Open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon - War crimes tribunal to try Israeli politicians

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Open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

By Angie Tibbs

9 February 2009

Dear Mr Secretary-General,

Angie Tibbs asks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to explain the double
standards that allow him to condemn the Palestinians’ legally-enshrined
right to self-defence while delivering a mild slap on the wrist to
Israel for its war crimes in Gaza.

The United Nations, the world's preeminent law-making body, together
with its Charter, provides the basis for laws and principles; therefore,
people of conscience everywhere look to the UN with hope for upholding
its Charter and its pledge to end the scourge of war. As the
secretary-general, you, sir, are expected to at least speak words that
honour this Charter and its principles.

However, while people of good conscience world-wide are expressing
revulsion at Israel's terrorist attack on the defenceless in Gaza, you
are already seeking to minimize war crimes of monumental proportions
while echoing the disinformation of Israel and its supporters.

For instance, on 16 January 2009 the headlines read: "Ban urges
unilateral ceasefire in Gaza conflict; meets with Palestine leaders".

You did not meet with "Palestinian leaders", sir. Palestinian leaders
are either detained in Israeli or West Bank prisons, murdered by Israeli
assassins, or in Gaza, where the world, in its sick attempts to placate
Israel, refused to allow them to govern the people who elected them.

You met with traitors, the Palestinian Authority, whose party, Fatah,
decisively lost the January 2006 election, yet they refused to go
quietly or to work with the people's representatives. And here you are
giving credence to Judas Abbas and his sick collusion with the killers
of the Palestinian people, declaring with unbridled audacity, that you
"underscore your full support for President Abbas's leadership".

On 21 January 2009, you urge all Palestinians to "work to restore one
Palestinian government within the framework of the legitimate
Palestinian Authority under President Abbas."

Not so fast, sir. Tell me how do you determine that a party which lost
an internationally-monitored election is the legitimate authority?

And since his term as president was to officially end on 9 January 2009,
continuing to refer to Abbas as "president" is misleading.

Hamas won 76 of 132 seats in the Palestinian Parliament, Fatah, a mere
43. The people had spoken. Instead of accepting the overwhelming victory
of Hamas and urging the nations of the world to abide by the election
results, Abbas and friends created one obstacle after another to prevent
Hamas from rightfully assuming power. In fact, Abbas, to his everlasting
shame, became a pathetic "yes man" for Israel and the United States, and
his people and their wishes be damned.

The people of occupied Palestine, sickened by Fatah's corruption,
exercised their democratic right (or so they thought!) and voted for
Hamas. However, much of the world cravenly followed Israeli dictates and
refused to recognize Hamas and to work with the legitimately elected
party in its efforts to bring about positive change in the West Bank and
Gaza. The UN, itself, sir, sat idly by while Gaza became the world's
largest concentration camp, strangled to the point of starvation and
economic ruin by a brutal, unrelenting occupier.

On 21 January 2009, you stated that the people of Gaza "were caught
throughout this crisis between Hamas's unacceptable and irresponsible
actions and Israel's blockade and use of excessive and disproportionate
military force”.

So, you consider defending one's people and what's left of their
homeland as "unacceptable and irresponsible", do you?

In just the past three years, Israeli forces have killed many hundreds
of people in Gaza. Hundreds more died because Israel wouldn't allow them
to leave Gaza to receive medical care. And on 27 December 2008, when
Israeli forces began their long-planned assault on Gaza and its people,
what protection did 1.5 million people have?

Did you see any F-16 bombers piloted by members of the military wing of
Hamas? Did you see them launching missiles aimed at vapourizing their
defenceless targets? Did you see them driving tanks? Using white
phosphorous and other banned, or experimental weapons? Hell, not!

What you and the world saw was a sophisticated assortment of weapons
being unleashed with merciless abandon on people whose only means of
defence were guns and homemade projectiles. What's wrong with this
picture, sir?

"Use of excessive and disproportionate military force," you say? Oh, it
was a lot more than that, sir, and while you echo the usual catch phrase
of the UN and gutless world leaders in describing the premeditated
slaughter of human beings in occupied Palestine, you seem to have
forgotten that, under international laws and Conventions, the
Palestinian people have every right to protect themselves against the
racist, genocidal killers who have been murdering them with impunity for
over 60 years.

On 20 January 2009, you visited Sderot, in the company of war criminal
Ehud Olmert, and to the astonishment of people of good conscience
everywhere, you classified "Palestinian militants' projectiles as
indiscriminate weapons and Hamas attacks are violations of basic
humanitarian law", going on to describe Hamas's rocket fire against
Israel as "appalling and unacceptable".

"Appalling and unacceptable," sir? First of all, it might behoove you
to remember that Sderot is built on the ashes of the ethnically cleansed
Palestinian town of Naid, whose inhabitants were forced from their homes
and lands by Jewish terrorists in 1948. That is appalling, and yet you
failed to mention it. Do you feel, sir, that ethnic cleansing (or
slow-motion genocide as many call it) becomes acceptable with the
passage of time?

Did you suggest to Olmert that Israel remove its inhabitants from Sderot
and return it to its rightful owners? I don't think so.

Before you start prattling about "violations of basic humanitarian law",
I suggest you look at the never-ending Israeli attacks on the people of
Gaza and, in fact, all of occupied Palestine. Men, women, children.
Israel does not differentiate. There are no bomb shelters in Gaza, are
there, sir? There are no warning signals to announce another deadly bomb
or missile attack.

And there are no "homemade projectiles" landing in Gaza to cause you to
be "appalled", are there, sir? Nothing so rudimentary for Israel with
its latest in war toys – bombs, missiles, tanks, white phosphorous, and
who knows what experimental weapons there are in its arsenal. You don't
have a problem with this? Or are you attempting to equate homemade
rockets with Israel's weaponry?

I'm curious, sir. If you consider homemade rockets falling, for the most
part, harmlessly into Sderot as "appalling and unacceptable" and
"violations of basic humanitarian law", describe for us, please, how you
view the brutal 60-year occupation of someone else's homeland, with
ongoing deadly terror attacks?

If you want examples of "violations of basic humanitarian law", how
about the Israeli war crimes in refusing the Palestinian people the
right to exist, to move freely and safely in their own land, to live,
work and play, and to enjoy the basic human, civil, social and economic
rights that I have, that you have?

On 21 January 2009, you stated: "I have condemned from the outbreak of
this conflict the excessive use of force by the Israeli forces in Gaza.
I view the rocket attacks into Israel as completely unacceptable".

Interesting that the Israeli actions are only "condemned" whereas the
rocket attacks are "completely unacceptable". In other words, you do not
trample on the often blurted "Israeli right to defend itself" (i.e. the
aggressor's right to protect itself from retaliation), so you couldn't
say the excessive force was "completely unacceptable", could you?

Excessive force? Is that what you call three weeks of continual
bombardment of over a million people with nowhere to go, no protection,
no one to help them? I call it a premeditated massacre, sir.

You say you condemned the "the excessive use of force by Israeli forces
in Gaza". Are you suggesting that force against the Palestinian people
is permissible so long as it is not "excessive"? Is that what you are
telling us? That you support the cold-blooded murder of Palestinians but
not their right to retaliate with what minimal "weapons" they have?

That, sir, is what is completely "unacceptable".

What has the UN and its Security Council ever done to protect the
Palestinian people against continual Israeli aggression? Show me a
single instance in UN history where action was taken to protect them
from the bombs and tanks and missiles of Israeli terrorists.

Yes, sir. Terrorists. Israel and its supporters love tossing that word
about, insisting, for example, that Hizbollah and Hamas are "terrorist"
organizations. However, over the past 60 years, and during the most
recent attack on Gaza, the world has seen Israeli terror in all its
horrific ugliness, and we will never forget. Yet, in those 60-plus
years, the UN Security Council has never taken decisive action with
respect to Israeli war crimes. Oh, there have been numerous resolutions,
yes, but all have been ignored by Israel and never enforced by the UN
Security Council. How is this inaction justified?

On 20 January 2009, you "visited the war-shattered Gaza Strip to
demonstrate solidarity with the population and assure them of the full
support of the United Nations and the international community".

Excuse me, sir, but where were you and "the international community" for
the past three years while the people of Gaza were being kept on a
Zionist-imposed diet in the world's largest concentration camp? Why did
you wait until over 1300 of them were slaughtered in three weeks? What
did the UN Security Council do? What did the "international community"
(with the praiseworthy exceptions of Iran, Malaysia, Turkey and a few
others) do? Nothing.

Instead of supporting the Palestinian people and their choice of
government, the "international community", which likes to blather on
about "democracy", chooses to ignore the results of the most democratic
elections held in the region, and showed its hypocrisy by adhering to
the Israeli line and shunning a people and its government. Blackmail at
its most repugnant.

What did you do about that, sir? What did you do to remove this criminal
siege? You and your Security Council allowed this monstrous crime to
continue for three years. Where were the sanctions, the enforced
resolutions? The UN Security Council, obviously choosing under pressure
from the US and UK which nations it imposes sanctions against, continued
to ignore Israeli atrocities, and for crimes against the Palestinian
people there has been nothing. How is that inaction justified?

What kind of "support" do you have for the people of Gaza now, sir?
Assistance if they denounce their elected officials? The "international
community" and the UN Security Council never gave a damn about
Palestinian people being tortured, killed and displaced in their
homeland. Their cries for help have gone unheeded for over 60 years. Do
you feel enough have been slaughtered now? Do you feel the devastation
this time is sufficient? Is that it?

Israel never left Gaza, sir. Oh, there were great made-for-television
moments when the illegal squatters were "removed", but the terrorizing
of a defenceless people continued with nightly incursions;
assassinations of resistance fighters and others; murders of women,
children, the elderly; destruction of homes; curtailment of all rights
and freedoms.

And you have the unmitigated gall to refer to the actions of Hamas as
"unacceptable and irresponsible actions"?

It might well surprise you, sir, that the Palestinian people have every
right to defend themselves against ongoing Israeli terrorism. Yet for
over 60 years they have been left on their own, struggling valiantly to
hang on to their lives, their homes, their lands. No "world leader" has
ever declared that the people of occupied Palestine have a right to
defend themselves or that they have a right to exist. Why not?

The crimes committed by Israel since its inception, not only against the
Palestinian people, but the Lebanese, and all others in the region, are
monumental, but this nation, with more sadistic war criminals than any
other on earth, continues to kill and destroy without even a smartly
delivered slap to the wrist. Terrorism with impunity. How reprehensible
is that?

So, Mr Secretary-General of the UN, when is the UN Security Council
going to set up a war crimes tribunal to try Israeli politicians,
soldiers, rabbis and all others responsible for the war crimes and
crimes against humanity they committed against the people of Gaza?

When is the UN Security Council going to revoke Israel's membership of
the UN for failing to honour its terms of admittance?

When is the UN Security Council going to demand that Israel make
complete reparation to the people of Gaza for this monstrous act of
death and destruction? Or will others, as per the norm, have to fix what
this brutal regime has destroyed while it spends the billions it
receives yearly from US taxpayers on more weapons?

Or will this be another Jenin? Another South Lebanon? Another Qana?

This time, sir, this war crime against Gaza and its people will not be
swept under the proverbial rug. The good people of the world have seen
evil and have recoiled in revulsion. The good people of the world have
heard the never-ending litany of outlandish Israeli propaganda. The
world is waiting, and watching, and listening. The UN, with its
credibility at a minimum, cannot remain silent. People of good
conscience will not, cannot, and must not allow it.

Sincerely,

Angie Tibbs

Angie Tibbs is a writer/activist living in Canada. She can be reached at
angie4...@nl.rogers.com

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