It seems that many of those who wanted to ‘Save Darfur’ are now actually out there supporting Israel and its daily bombardment of Gaza’s civilian population with thousands of half-ton explosives, cluster bomblets, and White Phosphorus shells, many if not most, made in the USA! What a puzzle?
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is one of those notables since he’s been a long time Zionist and demander of increased US military aggression against Sudan, but the group of newly gung-ho genocide advocates against the Palestinians also includes Hillel, the largest Jewish student group around the world. They fairly recently made ‘Saving Darfur’ the major focus of their political work. Now they have returned to the ‘Saving the Jewish State’ theme by killing Palestinians which is their #1 cause once again. See their website for the position Hillel Endorses JCPA Support for Israel. Now check out their ‘Save Darfur’ campaign for calling for military intervention by principally the US and Britain into Africa. Never Forget. Save Darfur and never save Iraq, Afghanistan, or Somalia, let alone Gaza?
OK, let’s go on over to another US group advocating vocally to ‘Save Darfur’, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum down in Miami, Florida of all places. What are they up to? Just check on CONSCIENCE at their website to see if they have located any problems in the world today other than Darfur? Oops, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo, Gaza are all missing! Gaza civilians not a problem for them…. ??? Neither are Armenians, Native Americans, nor Black African slaves. What holocausts? I guess there was only one with maybe an add on of Darfur? I’m surprised, in fact. Well they are worried about the Chechens, too, it seems. Just to be fair…
There are many others out there who wanted to ‘Save Darfur’. Some of them are the local peace do-nothings at the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission here in Colorado Springs allied with United for Justice and Peace nationally, which has had many a member concerned about ‘Saving Darfur’. So much so that they actually held a rally or two to show their desire for more intervention by the US government. I remember seeing some of them in tears even.
Today I’m not sure where they have disappeared to? White phosphorus and Gaza just not their thing I guess? Neither is Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan, nor really even Iraq! Funny group of people. They never really seem to get it together to demonstrate for anything other than themselves? Always fundraising though. Got some money for their office people? Staff salaries are always important! They may or may not show up at the next rally against war? You never know with these folk?
What about the group Stop Genocide Now? What did you find other than their concern about Darfur? They claim to be the following…
‘Stop Genocide Now (SGN) is a grassroots community dedicated to working to protect populations in grave danger of violence, death and displacement resulting from genocide.’
Only Darfur seems to be where they have found this ‘population’ though. Go figure? ‘Genocide’ seems to be only in Darfur? That’s amazing!
OK, I’ll stop here. I think the reader has gotten the picture by now. ‘Save Darfur’ as a rallying point really is not about saving people that much by promoting peace in the civil wars of Sudan. There is another and rather well kept hidden agenda behind this campaign, and the fact that so many groups have a blind side about this hidden agenda they are supporting is quite telling.
For many of these folk, Darfur is on the back burner and blasting away at Gaza is primary. Don’t worry though, since they’ll all be back urging humanitarian intervention quite soon. Oh wait! Supporting the US-Israeli war on Palestinians is seen by many of these people as being humanitarian interventionism. Ain’t that right, Willy Pete? Where else will they go next?
“Because you have drowned others, you were drowned…” –Rabbi Hillel
The ‘Save Darfur’ movement was largely a hypocritical stunt, to give way for Western corporations over Chinese interests in the plundering of Sudanese natural resources. And the Jan 2009 Gaza massacre has functioned perfectly for those forces inside Sudan which wants to strengthen dictatorship inside the country.
See also, http://gaza-peace-n-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/michel-hamas-is-responsible.html on the links between Gaza and DRC conflicts.
Thank you for writing and giving us the links to 2 excellent blogs, Gaza; Peace n’ Freedom and Dissident Voice.
Louis Michel is very typical of many of the ruling class stooges who gain positions promoting seemingly good causes while having very checkered backgrounds themselves. Here in the US we have people like Jimmy Carter and Al Gore doing much the same.
Gore has a long time family history of connections to seedy petro-chemical interests (Occidental Petroleum) and hardly advanced any Green causes at all while Vice President of the US, though today he has built a reputation as being some sort of great neo-environmentalist! And Jimmy Carter, the born again in Jesus Preacher Man, has billed himself as the Grand Peace Mediator for the US ruling class, despite having done so little to advance peace in either the Middle East or Central America-Latin America when he was president of the US.
Lessons here? Look a little beneath the surface images of these people and causes before leaping in with your faith. This is a lesson everybody needs to learn some about in these times of Barack, Man of CHANGE that isn’t.