At some point in my life when I was a small child, I was so
curious about the things that adults were saying to each other, I preferred to
sit with them or near them than play with the other children. The trouble was that
I did not know people spoke in metaphors at times, and so I took everything
they said literally.
One day, the adults were having a discussion about a
subject, whose details escape me now, remembering only that it had to do with
the sense of justice that someone – most likely the Italians or the British –
brought to Ethiopia or maybe
to the entire continent of Africa . A scary
part of the story that someone was telling stuck in mind for a long time, and
made me wish for the wrong thing till I realized the story was a metaphor.
Apparently, the adult was scoffing at the sense of justice
that the ”foreigners” were enforcing and so, he told the story of the hanging
scaffold they erected only to discover that the man they were supposed to hang
was too tall for it. They went to the foreigner in charge and told him what
happened, so he said without a moment of hesitation: no problem, go find
someone that will fit the scaffold and hang him instead. What can be more
convenient than that?
For a long time after that, I wished I would grow so tall
I'll never fit any hanging scaffold because I knew I could never do anything so
bad that I should merit hanging, except that I ran that risk if I remained
small. And so I lived a few more years in sub-Saharan Africa then lived a few
more years in Egypt then came to Canada where I heard day in and day out that
this was a liberal democracy where – unlike some other places in the world –
the rule of law applied and was strictly enforced.
Well, setting aside what I have seen in the courtrooms of
this continent over the past half century, I wish to discuss what America is
doing to the world at large when it comes to the “rule of law.” Even then, I
set aside three cases I discussed previously, and they are (1) the repeal of
the finding that Zionism was a form of racism, (2) the savage pressure that was
brought on the lead judge to water down an earlier finding to the effect that
Israel committed war crimes in Gaza and (3) The Spanish clown they appointed to
investigate Israel's terror attack on a Turkish ship taking relief supplies to
Gaza.
Already, these cases will tell a bad story about America 's inability to police its ranks and
protect itself and others from the agents of World Jewry who were able to use America 's own instruments of power and influence
to change the course of justice or reverse it where it was rendered against Israel
and in favor of someone else. But the medal of shame that will hang around America 's neck for all eternity will be the case
of Palestine where America has intervened by hook and
by crook on several occasions to keep it away from the court of law.
So here we have an America proclaiming itself to be
the champion of the rule of law threatening the Palestinians of severe
consequences if they take their case to the legal body that is the United
Nations after which they will be eligible to go to the International Criminal
Court and have their case adjudicated there.
No, says America
to the Palestinians, the way to have your case adjudicated is to sit with the
Israelis whom we shall keep armed to the teeth while we keep you totally
disarmed. You hear what they will dictate to you, and you either accept or you
remain under occupation while Jewish misfits from America settle in the lands and the
properties they steal from you like they have been doing for nearly half a
century. This is justice administered in the Jewish American style. It is also
a take it or leave it proposition.
As a child I made the mistake of not knowing the difference
between reality and a metaphor. But I grew up to know that the world of
grownups was more complicated than the ear of a child can discern. I then came
to live in this so-called liberal democracy where I was told reality is
strictly implemented as advertised without deviation for any reason at all. I
believed this to be the case for many decades not because I was convinced it
were true but because I so badly wished it were, I fooled myself into believing
it was.