN resolution, on what you described -- with a squid-like squirt of passive tense -- as the Lebanese "tragedy", makes me want to cry. An Arab friend, watching leaders such as yourself do nothing as Israel spent an entire month massacring Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in the name of "fighting terrorism", recently told me the following: "I understand now how the Holocaust could have happened." A UN resolution is President Bush's clever device to buy Israel time to finish destroying two countries. Perhaps you and he can go and collect it, like Olympic medal winners, on top of the podium of dead bodies you have both helped Israel to build. There are no words to adequately describe what you have failed to do, although Edmund Burke gets close: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." What you have undoubtedly achieved is the guarantee of global insecurity for decades to come. Sincerely, Nigel Parry New York, NY |
