Thursday, August 03, 2006
OPPONENTS OF JEWISH BOMBING WERE THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS OF NATO BOMBING
I am pleased to have had this letter, comparing Israel's war with NATO's in the Herald today. I suspect that its publication may owe something to the PS which I am leaving in. I hope you will allow me to bask in my fame of the moment before putting up the 2 unpublished letters tomorrow. To be fair to the Herald they did not edit anything out of the letter & it is very critical of the media. In fact they actually separated out the 3 sentences which origianlly made up 1 paragraph into 3 separate paragraphs thus making it considerably better & hard hitting.
May I commend Chris Walker on his amusing letter about the hypocrisy of present condemnations of Israel following our flying bombs to Saddam Hussein, back when he was our friendly "strong leader" (like Pakistan's now) & the remarkable failure of the media to report it?
May I also remind you that it is only a few years since planes were taking off from Britain to deliver bombs, including cluster bombs to Yugoslav cities & indeed hospitals, without the inconvenience of landing?
This was done not to oppose terrorism but to support a KLA whom the US government had said were terrorists & according to Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, were engaged in genocide.
It is noticeable that many politicians (Jack Straw, Ming Campbell, Clare Short, Nicol Stephen etc.) who are loudest in calling the Jews self defence a "war crime" were among the most enthusiastic supporters of bombing civilians then. The remarkable failure of our media to accuse the governments involved then of war crimes or to report the subsequent non-existence of the mass graves, on which that war was sold, or the subsequent genocide carried out under NATO rule should be a matter of shame.
Yours Faithfully
Neil Craig
PS This will be the 3rd letter I have sent you in a week. Let us hope this one meets the Herald's exacting literary standards.
