All entries for Sunday 23 March 2008
March 23, 2008
Scary Ceasefires, Scary Cheney and Scary Vehicles
It’s a busy few days at the moment, not least for Dick Cheney, who has spent the week moaning to dictators about how awful dictators are, and letting Israel know that they won’t have to do anything they don’t want to.
Meanwhile the Israeli government is attempting to deny that they have been offered a ceasefire by Hamas , despite the fact that Hamas has repeatedly offered such a ceasefire in public. The government has also insisted that “our position is that if they don’t shoot at us from Gaza, we won’t shoot back”, which must strike Hamas as curious when it was repeated Israeli shelling of the West Bank in early 2006 which caused Hamas to abandon the 18-month unilateral ceasefire it had imposed upon itself.
And in a supreme act of generosity, Israel has allowed Russia to sell the Palestinians cars. They would have had machine guns on them, but Israel was scared that they might get used. Which is fair enough, but I can’t see Britain adopting the same policies on its arms sales to Israel . The strong do as they will, the weak suffer as they must.
Christopher Rossdale
23 Mar 2008 11:35
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Tags: Arms Trade Dick Cheney Hamas Israel And Palestine Peace Process
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