** FATHER FRANK’S RANTS Rant Number 767 bis PITY THE LITTLE CHILDREN

THE SUFFERINGS OF INNOCENT KIDS IN SYRIA MOVE THE HARDEST HEARTS BUT IT IS DESPICABLE WHEN USED AS A PRETEXT FOR WAR
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Harrowing to see Syrian little children suffering from chemical attacks. It moves you, it angers you, it makes you want to punish the criminals responsible but…beware! It can also be propaganda device. During WWI the Allies swore that the German Army in occupied Belgium systematically cut off the hands of teenage boys and other atrocities. ‘The rape of Belgium’, they screamed. It was a lie. Made fouler by the fact that Belgian colonialists in the Congo had mutilated the hands and feet of African children. King Leopold II, a relative of Queen Victoria, personally owned the Congo. He vastly enriched himself brutally exploiting that unhappy country. Leopold’s slave drivers drenched the land in the blood of the Africans. Writer Mark Twain described those horrors in the chilling Soliloquies of King Leopold. It even shocked British imperialist Cecil Rhodes: ‘That man is a devil, I tell you, a devil!’ Rhodes aptly termed the inhuman monarch. But the real story of innocent African
children butchered and brutalised by Belgian colonialists was of no interest to the Allies. They preferred and spread the fake news of German crimes.

When it comes to the little ones, how many Indian children starved to death in the 1943 Bengal famine, under Britain’s ‘benign’ colonial rule? Over 2 million people died, in Bengal alone – surely many were kids. PM Winston Churchill denied them access to international aid. The generous heart of the man later awarded the title of ‘the greatest Briton’. The same Churchill who in 1919 ordered chemical attacks on Russian revolutionary villages!

Ancient tales, of no relevance today? Consider the figure of half million Iraqi children’s deaths, owing to the West’s crippling economic sanctions. US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright was President Clinton’s appointment, women-abusing Bill prided himself on having the first female to the job. (Also the first dwarf, given her vertically-challenged physique.) When Albright was confronted with that horrendous charge on TV, she made no attempt to deny it. Instead, her candid reply was that the little Arab ones’ lives were a price ‘worth it’. The graceless, decrepit creature is still alive, fulminating against ‘rising fascism’ and Trump. Fascism eh? Pretty rich, coming from a politician who basked in the demise of half-million innocent kids!

On FB my friend Leo Cecchini, a former US diplomat, asks why Bashar Assad should have used chemical weapons when his side ‘has already won the war against the rebels. It just doesn’t make sense’. He observes how the Russian Foreign Minister has fingered the rebels: they did it! That would make sense. The rebels – including jihadi terrorists guilty of horrendous crimes against Christians and other minorities - stand to gain the most from kneejerk international reactions. It was in the rebels’ interest to launch the chemical attack. To lure foolish Western leaders to fight on their side. Will Trump take leave of his senses and bomb Assad? Puzzling, given that one of his electoral pledges was to rein back America from military interventions abroad. Why the U-turn? Sheer cussedness? Trump speaks of ‘Animal Assad’. Should he fall into rebels’ trap, would he become ‘Donkey Donald’?
Or could it be a matter of family influence? Don’t mean lovely wife Melania but Trump’s creepy daughter Ivanka and her creepier husband, Jared Kushner, with their links to Israel. Does that conjure up another likely scenario? Many times has Israel bombed Syria. The latest missile strike hit the T-4 airfield near Homs, close to the ancient site of Palmira, once ruined by the ISIS barbarians. The strikes evince sinister Israeli plans, not simply military but strategic and geopolitical. The Zionist state seeks to profit from the Syrian civil war and destroy for good the Syrian state, to consolidate its hold over the illegally occupied Golan Heights. Further, as President Assad gave the Palestinians some degree of support…geddit? Above all, PM Netanyahu wants to castrate the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The only Arab fighting force that has given Israel’s Army a bloody nose. With Hezbollah out of the way, Israel might feel free to push the beleaguered people of Gaza
into Northern Sinai, out of the way. Iran will then be next to be targeted. With Saudi-Wahhabi support. La Samaha Allah!

Children and Israel, oh, yes. How many Arab children are slain by Israelis? According to the Palestinian Ministry of Information in Ramallah, by 2013 the Israelis killed 1518 Palestinians kids. Over 6000 were injured. The figures would be higher by now. In 2016 alone 32 children were shot. There are children in prison where they are often tortured. Do you hear about these statistics? Independent media mention them occasionally but they never get the kind of obsessive, magnified attention the Douma victims got. Israeli crimes against children and other civilians are routinely ignored or underplayed. Are Palestinians than a non-people? Doesn’t their little ones’ blood count?

Theresa May, that parody of a leader, is urged to join the nightmare armed coalition against Syria. ‘Don’t let the French steal the act!’ Tory warmongers spur her. The French! Meaning pipsqueak, jumped-up technocrat Macron and his gang. Itching to emulate ex-President Sarkozy’s exploits. (How many Algerian children died during the French colonial war there, I wonder?) Sarkozy, the crook being investigated for taking bribes from Libya’s Gaddafi, whose country he later helped to devastate. But Theresa isn’t egged on by Tories alone. Tony Blair too calls for British intervention in Syria. Like Dracula, the aging man’s bloodlust is insatiable. Had he a conscience, it would tell him to discourage another disastrous adventure like the invasion of Iraq. But, no, Tony keeps at it, regardless of the deluge of evils that war unleashes on the innocent. There is something frightening about a warped mind like that.

A US-led war on Syria looms. Verily, this is the hour of the scoundrels and the powers of darkness.

Revd Frank Julian Gelli

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