March 29,2006

Joint Statement Exhibits Fundamental Racism

Ron Saba, Montreal Planet Magazine

(Montreal, March 29, 2006)  There will never be a clearer illustration of the fundamental racism which underpins our government's policy on Palestine than the issuance today of the joint statement.  This announcement comes exactly one day after Israel elected a government which has pledged to draw its own (illegal) borders deep into Palestine in total contravention of international law, UN resolutions, the so-called "roadmap" and long standing Canadian policy.

An Israeli regime which for many years denied the very EXISTENCE of the Palestinian people and still refuses to recognize Palestine and the inalienable right of return of ethnically cleansed refugees,  recognition which was demanded by the UN over one half century ago as a prerequiisite for UN recognition of Israel.  A murderous regime which is the fifth largest military in the world, with undeclared nuclear weapons, and which has been accused by every major human rights group of crimes against humanity committed on a civilian population imprisoned in ghettos.  A regime which was the only one in the world to officially endorse torture.

However to our government, facts, rights and international law do not matter.   In fact when actions and policies are driven by ideologies and myths, nothing matters.

The basis of our government's position is a repugnant attitude of racial superiority of the white settlers and a demonization of the darker natives.  As in the case of every other colonial enterprise of dispossesion and annilation, the natives are viewed as "savages" and the white settlers are glorified as the innocent crusaders who can do no wrong and need the backing of the other "good" white people.

This fundamental racism is also on display in the reporting on the mid-east by Canada's corporate media.  Fifty years of genocidal violence perpetrated by a white settler regime armed by the West  is "justified".  The ethnically cleansed and mudered darker natives along with their 500 destoyed villages don't even warrant mention on the back pages.  Natives have always been"expendable" and by definition "invisible".  By the white man's definition, retaliation by oppressed natives is savage "terrorism" and in the eyes of the media, genetically linked to skin colour.  To wit the "civilized" white west called Nelson Mandela and his ANC a terrorist organization.

With the issuance of its odious joint statement, I can only conclude that that my government also views this Canadian citizen as racially inferior to other more "white" Canadian citizens.

It's good to know how a government views its subjects.



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