Jammeh Frowns at Israel

by PK Jarju

As the international community continue to keep a tight lip over the Israeli invasion of Gaza which has killed hundreds and injured thousands more, Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has called on "civilised members of the human race to rise up against what he described as a holocaust" that is being unleashed on helpless Palestinians.

In his televised New Year's message, Mr Jammeh said Palestinian 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.

"Today, they are the principal perpetrators of the same genocide/holocaust against the people of Palestine on Palestinian soil; and 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 all the Israeli murderous campaign against the people of Palestine. Why didn't the principle of the right to self defence apply to the Russian-Georgian Conflict? Why was the West 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, because the people that were dying are White and Christian and so the conflict must be stopped.

"Today, nobody is making any serious effort to stop Israel from mass slaughter of Palestinians because they are Muslims and not European or White. Where there are so-called western civil societies and the so-called human rights activists/campaigners?," Mr Jammeh asked.

Mr Jammeh who is an outspoken critic of Israel, said Palestinians have the same human value and lives as the Georgians that the entire West stood up to save and that the world will be a very dangerous and violent place if such blatant barbaric and genocidal behaviour is condoned by the world community.

While calling on Gambians to pray for their brothers and sisters in Palestine who are "victims of a brutal and inhuman occupying power that is bent on wiping them out, whilst the whole world is watching with indifference", Mr Jammeh expressed his wish and prayers that the Almighty Allah will intervene and save humanity from the "scourge of murderous racist powers" that pride themselves by atrocious invasions of other countries in the name of democracy, pillaging, looting and destroying lives and plundering their properties with impunity.

He also prayed to Allah the Almighty to "destroy all these evil forces" and let decent and civilised humanity live in peace and love, free from such satanic beings.