Back and Next - Back and NextRise against Holocaust - President Jammeh
Monday, January 5, 2009
In his New Year message, aired on the eve of January 1st by Gambia Radio & Television Services (GRTS), Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, president of the Republic of The Gambia, resolutely denounced Israel's killing of unarmed civilians in escalating Gaza conflict.
The Gambian leader indicated that Palestinians are victims of a brutal and inhuman occupying power that is bent on wiping them out, while the whole world is watching with indifference."The entire civilized members of the human race must rise against this Holocaust that has been unleased on the helpless Palestinians, whose lands, human dignity and right to peaceful and dignified existence in their own country, are being blatantly violated with impunity, by a country that the whole world went to war for between 1939-1945 to free their citizens from Nazi Germany and other parts of the West," he stated.
He then went on to say that history is repeating itself, as the Israelis are today the principal perpetrators of the same Genocide/Holocaust against the people of Palestine."All that we hear from the West and other quarters is that Israel has a right to defend itself against attack! That Hamas is to be blamed for the Israeli murderous campaign against the people of Palestine.
Why didn't the principle of the right to self-defence apply to the Russian-Georgia conflict?" he ironically poisited. Denouncing what can be described as ‘’Western hypocrisy', he recalled that during the Russian-Georgia crisis the West was quick to intervene in that conflict and the UN Security Council was sitting almost daily to find an urgent solution to end that conflict."May be, he emphasised,"because the people that were dyning are white and Christian and so the conflict must be stopped."
While Tsahal has started its invasion of Gaza, human conscience continues to be hit by the double standard prevailing in international affairs. The Israeli eagerness to destroy Palestine constitutes a clear indication of the resurgence of Zionism in modern days.
The Gambian leader indicated that Palestinians are victims of a brutal and inhuman occupying power that is bent on wiping them out, while the whole world is watching with indifference."The entire civilized members of the human race must rise against this Holocaust that has been unleased on the helpless Palestinians, whose lands, human dignity and right to peaceful and dignified existence in their own country, are being blatantly violated with impunity, by a country that the whole world went to war for between 1939-1945 to free their citizens from Nazi Germany and other parts of the West," he stated.
He then went on to say that history is repeating itself, as the Israelis are today the principal perpetrators of the same Genocide/Holocaust against the people of Palestine."All that we hear from the West and other quarters is that Israel has a right to defend itself against attack! That Hamas is to be blamed for the Israeli murderous campaign against the people of Palestine.
Why didn't the principle of the right to self-defence apply to the Russian-Georgia conflict?" he ironically poisited. Denouncing what can be described as ‘’Western hypocrisy', he recalled that during the Russian-Georgia crisis the West was quick to intervene in that conflict and the UN Security Council was sitting almost daily to find an urgent solution to end that conflict."May be, he emphasised,"because the people that were dyning are white and Christian and so the conflict must be stopped."
While Tsahal has started its invasion of Gaza, human conscience continues to be hit by the double standard prevailing in international affairs. The Israeli eagerness to destroy Palestine constitutes a clear indication of the resurgence of Zionism in modern days.
Author: by Abdoulie John
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