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But first we’ve got to stop being scared …

The diplomatic tsunami is about to hit – this Friday, September 23 to be exact. That’s the date the Palestinians will present their request for admission to the United Nations to the UN Security Council.

Meanwhile, all diplomatic hell has broken out, with the US desperately trying to avoid a situation where it vetoes a proposition that it has clearly endorsed – i.e. the creation of a Palestinian state.

Instead, the US and Israel are asking for a return to “negotiations” as the only way forward – as if the enslaved can negotiate with their oppressors.

I don’t blame the Palestinians one whit for wanting to have their own state, and to get it recognised internationally. In fact, the peace “process” is a complete sham, and obviously always has been.

What is needed is not a “process” but a solution. And if the US insists on pushing its weight around to side with Israel in preventing Palestinian statehood, then they stand exposed as the world’s greatest hypocrites.

How can the US hold up the banner of freedom – even supporting going into Libya to oust Gaddafi, and encouraging the Arab “Spring” – if they are using their diplomatic clout to prevent such a “spring” from occurring in Palestine?

I say shame on all of them – the Europeans included. And why is that master sociopath, Tony Blair, sticking his nose into this – as if he can possibly have anything to say about freedom.

Give the Palestinians their state, for god’s sake. They are living in a open-air prison camp – with no control over their own borders, air space or defence. And while the world cheers the freedom movements in the Arab lands, the so-called champions of freedom are battening down the hatches on the freedom aspirations of an entire population of Palestinians.

It makes me sick to the stomach.

The US President needs to grow a pair of balls and do the right thing – and stand up to the tail wagging the dog.

Addendum:  Sensible Israelis agree - and New York magazine has a cover story entitled: Obama: America’s ‘First Jewish President’

Ever since 1996, when I first got the “itch” to become more free, I’ve witnessed a number of projects to create new countries – all of which have come to naught.

I wonder if this project – the Seasteading Institute – will fare any better? Apparently PayPal founder and early Facebook investor, Peter Thiel, thinks so:

Silicon Valley Billionaire Reveals Plans to Launch ‘Start-up Country’ off San Francisco

This is a very thought-provoking article by Clay Collins that’s worth a read:

8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your Life

Here’s a great quote which is just so applicable to today:

“Civil disobedience, that is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem…”

- Howard Zinn, 1970

Ever since 9/11 we have witnessed how the USA responds to any form of terrorism – via a security lock-down that reduces freedom. In other words, Americans are trading freedom for an elusive “security”.

In an blog post well worth reading, Glenn Greenwald compares how the Norwegians are responding to their own terrorist attack, and notes how determined they are to uphold their own freedoms and not let them be trashed in the name of security.

An Un-American Response to The Oslo Attack

Stefan Molyneux, of Freedomain Radio, tells it like it is:

Looks like Israel, touted as the Middle East’s only democracy, has decided to hand over the title to one or more of the rising “Arab Spring” countries – with their latest piece of anti-freedom legislation.

Bradley Burston, writing for Haaretz, certainly thinks so in his essay:

Israel’s Boycott Legislation: The Quiet Sound of Going Fascist

I wrote the following essay several years ago, but having just read it again, I realise it’s just as relevant now as then. So I offer it again as my personal response to the 4th of July, Independence Day celebrations.

July 4: A Promise Betrayed