Reflections by Comrade Fidel
NATO’s Genocidal Role
(Part Three)
On February 23rd, under the title of “The Cynical Danse
Macabre”, I set out:
“The policy of
plundering imposed by the United States and their NATO allies in the Middle
East has gone into a crisis. ”
“Thanks to the
treason committed by Sadat at Camp David, the
Palestinian State has not been able to exist, despite the UN treaties of
November 1947, and Israel became a strong nuclear power, an ally of the United
States and NATO.
The US Military Industrial Complex supplied Israel
with tens of billions of dollars every year as well as to the very Arab States
that were submitted and being humiliated by Israel.
The genie has escaped from the bottle and NATO doesn’t
know how to control it.
They are going to attempt to wrest the most benefits
from the regrettable events in Libya.
Nobody can know at this moment what is happening over there. All the figures and versions, even the most
implausible ones, have been spread by the empire via the mass media, sowing
chaos and disinformation.
It is obvious that inside Libya a civil war is
brewing. Why and how did this
happen? Who will pay the consequences?
Reuters Agency, echoing the opinion of the well-known Nomura Bank of Japan,
stated that oil prices could go beyond any limits:”
“…What
would be the consequences in the midst of the food crisis?
“The main NATO leaders are all worked
up. British Prime Minister David
Cameron, ANSA informed, ‘…admitted in a speech in Kuwait that the western nations made a mistake in
backing non-democratic governments in the Arab world.’.”
“His French colleague Nicolas
Sarkozy stated: ‘The extended brutal and bloody repression of the Libyan
civilian population is disgusting.”
“Italian Chancellor Franco Frattini
stated as ‘believable’ the figure of one thousand dead in Tripoli […] ‘the
tragic numbers shall be a bloodbath’.”
Hillary Clinton stated: “…the
‘bloodbath’ is ‘completely unacceptable’ and ‘it has to stop’…”
“Ban Ki-moon spoke: “‘The use of violence in the country is absolutely unacceptable’.”
“…‘the Security Council will act
according to whatever the international community decides’.”
“‘We are considering a series of options’.”
What Ban Ki-moon is really hoping is that Obama
pronounces the last word.
The president of the United States spoke this
Wednesday afternoon and stated that the Secretary of State would be leaving for
Europe in order to agree with their NATO allies on the measures to be taken. On
his face once could note the opportunity to spar with John McCain, the
far-right-wing Republican senator, pro-Israel Senator Joseph Lieberman from
Connecticut and the leaders of the Tea Party, in order to ensure the Democratic
Party demands.
The empire’s mass media has prepared the terrain for
action. There would be nothing strange about a military intervention in Libya;
besides, with that, Europe would be guaranteed almost two million barrels of
light oil per day, unless before that events would put an end to the leadership
or the life of Gaddafi.
“Anyway, Obama’s
role is rather complicated. What will
the reaction of the Arab and Muslim world be if blood should flow in abundance
in that country as a result of that exploit?
Would NATO intervention in Libya stem the revolutionary tidal wave
surging in Egypt?
In Iraq, the innocent blood of more than a million
Arab citizens was spilt when the country was invaded under false pretexts. ”
“Nobody in the world would ever agree with the deaths
of defenceless civilians in Libya or anywhere else. And I wonder: will the US and NATO apply that
principle on the defenceless civilians that the unmanned Yankee planes and the
soldiers of that organization kill every day in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
It is a cynical danse
macabre.”
While I was meditating upon these events, the debate
scheduled for yesterday, Tuesday, October 25th, began at the United
Nations, on the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial
embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”, something that
has been addressed by the immense majority of the member countries of that
institution over the course of 20 years.
This time, the numerous basic and just reasons – that
for US administrations were nothing more than rhetorical exercises – made clear
as never before the political and moral weakness of the most powerful empire
that has existed, to whose oligarchic interests and insatiable lust for power
and wealth all the inhabitants of the planet have been submitted, including the
people of that very country.
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the
globalized world with its political, economic, technological and military
might.
That truth becomes ever more obvious after the honest
and valiant debates that have been taking place in the last 20 years at the UN,
with the support of the states that one presumes express the will of the
immense majority of the planet’s inhabitants.
Before Bruno’s address, many countries’ organizations
expressed their points of view via one of their members. The first of these was Argentina on behalf of
the Group of 77 and China; Egypt followed on behalf of the Non-Aligned Nations;
Kenya on behalf of the African Union; Belize on behalf of CARICOM; Kazakhstan
on behalf of the Islamic Cooperation Organization; and Uruguay on behalf of
MERCOSUR.
Besides these group-based expressions, China, a
country with growing political and economic clout in the world, India and
Indonesia firmly supported the Resolution through their ambassadors; among the
three of them they represent 2.700 million inhabitants. The ambassadors of the Russian Federation,
Belorussia, South Africa, Algeria, Venezuela and Mexico also spoke. Among the poorest countries of the Caribbean
and Latin America, there were vibrating words of solidarity, such as the ones by
the ambassador of Belize, who spoke on behalf of the Caribbean community, also the
ambassador of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who spoke on behalf of his
country and the one from Bolivia, whose arguments related to solidarity with
our people, despite a blockade that is now lasting 50 years, will be an undying
stimulus for our physicians, educators and scientists.
Nicaragua spoke prior to the vote, to
courageously explain why it would be voting against that treacherous measure.
Also speaking earlier was the United States representative,
to explain the unexplainable. I was sorry for him. It was the role they had
given him.
When the time for the vote arrived, two
countries were absent: Libya and Sweden; three abstained: the Marshall Islands,
Micronesia and Palau; two voted nay: the US and Israel. Adding up those who
voted nay, abstained or were absent: the United States with 313 million
inhabitants; Israel with 7.4 million; Sweden with 9.5 million; Libya with 6.5 million;
Marshall Islands with 67.100; Micronesia, 106.800; Palau with 20.900, the total
comes to 336 million 948 thousand, equivalent to 4.8% of the world’s population
which this month is at 7 billion.
Following voting, to explain their vote, Poland
spoke on behalf of the European Union which, in spite of its close alliance
with the United States and its forced participation in the blockade, is against
that criminal measure.
Afterwards, 17 countries spoke, to resolutely
and decisively explain why they voted for the Resolution against the embargo.
To be continued on Friday the 28th.
Fidel Castro Ruz
October 26, 2011
9:45 p.m.